Do You Dream of Becoming an Entrepreneur?

Do You Dream of Becoming an Entrepreneur?

Like most other kids, I had career dreams and aspirations growing up, but becoming an entrepreneur wasn’t actively among them. I don’t think I even heard the word entrepreneur when I was a child. When I was almost 12, I started babysitting to earn pocket money. Babysitting didn’t pay particularly well, and I found myself…

6 Ways to Make Time to Enjoy the Holidays

6 Ways to Make Time to Enjoy the Holidays

This time of year can be crazy busy, especially for entrepreneurs.  It’s easy to get so wrapped up in filling orders, serving customers, holiday shopping, family obligations, and planning for the New Year that all the fun and meaning of the winter holidays, including Christmas and Hanukkah begin to seem like an impossible chore. It’s…

Celebrate Relationships with Creative Holiday Greetings
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Celebrate Relationships with Creative Holiday Greetings

How will you wish your friends, family, and customers a happy holiday this year? Have you thought about it—or are holiday cards just an old-fashioned holdover from the last century? You can send a printed holiday card by traditional snail mail. It’s a time-honored tradition, more than a hundred years old. Sending a creative holiday…

How to Be Successful in Your Business & Still Have a Life
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How to Be Successful in Your Business & Still Have a Life

One of the biggest challenges for most entrepreneurs, especially when first starting out, is how to be successful in your business & still have a life. Balance is not always a skill that comes easily when we are following our dreams and building businesses. I used to own a retail photography studio. For the last…

5 Ways to Reduce Stress and Increase Productivity

5 Ways to Reduce Stress and Increase Productivity

Do you have too much to do and not enough time to do it all? Are you constantly overworked and overstressed? Does it feel like you just can’t ever catch up? There is a solution—and it doesn’t involve adding more hours to your day or cloning yourself. The real solution is to quit overworking yourself…

The 3 Essential Support Networks Every Entrepreneur Needs

The 3 Essential Support Networks Every Entrepreneur Needs

Entrepreneurship can be a challenging life. Many entrepreneurs, especially those just starting out, often work alone. While being your own boss is often one of the chief attractions of entrepreneurship, every entrepreneur needs some support to help them on their path to success.  Having a support network can not only keep from feeling (and being)…

How to Be a Successful Networker

How to Be a Successful Networker

Networking is an essential in the business world. While you can be successful without making networking your second career, it is virtually impossible to be successful in business, especially if you have customers of any kind (and what business doesn’t?) if you don’t network. Becoming a successful networker doesn’t take any special skills or talent,…