What’s In This Episode: How do you address people when you contact them? If you’re still writing emails that start with “hi there!” and you’re still making phone calls that begin “heyyyyy…how are you?” then I’m gonna argue that you’re missing the boat. This week, we’re gonna up your name game. It’s time to start …
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Frank’s Pedigree Problem
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What’s In This Episode: Do you spend a lot of time on your phone or your laptop when you’re around your kids? We’ve all heard about the parents that throw their phones away when their kids need their attention. But it’s not realistic. How can you get work done and continue to maintain a gorgeous relationship …
The Ugandan Page Turner
What’s In This Episode: How slowly or quickly do you get things done? Everyone works at a different pace. Some folks prefer to take their sweet time. Others speed through their work days without looking back. Jill’s speed-of-lightening pace has gotten her into terrible awful no good very bad blunders, one of which left her …
Josh’s Business Card Blunder
What’s In This Episode: Do you throw the kitchen sink at potential customers and clients when you’re trying to make a sale? It’s time to meet Josh Hall, web designer and founder of In Transit Studios, who once wanted you to know eeeeeeeverything there was to know about him. But why was that his big …
The Sponsorship Slip
What’s In This Episode: Remember slipping up on that pitch you sent to that sponsor that one time? Let Jill help you out of the messes that you might make in the future when pitching to sponsors — and if you haven’t ever pitched a sponsor for your business yet, may this episode be the …
The Weight Watchers Weakness
What’s In This Episode: What do Weight Watchers, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Peloton have in common? To answer that question, Jill wants to introduce you to a few of her friends that are WAY into their hobbies for one very specific reason. It’s a reason that might be the same for you and how you do …
The Vacation Oversight
What’s In This Episode: Do you have too much work to do? Too busy to plan a vacation or even a staycation? Too complicated to coordinate days off or to figure it out with your kids’ crazy schedules? Excuses, excuses. It’s time to stop overlooking the best remedy for all your work woes. We’re not …
Naa Ardua’s Bungled Backup Plan
What’s In This Episode: Why is it that we entrepreneurs often walk on the sunny side of the street? Is it because we’re risk takers? Optimistic? Persistent people who get carried away? Meet employee-turned-entrepreneur Naa Ardua Flohic, founder of Paper Flo Designs, who got herself into a big business back-up plan blunder. She’ll remind you …
The Writer’s Blockade
What’s In This Episode: When you’re running a business, you have to consider a LOT of words. It’s tedious, it’s exhausting, and you could argue that writing for business is its own form of insanity. But when you take Stephen King’s advice to heart and blend it with decades of experience writing newsletters, marketing materials, …