What’s In This Episode: Do you work breaks into your weekly work schedule? Where there’s a will, there’s a way, they say. But Jill’s found that the will to take a rest from all the doing in an entrepreneur’s work week is superseded by the desire to succeed. That’s why she’s talking about the longstanding …
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The Invisible Carts
What’s In This Episode: When’s the last time you gave some thought to those micro moments that your customers have when they interact with your business? It’s the little things, the ones often ignored, that can make the biggest difference to your customers. Jill had a related revelation recently all about shopping carts and it …
100 Ways to Try, Try Again
What’s In This Episode: Do you ever wonder what it would take to make 100 episodes of a podcast? This week, we’re celebrating! And by celebrating, Jill means she wants to highlight all the things that have gone so very wrong in the making of this podcast. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and …
Tech Tales of Woe
What’s In This Episode: Do you celebrate technology day in and day out? Sure, it’s changed our lives. But when it comes to our businesses? It’s the worst. You might experience a bit of PTSD as Jill rehashes the many things that can go wrong with the tech that makes our companies go. Lucky for …
Joyce’s Coffee Bump
What’s In This Episode: How hard can it be? That’s a question you might be asking yourself more often than not. It’s a question that the inimitable Joyce Shulman asks herself often, even after decades running successful businesses. She lets you stand in her shoes for a sec to help you see how even the …
Sorry Not Sorry
What’s In This Episode: How are you presenting yourself to people? Because how you do it matters. There’s a lot of ego and fear and guilt and self-doubt and negativity that gets in the way of what you could be putting out there. A lot of us are making mistakes and assumptions that lead us …
Expo Madness
What’s In This Episode: Why is it that the people who believe their suggestions are the best often give the worst advice? And more importantly, why is it that we believe them? Jill walks back the years to the time that she attended the ABC Kids Expo to grow her baby jewelry company. In theory, …
Meet Mister Giggles
What’s In This Episode: The children are our future, right? If that’s the case, it’s time to get pumped about what’s in store for the rest of us because Jill’s three kiddos are budding entrepreneurs who have a lot of ideas. Miss Sunshine, Miss Roses, and Mister Giggles want you to know who they are, …
Sherene’s Big Burn
What’s In This Episode: Do you have contracts in place with all of your clients? You’ll never guess what happens when you decide to work with someone and don’t sign a contract and then they change their tune. (Spoiler alert: it’s not good.) Guest Sherene Strausberg of 87th Street Creative shares her big business blunder …
S.A.F.E. and Sound?
What’s In This Episode: Are you telling people the truth about your entrepreneurial journey? So many of us edit out our bizarre or unique experiences because we think that no one will understand how it all fits together. Jill examines her time spent in South Africa where she co-founded an organization to help empower women …