Use balance sheet principles to map your business journey. — The story of your business is told on the balance sheet. Reporting the assets, liabilities, and equity held at a given point in time (or at different time intervals) can help you better understand the means available to you for creating future profits, life satisfaction and happiness. Most entrepreneurs move…

What it is, what it means, and how to achieve it. — Last week, I came across someone who defined thought leadership as “sharing your thoughts” without apologizing so you can make more money. However, true thought leadership has much greater substance than that. While there often is a correlation with profitability in one’s business, you don’t have to be a thought…

And yes, you’ll go further much faster if you hire one! — Sometimes I’m a business coach. I say “sometimes” because it’s not the only way I spend my time for money. In the tens of thousands of hours I’ve occupied that particular role, I’ve noticed a thing or two I feel compelled to bring to your attention. First, a good coach…

How you spend your days is how you spend your life. — Have you thought about how much busy work is really costing you? We all have things about our work we enjoy doing and do very well. Then there are those tasks we just can’t stand or simply suck at. It isn’t unusual, when first starting out, to have to do…

Without revenue, your business has no future. — It’s a well-known fact that stress can kill you. Not just your business. You. Owning your own business is a stressful undertaking on so many levels. Even more so when you’re dealing with revenue-related stress. A situation made far worse when you have people depending on you for a livelihood…

Combine with imagination for greater business success. — Everyone is born with latent or underutilized genius that they can learn to identify and use to accelerate business results with less effort and anxiety. Sadly, many business owners remain unaware of or disconnected from their own genius, but that can be easily changed. The source of genius that drives…

Choosing where and how to compete. — With many problems to be solved, the possibilities for your business in a connected world are endless. Complex markets, intense competition, expectant clients and customers, and demanding stakeholders require more intelligent digital marketing. Modern marketers need deeper logic and more creativity to succeed amidst complexity and make sense of uncertain…

These tips help keep your list happy to hear from you. — We’re all familiar with the traditional measure of business success being s/he who makes the most sales in a given time frame wins. But digital marketing means to sell to one person who needs or wants what you offer, you interrupt hundreds of others who don’t. Each day my inbox…

And why you don’t want to be that person! — The phrase “boss babe,” and similar titles like “girl boss,” “boss bitch,” “lady boss”, “sexy boss,” “fempreneur,” “mompreneur” and “SheEO” devalue the idea of women being powerful in a business context. We don’t see men marketing themselves on social media with hashtags like #boyboss. Just being a man is often…