Is your business neat & tidy? Or… could it use some decluttering? Throughout March, we’re talking about streamlining, focusing, and cleaning up our small businesses. Here’s how I’ve done it–with suggestions on how you might do it too!
Both as humans and as business owners, we tell ourselves stories. I might tell myself that no one will pay what I need to charge for my work. You might tell yourself that you can’t hire anyone who will do the work the way you want it to be done. Someone...
What would 11-star service look like? That’s the question that Brian Chesky asked himself to figure out how he and his team at Airbnb needed support hosts to help everyone involved have an exceptional experience. I first heard this idea of 11-star service during...
Look, it’s not too hard to see how your business can (and does) earn $100,000 more in revenue per year. Whether you’re a coach, a financial professional, a trainer, a consultant, or a marketer, the path to that milestone is pretty straight forward. You need to book 10...
I got married this past summer in Glacier National Park. For our honeymoon, we decided to camp out in Glacier so we could take in parts of the park that we generally don’t give ourselves the leisure to enjoy. The day before we set out for camp, my stomach tied itself...
How much time have you spent learning the ins & outs of online business? Go ahead. Take a stab at it. 10 hours? 100 hours? 1,000 hours? More? If you’re like most of the small business owner members we run into here at CoCommercial, you’ve no doubt spent countless...
When small business owners look for support, it’s common to get tangled up in a web of free training, video series, and sales funnels put on by the “biggest names” in small business today. These big names share tidbits of their signature systems with promises of...
The What Works Network is a small business community with a policy against offering small business advice. Sound strange? There's a very good reason for our policy. We firmly believe that there are better ways to trade information, ideas, and know-how about growing...
My first experience with a retreat gave me my first ever migraine headache. Despite being in a spacious house with fantastic women who were ever-so-respectful of personal energy, the sheer demand on my social capacity overwhelmed me. Even as “just” an attendee, it...
Every entrepreneur runs into questions, challenges, obstacles, and snags in their plans--and starts looking for quality business support. It’s a universal law of entrepreneurship and business ownership — it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been in business, you’ll run...
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Tara is a podcaster, small business community leader, strategist, and speaker. She’s been helping small business owners build stronger businesses for over a decade.