Death by email is becoming increasingly common. The average business person sends or receives 120 emails per day. Per day! And that number is only going to grow. The challenge with this volume of email every day is commonly referred to as death by email. Specifically, death of performance by email. In a mentoring situation, my partner Ward was listening … Read More
You’re out at a party or function at your kid’s school. You meet someone new and invariably the question comes up ‘So, what do you do?” If you’ve just recently started working for yourself, odds are your reply is “Oh, I’m self-employed” or “I’m a freelancer.” And you leave it at that. If that’s your go-to answer, you’re doing yourself … Read More
One of the big leaps when you are growing a small business is the move from doing everything yourself to hiring people to do some of the work for you. It might be work that you really don’t like doing (like bookkeeping or filing). It might be work that you don’t know how to do or don’t do very well … Read More
