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How to automate your small business: step-by-step guide

You know you could save time and work more efficiently by streamlining and automating aspects of your small business… but how do you go about doing that? We’re breaking it all down for you in this article to teach you exactly how to automate your small business!

Automating and streamlining processes in your business is especially useful for navigating the busy times of your business, or when you’re going on holidays, or even when you have something stressful in your personal life that’s impac...

Client communication tips & best practices

The following is an adapted excerpt from Keep Your Clients. If you’d like more client communication tips and client retention strategies, and to learn exactly what you need to do to KEEP your clients once you’ve got them, then you’re going to love that program! Learn more about the Keep Your Clients e-course.

Once you’ve marketed your business, built a relationship, pitched your services, and been hired by clients, it doesn’t end there. You need to maintain strong, positive client communicati...

Reduce business overwhelm in 15 minutes/day

Business overwhelm is a reality for all of us—regardless of how good you might be at time management. Luckily, there are strategies you can implement to help reduce business overwhelm in your life.

This blog post outlines what you can do, step by step, to reduce business overwhelm. As you’ll see, there are many things you can do… so to keep yourself from getting even more overwhelmed, consider breaking these ideas down by doing just one or two tasks each day!

Each of the tips below can be don...

How to have more productive business meetings

Whether you’re a solopreneur, in a business partnership, or part of a larger team, business meetings matter. Productive business meetings can enable you to have more direction and clarity with your business, improve communication and business relationships, and increase your confidence, motivation, and excitement for moving forward with your business ideas.

The problem? Many business meetings aren’t streamlined enough to be worth it. You’ll know what I’m talking about if you’ve ever sat in a...

What you need to know about GDPR

There’s a lot of information circulating around regarding GDPR, including some confusion and ambiguity about what it means for online business owners.

I did the research on it so you don’t have to—here’s an overview of what you need to know about GDPR:

What is the GDPR?

The GDPR (or General Data Protection Regulation) is a new data privacy regulation that has been debated for the past four years. It was approved and adopted by the European Union in April 2016 and will be enforced on May 25, 2...

5 Business Pitching Mistakes We’ve Made

So you’re getting ready to pitch a prospect—that’s awesome! When you’re preparing to make the pitch, it’s helpful to know some of the most common mistakes to avoid. We’ve made plenty of business pitching mistakes over the years that we don’t want you to have to repeat.

These are the top 5 biggest business pitch mistakes we’ve made, and how you can avoid them: 1) Cold-calling a prospect.

Let’s be real: no one likes to be “sold” to. If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of a cold-call sale...

10 things to know before you pitch clients

So you’re getting ready to go in for the pitch… but are you prepared for pitching a client? There are a few key things you need to know before you pitch clients! 

Getting clients for your freelance business goes something like this: first, you identify your ideal client and build a prospect list. Then, you cultivate relationships with clients, prepare for the pitch, and make the pitch.

(And then there’s a whole follow-up process.)

But many freelancers skip over the preparation part, and leap...

4 Things I Learned While Watching the Masters That Can Be Applied To Your Business

Fun fact, I love golf. Sagan’s spouse “Mr. Science” and I play a round of golf every time he’s back in town and I enjoy watching the professionals play whenever I can get the chance. For those of you who don’t follow golf (and I don’t blame you), the 86th Masters Tournament was on this weekend—and what an amazing show it was.

I won’t bore you with too many details, but it was a star-studded event filled with today’s big names, from Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler to golf legends like Tiger Wo...

How to Build a Prospect List

While you’re marketing your business and starting to pitch to clients, one of the things that can be most helpful for reducing overwhelm and staying focused with your end goals is to create a directory of potential clients. When you know how to build a prospect list, then you can be much more organized in your business management and marketing efforts!

The idea behind creating a prospect directory is that you can brainstorm ideas for all of the clients you would LOVE to work with, and then fr...

S2E12: Behind the Scenes of Juxta Communications (Exclusive Content #2)

In this episode of the Candid Conversations small business podcast, your co-hosts Dan and Sagan share a behind-the-scenes look at how their business, Juxta Communications, has grown over the last 10 months. Dan and Sagan chat about shifting directions in business, tips on managing bookkeeping, what it’s like to have an intern, the importance of recognizing your own strengths and weaknesses, and the hard truth if you’re struggling with quitting your 9 to 5 job.

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