Pamela Slim's Blog, page 4
November 1, 2022
How to create a strong marketing plan for the new year
Putting together a marketing plan can feel like an overwhelming exercise when you are looking forward to a new year. One planning design principle I work with is to frame a year with some big picture parameters, then plan your year in detail one quarter at a time. Besides knowing the big building blocks of […]
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October 19, 2022
The BOSS Shift: Embracing Self-Care as a System
For many professionals, corporate and entrepreneur alike, self-care has become yet another box to check-off on a to-do list. But self-care is so important to sustaining personal wellbeing and the success of the business that it deserves to be prioritized and savored. To kick off season two of The Widest Net Podcast, host Pamela Slim […]
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October 2, 2022
4 Power Moves to Make Your Q4 Sing
By some miracle of what feels like twisting of the time/space continuum, we find ourselves once more in the final quarter of the calendar year 2022 (I swear it was just April!). Here in the Northern Hemisphere, Fall always brings a cold breeze, fireplace weather, and the chance to bring back those fabulous scarves you […]
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September 28, 2022
The Widest Net Season One – It’s a Wrap!
As the first season of The Widest Net Podcast comes to a close, host Pamela Slim discusses lessons learned, recounts topic and guest highlights, recognizes the podcast marketing and production teams, and provides a glimpse into what to look forward to as the next season of The Widest Net launches in just a few weeks. […]
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September 14, 2022
Creating Fruitful Business Partnerships
In this episode of The Widest Net Podcast Pam talks to Charlie Gilkey, CEO of Productive Flourishing, where we diagnose our own 3-year partnership and the elements that lead to its success. Partnering with other business professionals who have complementary values and skills can open up new, lucrative opportunities for business owners. But partnership […]
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September 9, 2022
5 Mindset habits to grow your business
A few years ago, I got a text from a dear friend who said “Have you seen this?” I opened the message and saw a screen shot of a few pages of a (to be unnamed) New York Times bestselling author’s new book that featured copy from a short class I taught about entrepreneur mindset […]
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September 1, 2022
The Magic of Retreats
As I am preparing for our first in-person retreat in 3 years, I was reflecting on the many profound stories and experiences that have come out of my retreats in the past. Here are their stories (I feel like I should queue the sound from Law and Order, minus the mayhem!). Sedona Writer’s Retreat After […]
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July 9, 2021
What personal branding experts get wrong
There is a lot of personal branding advice encouraging business owners to stand up, stand out and show how they are the best, brightest and most fabulous person to work with on the Internet. “Show yourself!,” they say. “Position yourself as the expert!” There is nothing wrong with showing up on social media. For some […]
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May 19, 2021
How to recalibrate your business after a major creative effort
After completing a big, long creative project, when you scan the final draft of a writing project or the layout of a big presentation and finally hit “SEND,” there is a feeling of elation accompanied by a big exhale. Holding space for such a big idea takes up a lot of time, energy and attention. […]
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December 16, 2020
Get yourself ready to create, contribute, affect and impact in 2021
When I was writing Body of Work in 2013, I didn’t realize how much it would impact my point of view about the nature of work in general. What I learned from that book is that while joy is a state available to us no matter what we are doing (or not doing!), true impact and contribution […]
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