Business Advice
How To Find Local Businesses and Services After You Move
If your business is going to move, I have some advice from my move to San Antonio. After all, being a digital business doesn’t exclude shopping locally. Moving is hard and also easy. Well, let’s stick with “hard” for now. There’s a lot of change which is freeing, but change means you need new doctors,…
Read MoreSmall Business Marketing in a GoogleFace World — A Conversation with Rand Fishkin
In my conversation with Rand Fishkin, we talked about the 30,000-foot view of marketing and advertising. Google and Facebook are the duopolies, that’s true. But small businesses don’t have to lose. With marketing flywheels, influence marketing, and audience insight you can get ahead. Why? Venture Capital takes advantage of our tax system which makes advertising…
Read MoreDid Your Audience Change Or Did You?
You feel it. It’s a sense of something changing. You can’t quite put your finger on it but it’s there. It’s eluding you. Maybe your audience is changing. Maybe you’re not quite keeping up with the trends. You already missed Snapchat and TikTok. Do you need to set up a Discord server? Maybe your audience…
Read MoreAre You Determined to Be a Freelancer? Start Today.
There are so many articles about how to become a freelancer or how to start. It’s crazy. We read stories from people like Ryan Robinson who kept his day job until his freelancing earned six figures. SIX. FIGURES. Swoon. I’m not even close to six figures. “I grew my freelance business to over six figures in…
Read MoreTime Blocking Tips – Protect Your Value
If you’re curious about how I approach time blocking this is it. Establish Boundaries Audit Your Time Be Self Aware “Not all hours are equal.” Chris Lema After you block your time, stick to it. It doesn’t matter which tool or app you use. The best tool is the one that you consistently use. Choose…
Read More