How we attract more clients - the right clients, the ones that make us excited to do our work and pay us accordingly - requires honest internal searching as if you were looking to seriously date someone. Read my “parable of early aughts dating”

As solo-preneurs, we have to feel passionately and confidently about our perspectives otherwise we wouldn't have gone into business for ourselves.  But, that can leave us vulnerable to ourselves as well. 

No matter how you make your living today, tomorrow you may need another option. Entrepreneurship can provide additional income sources and decrease reliance on a single job. And in a fluctuating economy (isn't that putting it diplomatically?) you owe it to yourself and your family to be developing the only professional asset you have some control over, which is you! For now it's a side hustle or a passion project.  Tomorrow? Primary revenue stream. Can you afford NOT to have a side hustle?

Have you ever found yourself caught in the unrelenting grip of perfectionism? Does the need to present as flawlessly as possible hold you back from taking action in your business? If so, you definitely aren't alone. As you navigate the world of entrepreneurship, though, remember this little phrase: progress over perfection! My husband calls it “living the B+ life”

Your professional brand is more than colors and fonts! Your brand is about your interactions with clients, partners, and the public. It's what people say about you when you aren't in the room and what people see and read about you online. Consistency in all these channels will help build trust as you grow your audience.

I know the dream is that someone from The New York Times will (somehow) find your product / class / system / story online, send you an email for an interview, and make you internationally famous and wealthy thereafter. However…'tis highly unlikely.