Stop Treating Your Business Like a Hobby: 5 Starter Steps for Getting Real
I call it “The Empire Mentality.” What it means is that you act like the owner of a major empire even before you have the clients or the bank account to prove it. And guess what? When you take your business seriously – miraculously, so […]
Are you ashamed of wanting more money?
Are you ashamed of wanting money? Money is a highly charged topic. I’m standing in front of our I’m Done wall that we had at our Uplevel Your Business event last June. This is where people wrote down what they’re no longer willing to tolerate as […]
On Raising Your Prices: 3 Pricing Strategies to Live By
Raising your prices can be scary. (We determined that in the last article.) So, here are three of my time-tested strategies for when you decide you’re ready to stop simply getting by each month in your business”¦ Strategy #1 - Christine’s Law of “Stretch, Don’t Splatter.” […]
The thing about business success is that you don’t have to become someone else. You don’t have to be manipulative. If you’re a woman, you don’t have to grow a pair. You get to be WHO YOU ARE. It’s...
[VIDEO] You Don’t Have Change Who You Are to Be Successful in Business
The thing about business success is that you don’t have to become someone else. You don’t have to be manipulative. If you’re a woman, you don’t have to grow a pair. You get to be WHO YOU ARE. It’s just that you have to know […]
The Awareness Link: 7 Focus Areas that Create Success
Whether you like it or not, your business is about YOU. Your success is about your awareness. And once you understand that nothing is separate from you – then you master success. This is not about striving for perpetual meditative bliss. This is about living […]
Are you Duct-Taping your Business Together?
At first, it’s kind of fun. You offer this thing you do. Someone buys it. A business is born. Then you try something else. That works too. Your business grows. After a while, there’s no time to plan because things are rolling along too quickly. […]
5 Keys to a Successful Product Launch
If you have a product, the worst thing you can do is plunk it down on your website and hope your ideal client will be compelled to hit the “buy” button. And if you’ve read anything about marketing in the last few years, then you […]
Your Clock or Your Cash: How to Find your REAL Value
Consider this scene at the post office”¦ A man haggles with the postal clerk to see how many brochures he can stuff into his envelope before the postage price jumps to the next level. When he realizes that the next level is only 17 cents […]
It Might Be Time to Take a Chance on Yourself If”¦
There are two kinds of people. First, you’ve got the toe-dippers. These are the ones who stand at the edge of the water. The tip of their toe tells them it’s too cold. They wait to see if there might be weird fish in this […]
Job Security or Self-Security? What Real Risk Looks Like These Days
One of the scariest things I ever did was quit my first (and only) “real” job so I could begin my own brand of creative work in the world. I became – gasp! – self-employed. I was warned of the risks. I was told I’d […]