When Is the Right Time To Hire Help?
“Cash flow is really tight, but I’m also overwhelmed. When should I bite the bullet and hire an assistant?” I get this question, or a variation of it, fairly regularly. I’ve employed assistants, virtual or otherwise, for a good part of our 12 year history. More than that, I’ve led Heart of Business to become […]
How to Protect Your Business from Bullies
Prompted by our kids who are getting closer and closer to kindergarten, I’ve been reading Empowering Bystanders In Bullying Prevention by Stan Davis and Julie Davis. One of the central insights from the book that I’m absolutely loving is how it doesn’t help so much to educate either the person who is engaged in bullying […]
Avoiding Spiritual Whiplash
When you start out, you ain’t got nothin’ moving yet. You might be scared, but you also tend to be more open to following the whims of your heart. As your business grows, there is a real need to be more strategic. Simply following the whims of your heart moment to moment changes from being […]
Five Tips to Writing Copy That Converts
Introduction: This is a guest post by Karl Staib of Domino Connection. Karl is a great, open-hearted guy with a lot of experience, so I was happy to be able to publish this here. Enjoy! Lisa’s fingers were resting on her keypad. They didn’t know what direction to go in next. She looked out the […]
An Unexpected Divine Quality
A client came to me recently with a question about confidence. “I’m not feeling as confident as I’d like to be with my clients. Is there a Divine quality for confidence?” If you’re unfamiliar with this idea, the Sufis talk about the Divine having 99 (read: infinite) Divine Names, a.k.a. elemental qualities. These qualities are […]
Musing on Community and Business
One of my private clients, whose business is doing well, in the low six figures annually, suddenly came to me and announced that despite some of her intentions to expand her business, she realized her real need was around community and relationship. She’s not alone. In the middle of Facebook, Twitter, and every other form […]
The Cold, Iced Water of Networking
Selling is what happens after someone gets to know you and your business, which I’ve been talking about the last couple of weeks. But, before the selling comes actually connecting with other people. There’s a reason that networking has a bad rap. I can’t imagine anything less comfortable than meeting in a cold hotel room […]
Video – Where Collaboration Undermines Selling
Before we get into it, I wanted to remind you that today, April 24, I’m holding a live call on the topic of Sacred Selling. I’m honored and humbled because over 800 people are already registered for it! It’s about increasing your pricing resonance and it’s about dealing with your anxiety and neediness… because it’s […]
The Video for the Second Lesson
This is about our Sacred Selling no-cost learning series. You can register for the learning series here. As you receive today’s lesson yours truly and the entire Heart of Business team are in a 3-day team retreat, Thursday through Saturday. We started the habit of taking this time every six months because of how nourishing […]
Is Everything Really Selling?
Intro: I had written the article below before hearing about the attacks at the Boston Marathon on Monday. I pray for all of those, all of us, who are caught up in the storm of violence and grief everywhere in the world, and pray for healing, for peace, for justice. May all people find ease, […]