Help My Awesome Professor Friend Amanda
Note: This is a personal request, and not necessarily about Heart of Business. And yet, at the same time, our businesses are deeply woven into the communities from which they are born. Heart of Business rests deeply into the friends, family and community that surround my wife and I. I wanted to use the Heart […]
An Antidote for the Money Grumblies: The Kitchen Table Financial Summit
Every small business owner has the same worries: where’s the money coming from? Whether you are running a $1.5 million landscaping firm, a $300,000 consulting practice, or you are a self-employed service provider scraping by on less than $40K per year, you probably, at one time or another, have felt financial pinch. It’s true. Most […]
Is Opt-In an Evil Gimmick?
In a post yesterday someone I respect highly, Chris Guillebeau wrote an engaging, passionate post on Why People Hate Marketers. In it, he laid out a whole bunch of things about marketing that I totally agree with: marketing is about trust and building relationships. That using scarcity marketing to push people and manipulate them doesn’t […]
The 7 Necessaries for Filling a Course
One of the members of The Business Oasis was having trouble filling a course and had listed a number of bonuses and other types of things she tried at the last minute to bring up the numbers, without much success. Here’s my reply to her, outlining the seven necessary parts to filling a course. I’ve […]
Spouses Working Together
This morning I found an email from a client who asked this painful question about working together as spouses: We are happy at work together, inspired, having fun, working to help people in a real way. But…there are things to be done at the clinic, big and small things, and from my perspective done well […]
Help! I'm lazy!
A client I heard from recently was complaining about how he wasn’t getting critical money-related tasks done in his business: “My problem is that I’m lazy–I just can’t seem to stay focused or get started on doing the important things.” It’s no wonder he thought this–all the messages coming at us from popular culture tell […]
The True Measure of Money in Your Business
Shiny new cars. Big mansions. The good life. Even if you’re not a particularly material person, it’s easy to be caught by those images and to wonder, “Why don’t I have that? Is there something wrong with me?” It has become especially popular to equate material wealth with spiritual attainment. If you do good, and […]
Escape from Cubicle Nation by my friend Pam Slim
I connected with Pam Slim first through Havi Brooks, and then through getting to know her on Twitter. And, we seemed to hit it off, and so she was kind enough to include me on a list of people to receive a copy of her book to review, Escape from Cubicle Nation–From Corporate Prisoner to […]
Do You Really Need to Offer a Free Download?
People have told you (maybe even me) that it’s really helpful (critical, let’s say) to have a way to keep in touch with folks–blog, email newsletter, something. So, chomp chomp, you bite the bullet and decide to get it going. But you haven’t quite started it yet. And another week goes by. And another month. […]
Stepping Back From the Urgency Ledge
On the verge of facing another day of urgent deadlines and unending tasks, I came across a newspaper article reporting that David Kellerman, Freddie Mac’s recently promoted CFO, was found dead in his basement. He apparently hung himself. A colleague of his was quoted as saying, “‘He was just a nice guy. . . . […]