Is Your Offer Too Big or Too Small?
When you craft an offer in your business, do you go for the full meal deal, and offer a 12 month, in-depth program and maybe no one enrolls? Or do you go for a quick 3 session program, but it doesn’t generate much revenue, and after three weeks you have to do it again? It’s […]
When the Divine is Far Away From Your Business
In a recent Spiritual Nourishment call for the Heart of Business Alumni Community, a question came up from one of our members about being too agitated or upset to access the experience of sweetness, peace and wisdom that she was used to in spiritual practice. This can be a real problem when big decisions in […]
Getting Killer Testimonials from the Heart
Testimonials, or as they are sometimes called, case histories, can be amazingly helpful, or bland and boring. Unfortunately, if you just ask clients for testimonials, they often do come out bland, if you get a response at all. It’s not your client’s fault, they your need support! What’s more, clients usually love to be interviewed. […]
Beets, Miserable Meetings and Your Micro Business
This week we have a long-overdue team retreat for Heart of Business. We found a perfect house on AirBnB to rent for three days, and even the two members who can’t be here live will be Skyping in to participate. For two and a half days we’re going to be digging into the project sprawl […]
On Finding Faith in Hard Places…
This article is by our star practitioner Yollana Shore. Yollana co-facilitates our year-long Opening the Moneyflow program and works directly with clients, as well as being an integral part of our team. “I’ll tell you what I need: tips for having faith when I am running low on money and still working my butt off.” […]
Hype, Urgency and the Crisis in Small Business
I like to be positive and upbeat, but I have to warn you that I spent years as an activist on different issues. Being positive is important, but it can also lead to a certain blindness that devolves to a belief that everything is okay. Everything isn’t okay. Our economy is dysfunctional, sick, ailing. No, […]
How to Escape from Glass-Empty Negative Clients
Someone recently asked, “Negative people make me sad. You really have nothing better to do with your time? Many seem stuck almost intentionally as a way of not showing up. I’m really interested in helping them step into a better place. But it takes action on their part. I guess that’s the real question. How […]
Control Versus Do-It-Yourself
I mentioned last week that during a day trip out to the Oregon coast we stopped at Camp 18. Although we missed our scheduled departure of 7am, we did manage to get the kids in the car, and all of us on the road by 8:30am, which was definitely a victory. However, only 20 minutes […]
My Big Business Decision and What It Revealed
It’s been a hard year or so. Back in December of 2010 our then-operations manager, Kate, left to pursue a career in counseling. A fantastic choice, and it left Heart of Business with a skeleton crew. We thought we found a replacement by April. Not so bad, a few months of bridging, and we’re off […]
3 Remedies for Over-Giving to Clients
“Dad, I don’t want this.” I turned and then quickly reached out my hand to take the half-chewed whatever-it-was from my son Sam. He went running out into the yard as I stared at the glistening wet pile of yuck in my hand. Well, it’s better than having him spit it out on the floor. […]