Feel like you’ve run out of gas, that starting a business is burning you out? Are you finding yourself avoiding the important things that need to get done in your business? If you’re experiencing feelings of self-doubt, burn-out, apathy, lazin

SBX 33: How To Keep Focused On The Main Thing For Your Business

Jul 15th, 2014 37m 51s

Ever feel like you’re working your ass off in your business but when you look back, you feel like you still didn’t accomplish much? Maybe your not focusing on the right things. If you own your own business, you know that being super busy isn’t

SBX 32: Advanced Website Strategies To Grow Your Business

Jul 6th, 2014 49m 12s

Website not driving leads like you thought it would? Maybe you’re focusing on the wrong things. Every business owner dreams of having a website that prints money for their business, one that just keeps sending leads over and over again. Yeah,

SBX 31: When Is It Time To Pivot Your Business

May 27th, 2014 38m 39s

Every business owner eventually arrives at a crossroads with their business where they have to make some tough decisions. Things may not be going as planned and you feel like you’re just spinning your wheels. So do you keep plugging along and

SBX29: Evolution Of Your Thing

May 12th, 2014 54m 30s

The itch to become a business owner happens seemingly out of nowhere. You’re standing in line at Wal-Mart. You’re daydreaming in the fast lane on the highway while other (irritated) drivers pass you on the right. Or you’re in the world’s incuba

SBX 28: Building Owner Brands

May 4th, 2014 42m 19s

Social media… it is NOT just for your business. In an age of information and CEO celebrity-hood, customers want to know a little something about the owner of your company (RE: you). It doesn’t matter if you’re an offline owner, an online owne

SBX 27: 5 Website Mistakes That Are Killing Your Conversions

Apr 28th, 2014 40m 13s

When it comes to generating leads and sales for your business, is your website less like Ron Popeil and more like Willy Loman? Well, don’t feel bad if it is, most business websites are setup to fail from the start. Your website does not have yo

SBX 26: Effortless Selling, How To Sell To Today’s Consumer

Apr 21st, 2014 42m 47s

Selling just isn’t what it used to be. Many business owners miss the good old days of straight forward selling, where you give your canned sales pitch, the customer counters, you give them a small discount and a pat on the back……and boom! Dea

SBX 25: How To Make Your Business Standout From The Crowd

Apr 13th, 2014 58m 57s

You’re rocking out. Building your business. Dreaming. Planning. Dreaming some more. And then it happens. You discover another business doing what you’re doing. Competition happens, sure. But THIS other business is further along than you

SBX 24: How To Not Let Your Business Get In The Way Of Your Life

Apr 7th, 2014 28m 24s

Is your business taking over your life? Starting your own business is nothing like working for someone else. When you have a job, you clock in every morning and clock out at the end of the day. Both physically and mentally. With your own bus

SBX 23: How To Find The Right Business Partner

Apr 1st, 2014 34m 50s

The only thing that might be uglier than a divorce is a business partnership gone bad. Business partnerships can be awesome. Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak, Warren Buffet & Charlie Munger, Mike Monroe & Gary Shouldis and Darryl Hall & John Oats ar

SBX 22: Twitter Success In Under 15 Minutes a Day

Mar 23rd, 2014 40m 36s

So much social media, so little time! Many business owners believe that if they can’t do EVERYTHING, they shouldn’t even try to do SOMETHING. Which is why we hunted down small business owner and Twitter expert, Mr. Josh King. As a small busi

SBX 21: How To Validate Your Business Idea

Mar 16th, 2014 43m 30s

Has anyone ever told you, “you’re so great at (insert skill), you should start a business!” These words, though innocent, have paved the road to more failed business ventures than any recession, depression or economic downturn ever has. Encoura

SBX 20: How to Get Customers Coming to YOU

Mar 9th, 2014 33m 12s

The hardest part of being a business owner is getting people who need you to notice you. And then, once they notice you, getting them to overcome their natural skepticism and buyers remorse to purchase from you. *Sigh* What if there was a wa

SBX 19: How To Get Started In Ecommerce

Mar 2nd, 2014 39m 3s

Have you always wanted to create an eCommerce store for your business but don’t know where to start? Creating an Ecommerce store, as a stand alone store or to supplement your brick and mortar, can be a great way for a local business to create a

SBX 18 – The Upsell: Getting Your Customers To Buy More Stuff

Feb 23rd, 2014 33m 7s

Congratulations, you made a sale! But what if it meant more than a monetary transaction that ensured your business could stay open for 12 minutes longer? What if, instead of saying “you made a sale,” we instead suggested “you solved a problem

SBX17 – How To Productize Your Service And Get Paid Faster

Feb 16th, 2014 33m 9s

Are you a service professional having a hard time getting paid by your customers? Is cash flow always an issue? This is something that plagues many freelancers and service professionals. Getting paid on time. You can have a successful business

SBX 16: Cut Down On Administrative Tasks And Focus On Growing Your Business

Feb 10th, 2014 35m 46s

In the beginning stages of owning a small business, you’re going to be doing everything yourself. Sorry, that’s just the way it is. As the owner, however, there are places where your time is better spent: things that please customers, things t

SBX 15: Creating A Killer Business Blog

Feb 7th, 2014 39m 51s

Every business owner has been told by at least a few people that they need to have a blog. They tell them a blog will make you a leader in your field, will drive tons of traffic to your website and will increase revenues 10 times over. Well,

SBX 14: How Your Business Can Work With Charities

Jan 28th, 2014 40m 34s

Serving customers is great. But as business owners we have the opportunity to do even more for causes, communities, and people the world-over. Almost everybody nowadays has a favorite charity (or two, or five) and the question becomes: how ca

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