How to Choose a Book Topic That Gets You Seen, Chosen and Well Paid

aka. How To Choose a Book Topic for IMPACTFUL Pros – Coaches, Trainers, Consultants & Independent Service Professionals   Most people who want to write a book don’t get stuck on writing. They get stuck much earlier. They get stuck at the question…  ...

My Favorite Business Growth Strategy for Coaches, Trainers, Consultants & Independent Service Professionals

  aka The Simpler Path to Becoming Seen, Chosen and Well Paid for Your Expertise     “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” — Rumi I hate when people make me choose one. The question inevitably comes, usually in a tone of slight urgency:...

Business Thought Experiment #8 – Why Passion Is Not the Starting Point to Choose Your “Business Thing”

  "Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar." [“Traveler, there is no path; the path is made by walking”]  — Antonio Machado   I see it so often. Brilliant coaches, trainers, consultants, and independent service professionals frozen in business...

Business Thought Experiment #7 – Confidence in Business, Impact and the Next Obvious Step

    A coach I deeply respect recently asked a simple question: What is confidence? Rather than answer it intellectually, I decided to spend a month looking in that direction. What I discovered surprised me.   The more I looked, the less confidence...

Business Thought Experiment #6 – What Impact Remains When AI Can Do Almost Everything

  A question was posed recently that stayed with me: What impact can we have as human beings… that artificial intelligence cannot?   I’ve been sitting with that question. And I want to start from a place of non-fear. Because right now, there’s a lot of noise...

Getting New Clients Online – 8 Tricky Truths

Getting New Clients Online – 8 Tricky Truths

If you are an independent professional, and expert, an entrepreneur you know that online is not the future: it is the present. You might be seeing your colleagues around you getting great results from their online efforts and wonder… how does it really work? When I...

Growing A Small Business – Overwhelmed Or Overloaded?

Growing A Small Business – Overwhelmed Or Overloaded?

One of the biggest challenges for modern professionals, experts and entrepreneurs when growing their business seems to be a feeling of overwhelm. There is so much they could be doing and only 24 hours in a day. They tend to get caught in worry and anxiety about the...

You paid… how much?

You paid… how much?

The keys to charge premium prices and have people pay them happily and come back for more. “You paid how much… for a piece of sponge?” were the exact words my husband uttered when he mistakenly opened an Amazon brown box that contained a small makeup sponge. And yes....

Growing Your Business – Is Your Marketing Broken?

Growing Your Business – Is Your Marketing Broken?

Have you been feeling that although you’re doing everything you are told to do your marketing efforts are well… a lot of efforts for not so many results? You’re not alone in this feeling. It is one of the concerns and question that I get the most from modern experts...

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