Have you heard, if you want to grow your business and do it fast you must outsource?

Outsource, outsource, outsource!

That’s all I have been hearing lately. Unfortunately, this advice is often easier said than done. So, how can you grow a business when you’re not in position to outsource the work?

In today’s video, learn which areas to focus on in three different industries, along with concrete examples for surprising impact on business growth.

Creative stiletto entrepreneurs have options for business growth that goes outside the traditional business lines.  Think licensing deals, workbooks and more way of adding additional or supplemental products to your core offer to increase your sale amount.

Here’s what covered:

• Options for growth beyond outsourcing.

• A powerful and necessary strategy that stirs up fear and self-worth issues for a lot of female business owners.

• One of the most underrated and overlooked strategies to use with existing buyer...

Looking for blog post ideas? Well I’ve got you covered.

As I'm talking to more and more new women entrepreneurs many have shared with me they get stuck on ideas for blog content to share with their followers. That’s why I am excited about today’s topic.  I’m covering a few tips on how to quickly create meaningful content.

Tip One: Use Embedded Reactor

One tip you might want to use is called an embedder reactor. In order to do this you find a video from an authority figure that has a lot of views on it, and then you just simply react to it. Insert your comments by reacting to what they said. Make sure you’re giving credit to wherever you’re getting the video from, whomever the authority is that you’re using. Check out how we did it here. And Still I Rise

Tip Two: Use a Stat Roundup

A stat roundup is when you find different stats on one topic and present that information in one uniform blog post.

Tip Three: The Interview

When stuck always use the interview. My favorite techn...

Shout out to google for the epic video tribute I saw when starting my web search on the day commemorating Maya Angelou’s 90th birthday.

So many emotions welled up and spilled over when reading the words of the poem. It expresses, self-respect, confidence, inner strength, belief in self and unrelenting determination.

As I look at the cards I have been dealt:

•   Being a black woman in America
•   A child of domestic violence
•   A person affected by mental illness

I share with you the wisdom that this poem has whispered to me from when I first read it in elementary school and through the years as a black woman and an entrepreneur.  

Regardless of what people say, bricks they throw or “situations” that occur you can rise above it.

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Know your value, know your worth....

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause ...

Getting Big Stuff Done When Life Get Hectic: Your Ideal Work Day

Can I get a few more hours in the day? Ever caught yourself asking that question?

One of the most important skills I've learned was time management by designing your ideal work day. That’s what we’re going to talk about today.

You might ask, “Well, what’s my ideal work day? How do I even know what my ideal work day looks like?”

CREATE SMART GOALS

I’ve spoken before about setting smart goals. The first thing you want to do is create your SMART goal in order to figure out how to design your ideal work day. When creating smart goals it has to be specific; Measurable, Attainable; Realistic; and Timed. {Link to that blog post is here.}

My foundation to help you be as productive as, possible is based on principles outlined in Steven R.Covey’s book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Your life has all kinds of responsibilities and task that need to get done each day. Some of them are critica...

WHAT STOPS YOU FROM BEING MOTIVATED – AND HOW TO FIX IT

How many times have you found yourself saying one of the following statements? 
 
I’m not feeling this, it’s not fun, and I don't like it.  I don't enjoy it anymore. Why do I even get myself into this? How do I get out of it? 

 
Let’s talk about what to do when you’re no longer feeling motivated, when all the motivation seems to have left you… 
 
This happens to all of us, right? There's some point of time when we feel unmotivated, whether it's from burnout, constantly putting out different fires that keep popping up and you’re tired from having to keep dealing with the headaches of day-to-day task. Maybe you feel like you’re working yourself to the bone and you’re not seeing the desired results.  
 
The day I met my husband, years ago I was feeling all the above. A few days before, I told a friend that we would go out to the Jazz Cafe and have some much-needed fun. Well, I felt like going out earlier that day, but by the time night ca...

How To Create S.M.A.R.T Goals
 

Ever feel like you are working hard but going NOwhere, fast? Yep, I’ve been there and done that but decided not to get the T-shirt!

There are so many topics I want to touch on to help you thrive in 2018 - starting with how to set SMART Goals.

In this video, you’ll hear about the simple but impactful strategy that has helped me create, achieve and evaluate my goals year after year.

If you’re like me you have a whole lot of ideas and dreams. Plus, they are amazing!  I invite you to turn your dreams that matter the most to SMART goals and then into reality in this video.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

5 Step process to making goals that stick.

• Specific (simple, sensible, significant).
  
  
• Measurable (meaningful, motivating).
  
  
• Action Oriented (agreed, attainable).
  
  
• Realistic (reasonable, relevant and resourced, results-based).
  
  
• Time Bound (time-based, time limited, time/cost limited, timely, time-sensitive).

I really hope you enjoy this fi...