If you're new to running a service-based business or just haven't quite hacked the holiday season yet, this one's for you. When I ran a jewelry company, the holidays were an important part of my yearly revenue. But when I first opened up my bookkeeping practice, I was at a loss for how to market [...] The post 3 Holiday Marketing Ideas for Service-Based Businesses appeared first on Solopreneur Profit Coach ..read more

As a small business owner, you have to make a lot of decisions. Most of them are pretty important. Your spending decisions are no different. Especially when you're getting started or working with a small budget, it's important to view your business spending decisions as investments. These investments influence the value you offer your customers, [...] The post Your Ultimate Small-Business Spending Decision Tree appeared first on Solopreneur Profit Coach ..read more

Business growth depends on marketing. It depends on growing your client base, so you can continue to scale your business to the size you want it. Do you know what my number one marketing strategy is? Yep - it's networking! Finding other small business owners to align yourself can be a wonderful thing for your [...] The post How Networking Exponentially Expanded My Small Business (and How it Can Help Yours Too!) appeared first on Solopreneur Profit Coach ..read more

Here are three tips to help you curb overspending or impostor-syndrome-based emotional spending in your business: Create Financial Clarity Oftentimes, an unclear financial situation in your business can contribute to your feelings of impostor syndrome. Whether you're unclear on whether your business is actually profitable or accidentally underpaying yourself, financial murkiness can lead to several [...] The post Don’t Let Impostor Syndrome Fuel Overspending In Your Business appeared first on Solopreneur Profit Coach ..read more

We tend to think of overspending as a personal issue. A scene from Confessions of a Shopaholic might come to mind when you read the word - we think of this behavior as relegated to emotionally-motivated shopping sprees. But the truth is, emotional spending, and the resulting overspending, can easily happen in our business finances [...] The post How Overspending Can Affect Your Small Business appeared first on Solopreneur Profit Coach ..read more

Have you ever considered how your personal money behaviors affect your business? Oversaving and underearning can have drastic effects on your personal finances, but they can also affect your business.  If you are a solopreneur or small business owner, it’s important to consider the ways these behaviors might transfer into how you interact with your [...] The post How Oversaving and Underearning Can Affect Your Business appeared first on Solopreneur Profit Coach ..read more

Are you saving too much money? Is your financial life bracketed by scarcity and insufficient funds? Do you identify as an oversaver or underearner? Then I invite you to take this post as an opportunity to explore your emotions and mindset which may be underlying these financial habits. This post is inspired by Barbara Stanny's [...] The post Underearning and Oversaving: The Mindset Behind these Financial Habits appeared first on Solopreneur Profit Coach ..read more

  A few years ago, I had the chance to speak with a group of businesswomen about their biggest financial mistakes. One that came up almost immediately was pricing products or services too low initially. Women especially struggle with worth and conceptualizing the value of their own labor, whether we're working for an employer or [...] The post Overcome Underearning: How to Avoid Underselling Yourself appeared first on Solopreneur Profit Coach ..read more

Digital marketing is a valuable and sought-after skill, and with more and more businesses trying to reach their audiences online these days, there's usually plenty of clientele. But how do marketing consultants turn bustling businesses into a money systems that sustain and support their lives? In our second installment in Stellar Solopreneurs this month, we're [...] The post Stellar Solopreneurs: How a Digital Marketing Consultant Does Money appeared first on Solopreneur Profit Coach ..read more

Have you ever wondered how an herbalist makes money? This month on the blog, I'm running an interview series called "Stellar Solopreneurs!" We'll hear from a couple different small business owners about their own financial insights and how they set up their money systems for financial success. Today we're hearing from Madeleine (aka Magic), who [...] The post Stellar Solopreneurs: How an Herbalist Does Money appeared first on Solopreneur Profit Coach ..read more