Tag Archives: entrepreneurship
HOW TO STOP YOUR CLIENTS FROM BEING DOUCHENOZZLES: PART TWO.
So, you liked How to Stop Your Clients from Being Douchenozzles. You even thought about getting a contract — or you patted yourself on the back for already having one. But that’s not all. What do we put in that contract to make it perfect for your business? Aside from all the legal jargon that’s [...]
THE DOG IN THE BED
Hermione sleeps in my bed. This is, at times, incredibly comforting. Mostly, though, there are twelve pounds of dog snuggled as close as humanly possible to either myself or my husband at all hours of the night. And when she’s snuggled next to one, she’s kicking the other. No bed is big enough for this [...]
ABOUT THOSE FREE OPPORTUNITIES
Just substitute ‘photographer’ for ‘writer.’ If you have a very specific reason for wanting to do free work, great! If it’s being solicited by others who should be paying you, not so great. I nearly peed my pants laughing at this. Many thanks to Jonathan Canlas for putting this video in front of my face.
DOMINATRIXED: POSSIBILITY PARALYSIS
This is a dominatrixed post and assignment. Click here if you missed the first one, you spiffy soul, you. Today, we talk possibilities. Like, you need to get breakfast for the kids while editing client photos while shopping for shoes online while watching the latest health report about the breakfast you’ve just finished feeding your [...]
IMPATIENCE IS EASY.
Impatience is easy. You’ve been in business for three years and you have yet to make a million dollars. To have 10 clients a week. To book a celebrity wedding. To afford a three-month European tour from your earnings. Impatience is easy. You don’t have the right clients. The right branding. The right website, blog, [...]
DOMINATRIXED: BLOGGING
While business-dominatrixing, I found myself giving this assignment again and again. Thus, I’ve decided to start a regular feature on the blog to share the most common dominatrixing assignments I dole out. If you need someone to help you create business goals and then hold you accountable for reaching them, you need a dominatrix. [...]
THE FIRESTARTER SESSIONS
How’s your cashflow and your mojo? Does your vision match your reality? Does your brand match your soul? The Fire Starter Sessions is: an e-book meets video transmission of acumen and love. You: are likely sitting on an empire of content, product, services, and prosperity that needs a spark — or blow torch — to [...]
WHAT DO YOU DO POORLY?
Much of your success in business lies in knowing your strengths. And even more lies in knowing your weaknesses. As an artist, you’ve spent countless hours honing your craft, learning to blog, to update your website, to hand out your business card, to get more clients, to…you name it. You’ve done a lot of learning. [...]
MY GIRL CRUSH.
Meet my girl crush, Danielle LaPorte. I’ve read her blog for a while now, and it’s great. White Hot Truth is nifty. But then — oh, but then! — I saw Danielle’s video called The Metrics of Ease. It was my reward for pre-purchasing The Fire Starter Sessions. I thought it was just going to [...]
WIN A BUSINESS THERAPY SESSION!
So, your biz is having a bit of trouble. It might be your logo, it might be your marketing materials. Your web presence, your lack of focus, your inability to find time in the day to get anything done. Your Twitter addiction. Whatever it is, we’ll talk it out through equal parts e-mail and phone [...]
