Introducing the 15 Frameworks of Successful Self-Employed Professionals

A framework is a way of thinking, a point-of-view, a perspective on something. Here are the 15 frameworks of the successfully self-employed professional. You'll find some of these to be radical and foreign. Don't let that stop you! Try them on; see what you learn from them.

Blowing Your Own Horn - A Key Marketing Strategy for Small Business

Successful solo entrepreneurs spend quite a bit of time building and expanding their networks. We may meet face to face, over the telephone or online. We exchange pleasantries, information, referrals or resources and in doing so, strengthen the bonds with individuals and the whole organization. What is not quite as common in our exchanges is the use of a personal or business success story.

Small Business Savvy: Reaching Key Big Business Decision Makers

As a solo entrepreneur or small business owner, one of our key challenges can be reaching key decision makers in larger companies. Getting to the right person who can seal the deal can be a frustrating experience, especially if you don’t have a game plan. Here are three ways to connect with the right people.

Making Assumptions - A Critical Communication Mistake In Business And In Your Personal Life!

Communication is a critical factor in building professional and personal relationships. So often misunderstandings, conflicts and mis-connections arise around communication. Learn one of the critical factors that can make or break a conversation in an instant.

Keys to Feeling Powerful In An Uncertain World

Life is full of uncertainty and unpredictability. Learn concrete ways to feel more in control of your life regardless of your life situations at home or at work!

Marketing Messages: Your 10 Most Important Business Principles

As Solo Entrepreneurs we use two basic strategies for marketing: writing and speaking. Rose Hill explains why it is important to create a list of your 10 Most Important Business Principles (MIBP) and utilize them in your marketing efforts . Without them, she claims your marketing efforts will be too diffuse to really grab the attention of your intended ideal clients.

Leadership and Followership in a Team Setting

As a member of a team, leaders and followers are needed to keep the team running smoothly. Rose Hill analyzes the need for both leaders and follows and how important it is for solo entrepreneurs to step into both roles as when necessary and appropriate.

Being a Solo Practitioner is Not Easy

There are many entrepreneurs out there who are quite good at what they do, but often my hat goes off to the solo practitioner who is making it all come together. Why you ask? Well simple really; being a Solo Practitioner at anything well that is not easy. Why do people go solo?

Preparing to Buy a Business

This article discusses the process of buying a business

Pricing Your Artwork - What To Do, What To Do

Do you know the value of your work and how to price it? Pricing is actually not that difficult. Let me make it simple and easy. First-

Mastermind Alliances to Further Your Career

Every business leader needs to develop his or her own Mastermind Alliance. The important benefits received are several, including synergistic solution problem solving, synergistic networking and a confidential sounding board that too many executives today do not enjoy.

Solo Professional Systems and Logistic Consultants

Every corporation wants to make more profits and that means it needs to make more sales and become more efficient to reduce costs. On the sales side of things there are 5:1 more consultants than on the streamlining side of efficiency.

Get Your Invention Product Out There On A Shoe-string Budget The Henry Ford Way

Henry Ford knew a thing or two about inventions. Although he had very little formal education, there were those who called him a genius (they meant an invention genius). So there is a lot any inventor can learn from the life of Henry Ford that can end up being pretty useful, even today.