What business decisions would allow you to break out of the mold of production, production, production and into really expressing your unique talents in a more profitable way?
- focusing on bigger relationships…
- creating a more premium product…
- turning services into products…
- reducing redundancies…
- eliminating the trade of money for time…
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Sounds like we’re on the same page, Tara.
I’m hoping to help my readers answer this same question.
Great minds think alike. LOL.
Heather
Indeed, this is where I’ve been coming to Tara! I’m ending up this year in a fabulous place – but it is NOT the place I thought i’d be last January!
Timely for me – I was just in my studio this morning asking myself this very question as I was sitting at my sewing machine feeling like I was a sweat shop slave.
Great thoughts. As a freelance writer who spends part of my time on paid client work and part of my time on writing that doesn’t pay, I’m constantly having to stop what I’m doing and ask myself these types of questions: “What am I doing, and why? How do my priorities line up with the way I spend my time? Where is it all taking me?” (Btw, have you read the book Rework?)
Hi there,
This is kind of off-topic but I have a question. I’m trying to decide whether I should sign up for the 104 wks of blogging books or a month at the Creative Empire. My husband will let me do one but not both this month.
We have a screen printing business, did about $65,800 in local revenue this year, pocket a bit more than a third of that. We haven’t made much effort with online networking (or marketing in general) but I would really like to get better about sharing value on a blog or other social networks. Having a hard time connecting what we do with what the heck to write about and who is our audience, so was leaning towards the blogging stuff. But having the community to bounce ideas off of would be nice too. I don’t have anyone else to talk business with besides hubby!
What do you suggest?