July 30, 2024

Avoid Price Increase Agony: How to Easily Raise Your Rates

July 30, 2024/ Maggie Karshner

Once upon a time, you decided on rates for your business. They made sense at that time. But now, you're not sure they're working for you anymore. Is it time to raise prices? What should you raise them to? How do you roll out these new rates? This article is for folks like you: business owners who are struggling with changing their rates. You don't know how to raise your rates and want to confidently decide upon and implement a new price. Read on as I clarify the process. You'll get instructions on each step so that you can confidently make an increase in your rates.

May 23, 2023

How to Craft an Effective Elevator Speech for Your Business

May 23, 2023/ Maggie Karshner

How would an elevator speech help your business? This is a blog article for authentic business owners who are struggling to talk about their businesses in a meaningful way. Here I'll illuminate the key objectives of an elevator speech and how it can help you talk about your business. You'll discover how a good elevator speech will help you to promote your business authentically. Authentic promotion is possible whether it's a meeting with investors or a spontaneous casual interaction.

November 19, 2020

How to Shift Internally to Make the Best Decisions

November 19, 2020/ Maggie Karshner

Decision making is a challenge for anyone, but the stakes are the highest for business owners. If you're tired of fretting, stressing, and wondering if you made the right choice, I have a solution. It's not a quick fix, but by turning inwards you can find your own repository of wisdom. Read on to learn how to take the first step!

September 21, 2020

How to Conquer Simple Strong Website Analytics

September 21, 2020/ Maggie Karshner

Website analytics can be nebulous and overwhelming. In this article, I hone in on what's most important for self-employed business owners: understandable and useful data! Conquer your analytics with this simple strategy.

July 18, 2019

Knock Networking Out of the Park

July 18, 2019/ Maggie Karshner

If you’re striving to make your networking efforts even more impactful, then this is the blog post for you! Learn how to improve the memorability and accuracy of your networking efforts.

April 29, 2019

An Unexpected Tool for Living Your Best Life

April 29, 2019/ Maggie Karshner

Seeing as this blog is mostly about starting a self-employed business, I can see how an article on meditation might seem off topic. In actuality, I’ve found that meditation is a vital tool as a business owner. Read on to see if I can get you on the meditation bandwagon!

August 24, 2017

How to Get Yourself to Do Things You Don't Want to Do

August 24, 2017/ Maggie Karshner

We all have things that must get done but that we don't really enjoy doing. This is even more true for self-employed business owners. Here are three strategies I employ to help me do things I don't want to do. These strategies are helpful for anyone, even if you don't have a business (yet!)

May 26, 2017

5 Silly Practices That Will Help Your Business

May 26, 2017/ Maggie Karshner

You started a business and now you think you need to be all serious? Pssh. Nope! Here are 5 silly practices that will HELP your business!

October 22, 2015

Dealing with Difficult Things

October 22, 2015/ Maggie Karshner

Difficult situations are everywhere and especially important to the budding entrepreneur. Here are some thoughts on the nature of difficult things, and why it's worth stick through it.

March 20, 2015

Build a Website without Breaking the Bank

March 20, 2015/ Maggie Karshner

As a solo-entrepreneur, you need a website, it shouldn't cost you a ton, and it should be easy for you to update. Here are three leading platforms that are great resources for solo-entrepreneurs.

February 11, 2015

Getting Help - Writing your First Position Description

February 11, 2015/ Maggie Karshner

Admin staff are within your reach. They're key to growing your business and can dramatically improve your experience of your business. Read on to learn the logistics of finding your first admin staff.

January 22, 2015

Celebrating Baby Steps

January 22, 2015/ Maggie Karshner

This is one of the most important and most over-looked tools for the solo entrepreneur. (and everyone, really.) Celebrating your small accomplishments is acknowledging your success in small ways on a daily or weekly basis.

November 21, 2014

To Do List Tips and Tricks (or, how to use Trello)

November 21, 2014/ Maggie Karshner

Improve your effeciency with a DIGITAL to do list!

Jun 26, 2025

How to Do It All (Without Doing It All): Streamline Your Solo Business

This article is for busy self-employed business owners struggling with doing too much. You crave identifying which operations in the business to streamline. Sounds like you need an Operational Plan! I'll help you clarify your priorities and help you feel less overwhelmed by your task list.

May 28, 2025

End Financial Overwhelm: Reliable Results Just Need 3 Things to Balance

You're no dummy. You know a financial plan is a key part of business, even for a self-employed business that's just getting off the ground. You want to have reasonable financial expectations for your business. And it'd be great if you didn't have to overwork to get there. (But is that even possible?) This article is for anyone struggling with overwhelm when trying to understand the money side of their business. Here, I'll help by providing you with clarity and simplifying the mathematical process. This will help you to launch a business with a solid financial footing.

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