Are you utilizing the power of networking to meet other entrepreneurs who may have good advice for you, meet potential referrers, hear about great tips, tools and resources? If not, you should be. There are so many great tools out there for networking. One of my favorite tools is Meetup.com. When you creat an account [...]
A Who in Whoville that is? Sometimes as entrepreneurs we can be shouting “we are here, we are here, we are here!” and no one is listening. In the Dr. Seuss story “Horton Hears a Who”, its Horton who…you guessed it, hears the Whos and he protects them on their dust speck, until finally the [...]
I hear it all the time, I fell into this line of work or that line of work, and usually that is followed by exhaustive accounts of misery, anguish and regret and punctuated sharply with a disclaimer, “but it pays the bills”…now I’m not arguing that people don’t need to pay their bills, in fact [...]
Everyone has created something, sometimes they just don’t know it. Even if its just a cheeseburger. Hey! What’s different about your cheeseburger? What makes it good? What people forget sometimes is that being creative, simply means creating something. Webster’s defines “create” as: “to bring something into existence, cause something to happen as a result of [...]
Today I want to ask you to complete an exercise and don’t worry…it doesn’t involve an elliptical machine. Take a moment, close your eyes and take 2 or 3 deep breaths. When you open your eyes, look around the room you are in. What items in that room don’t work quite right? I’m not talking [...]
I often read articles filled with advice about how you should act in this situation, or that situation, and more often than not, I don’t agree! Usually the example that is cited as the “must be avoided-at-all-costs faux pas” is more appealing to me than the example that is cited as the “right way” to [...]
If you want to be even more efficient than I know you already are (chuckle inserted here), try using a tool like tweetlater.com. This tool allows you to create your tweets at times when you may be feeling more creative, but then schedule them to go out when your readers and members of your Twitter [...]
Got your attention? The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, as some of you may know, is a huge force in the business world, he asked for tips on how to handle unhappy customers for his blog post today and I was happy to offer up my advice, check out the post: http://www.toiletpaperentrepreneur.com/blog/how-to-handle-unhappy-customer find me at tip #51!
Want tools that make it easy to see your Twitter feed and messages among other things: These fab tips were provided to me by Erick Brownstein of Blob Live (a great organization – open mic for entrepreneurs that you should check out), you can also find Erick on Twitter Tweepular – helps you keep track [...]
Social media is exploding right now, particularly Twitter. Do you have an account or accounts? Are you having any trouble growing your followers list or finding interesting and relevant people to follow? One of the best ways is to list yourself in a directory and provide key tag words for what you do and what [...]
Susan M. Baker - aka The Escape Hatcher is a Creative Career Consultant who helps people figure out what they really want to be doing, how to make money doing it and then how to get started... she's helping her clients change their lives one dream at a time.