Periscope and other live stream platforms like Facebook Live are some of the newest social media options for online entrepreneurs, authors and business coaches. So, what’s all the hubbub about, anyway? WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT PERISCOPE? Well, for starters, Periscope is...

  Periscope, like all social media, is not a one-way street.It's also not a place where you get in front of the camera and talk at people. It's meant to be a conversation, even when you're the only one front and center on camera. For Periscope to grow your business,...

How do we plan for next year's business right now? I'm taking some lessons from the recent Christmas season in all its stress and glory and using them to plan what's next. Perhaps you can relate. I love Christmas. And, yet, Christmas can make me crazy: the to do list...

  'Nuff said, right? Well, maybe not. You see, we usually know WHY we need to do something or why it's good for us or why it will help our business. But, sometimes, we also need to get motivated to do it and have specific steps to follow. And so it is with our...

Whether writing an article, website copy, training materials or short social media posts, sometimes the hardest part is getting started. Often, we approach writing tasks with a mindset that doesn't help. Is this ever you?: I don't like/I really hate/I deplore writing...

Both Mom and Dad taught me life lessons and I realized only recently that one from my dad was to love learning. It's probably what lead me to believe I could start a new career (my own business at that!) as I approached an age when many have long ago figured out what...

Ok, so I keep writing about self-care. Must mean I've got some work to do there. Big surprise. When you're growing a business and still working another job and raising a family, self-care kind of slinks to the bottom of the priority list. Even when we know that to do...

I know what's meant by good self-care and I realize one of its greatest adversaries in my life istime. Why does it always seem to come back to time? (Tweet this!) You see, I mean to practice self-care every day: to start my day with a brief meditation, followed by a...

  Why do we write? In the most simple of terms, it's a way to convey the thoughts in our head so that another person (or hopefully, many people) know what we mean. Sounds simple and yet, we often have to put a lot of thought into how we want to phrase what we think....