My sweet, adorable, perfect niece—I’m not at all biased—is at the “I do it myself” stage. She doesn’t want her parents to help her do anything. My niece has the same characteristic of most entrepreneurs who think they can do everything themselves (myself included) and do it better.The truth is there’s no way we [...]

The economy has changed the way most of us work. Several of my clients have started working with smaller clients instead of counting on larger corporations to keep them busy. Jobs they wouldn’t have considered doing have become their bread and butter but at what emotional and stress-inducing cost?
At what point do you finally [...]

Having a blog isn’t much different from having a party. You take the time to plan everything and then hope that folks will show up. You can entice people to come to your party with good food, yummy drinks (little umbrellas optional) and interesting friends. But since you can’t offer food and drinks [...]

You may be working naked but you still wear several hats from marketing director to business manager to publicist, among other jobs. While some of us (myself included) think we can do everything ourselves, others who know they can’t and are ready to grow their businesses, hire virtual assistants. I put a call out to [...]

The other morning while I was working in my home office, I heard a strange grinding noise. (Sounds like the opening line of a gory, horror movie!) I knew it wasn’t a lawn mower or a leaf blower or the neighbor’s go cart so finally I went outside to check it out.
Parked in front of [...]