Last year, I shared the three best things I did for my business in 2011. But this year, I can’t say that I’ve got three best things I did. Because this year was the first year where it felt like my business worked for me and not the other way around. In my fifth full …
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There’s been a lot of furor online over the last two days about Instagram’s new terms of service. I won’t get into the full details of what the changes mean (plenty of other posts have been written about that) but what’s causing outrage is the idea that Instagram will now be able to sell, and/or …
One of the biggest excuses I hear for people not doing the things they need to do for their business is fear. Fear of failure. Fear of losing money. Fear of rejection. Fear of looking stupid. You name it. Well today I’m here to call bullish*t. There are so many reasons that businesses don’t succeed, …
It’s no secret that I love wholesale. Wholesale forms more than the core of my jewelry business. (Over 90% of my jewelry business comes from wholesale.) I’m a big advocate of wholesale as a way to grow your business financially. But today, I want to talk about the difference wholesale has made in my quality …
I’m a big fan of the Internet. It’s provided a lot of opportunities for my business. (After all, without the Internet, I wouldn’t have Designing an MBA.) But when I think about the opportunities that have grown my business the most, they all seemed to happen OFFLINE. I built a thriving wholesale business because I …