Beach Glass Treasure

You're passionate, innovative, and a born transformational leader. You don't even mind putting in the extra hours and shrugging your shoulders at the naysayers. What you don't read or hear anyone even coming close to mentioning is the mountain of stress, the sweaty anxiety, and the migraine headaches that creative entrepreneurs running the show fight to hide every day. You can't help that feeling of your stomach dropping as if you're about to go down a hill on a roller coaster during the prelude of an important decision or even hitting publish on your next blog post. Getting sweaty at the wrong moments and then worrying if anyone will notice so you just keep your sweater on when its way too warm in the room during an exhibit at a gallery or an art show. Worrying if you're targeting the right audience or if your marketing campaign is going to be profitable changing your mind on minuscule details that end up not being as big of a deal as the entire picture.....

Anyone running a business, blogging, creating, or going above and beyond from the break of dawn until the candlelight burns out in the evening realizes the difficuties being much more than anyone imagines! Working from home is definitely not an exception to this especially with one or more small children in your office every day. As I began writing this post today in my art studio at home, my toddler was jumping all over the place, his tablet's volume was on full blast and I had mac n cheese in my hair with it barely being 10am. I couldn't be happier though! For those entrepreneurs that work from home while sharing your workspace with your little ones, I'm here to share some ideas to increase your productivity while keeping the kiddos smiling and getting better quality results with the energy you're putting into your hard work. -This post contains affiliate links. These are links that when clicked will take you to an area where you can purchase the items that I...

Are you super shy and find it difficult to break free from your introverted shell even though you run a business? Do you gain most of your energy from being in your own bubble and feel as if you need to recharge after being around a lot of people? I completely understand the difficulties of needing alone time to regenerate your battery after going above and beyond all day. This post is not about trying to ditch the turtle natural instinct that you’ve grown accustomed to and adapt to better ways as introversion is not always a negative thing. Are those "better ways" actually better anyway? Who said that introversion was anything less than awesome? Change of any kind is one of the most resisted norms within the human race. We like things to be the same which is calming but when you get into habits that may not serve you anymore then it’s time to shed that old pattern of behavior and find a new refreshed updated version that increases your liveliness Bloggers, artists, a...

Artists that want to make money, you are in the right spot! I apologize for the delay as I had originally planned to post this a few days after the last post, however, I wasn't sure if everyone had caught up on the prior parts of this series yet so I wanted to give everyone adequate time to absorb everything. This is Part 3 in Series 2 where I'm about to give you tips as well as a free printable worksheet on a competitor analysis for B2C and B2B strategic alignment. This part is going to involve a lot of research on your part however, I will walk you through it to make it less painful! Start with your 2 biggest competitors: one that is B2C and the other that is B2B. Its basically going to be similar to a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis but with comparing your business to your competitors. -This post contains affiliate links. When any picture that looks as if its a stock photo or an ad appears within this post and you click it ...