“The beginning of change doesn’t come from motivation and dangling carrots. It begins with being clear about what you want to get away from.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“We stretch ourselves when the impact we want to make and the life we want to create is bigger than the fear and challenges.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“The old-adage that business is business, don’t take it personal, doesn’t apply to the self-employed. It’s all personal!”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“The safest way to be in business today and the way to gain as much control over your business as possible, is to have a business model of multiples where you can reach a multiple of audiences in multiple ways.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“For the deepest acts of creation and renewal happen in invisible realms that require a subtle mix of intensity and non-doing, alertness and grace. Fallow fields are far from lifeless, for much churning happens deep within the soil. Here was an insight about the alchemy of waiting and the power of living stillness. Conscious 'being', I began to understand, could be far more significant than 'becoming'.”
Source: Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry
“She'd poured her joy into the filling as if it were tablespoons of pure vanilla extract. Did she really have the power to transfer emotions into the food she made?”
Source: The Antiques & Collectibles Mysteries Boxed Set: Books 1-3
“The choice is not, Reich argues, between a governed and an ungoverned market, but between a market governed by laws favoring monopolistic companies and one governed by those favoring small business.”
Source: Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
“Your confidence, competence and belief will sustain you through the fear, uncertainty and doubt you will face. Knowing with everything you are, that you can do it.”
Source: The Overlooked Expert
“Commitment shows up before results do!”
“RULE #1
Market your business to the customer YOU WANT.
Most beauty businesses try to be everything to everyone. It's exhausting and expensive promoting yourself to everyone. Most people simply give up.
Focus on the customers you really want. What is your passion, what do you excel in? Who is your ideal customer? What would you ideally like to do every day in your business?
Focus on what you want to do and the clients you want, and market directly to them and only them.”
Source: RETAIL LEGENDS: How to have more CUSTOMERS coming through your door FAST, Beauty Salon Tips