Knowing What Goals to Set
How do you determine what your big goals are? I may be overwhelming you by using the word big, so let’s break it down. What are your goals for your 12-week plan? What about your monthly plan? Do you have …
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Five Revenue Stream Ideas
I love talking to talented, tiny business owners about revenue streams. Revenue streams are all about looking at who your people are, and figuring out what other problems you can solve for them. How do you figure out what revenue …
It’s Smart to Stay Scrappy
I want to talk today about the importance of staying scrappy as you start to build a tiny business. What do I mean by staying scrappy? I mean, keeping your overhead low and your costs down. Why do I recommend …
The Perks of Owning a Tiny Business
I am always talking about how amazing it is to be a talented, tiny business owner. Today let’s go into detail today about why. I’m going to give you three reasons why it’s great to be a talented, tiny business …
How Customer Service Impacts Sales
Great customer service is essential to your business. You can use all of the marketing and sales techniques in the world, but when people actually come and interact with you in your business, if they are not receiving great customer …
5 Tips to Tame Your Inbox
We’re going to talk about email today. I know, not a subject that any of us enjoy, but a subject that we all deal with as a tiny business owner or not, the inbox is a problem for many people. …
Learn To Love Networking
You hear it constantly, that the number one thing to grow your business or succeed at work is to build and maintain your network. Yet so many roll their eyes and groan when they hear the word. Why is networking …
10 Things Every Business Owner Should Do At The End of The Year
As we come to the end of the year, it can be either smooth sailing or the craziest time of year depending on the type of business you’re in. No matter what your industry is though, you will have to …
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Celebrating All The Wins
The idea of celebrating the little wins, accomplishments and short-term goals is discussed frequently. But what about the big wins? The long-term goals can seem awfully anti-climatic when they are achieved and unless you have something in place to celebrate …
Behind The Scenes – Designing A Collection
As we’re getting closer to the launch of the SS17 Collection, I thought I’d share a bit about what goes into designing each of these quarterly releases at Manic Trout. In the months leading up to a new collection, I …
