Summer puts solopreneurship into stark relief. You want to enjoy some well-earned vacation, be present with your kids and keep up with work, while your clients and prospects balance their schedules. I would like to tell you that I have … Read More
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App Store Adventures
Mimiran runs well on various screen sizes, and while I wouldn’t recommend writing a whole proposal on a phone, I’ve certainly made tweaks while on the go and away from my computer. However, a responsive web app is missing a … Read More
Zoom Networking, the Fortune is in the Follow-up
Zoom networking followup (or lack thereof) is the most essential task if you want to make Zoom networking effective. You could spend your whole week in Zoom networking meetings and never move your business forward if you don’t have good … Read More
Not that I’m anti-AI…
It’s certainly nice to have excavators instead of having to dig ditches by hand. But if you never get any exercise, that’s not good, either. It’s great to have calculators and spreadsheets to do math, but we have no mathematical … Read More
AI for Solo Consultants: Your Intern, not Your Replacement
There’s a lot of talk about AI replacing and transforming jobs, which has some kernels of truth alongside a whole lot of AI-hype. It’s hard to throw an AI-generated rock without hitting a newly minted “AI Expert” or “AI Strategist”. … Read More
Integrating Mimiran with Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
It’s easy to connect Mimiran to Kit (ConvertKit) to automatically add new Kit subscribers from Contacts created from Mimiran Lead Capture Forms. Note that if you update these Contacts in Mimiran (for example, perhaps you only ask for an email, … Read More
Turn Zoom Meetings (and other content) into Evergreen Lead Magnets
One of the (many) challenges of solopreneurship is the feast-or-famine cycle of business development and project work, because there’s never enough time. Heaven forbid you might want to have a vacation in there somewhere. (After all, is it vacation if … Read More
Small Year-end Solo Consulting Housekeeping Tips
Happy holidays! I hope you’re taking some time away from business to be with family, friends, nature, a good book, etc. But this is also a good time to make some adjustments while you may have a moment. Here are … Read More
21 Day Independence Day Challenge
Does your positioning do most of the sales and marketing work for you? Or do you have to slog to get leads and then try to close them? When your positioning is doing the work for you, you have easier … Read More
Webinar: grow sales *and* profit
Join us for a webinar on B2B sales optimization. We’ll look at how manual negotiation processes cost time, sales, stress, and 10% or more of profit. Why does this happen? What have companies tried to do about it? And what … Read More