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A blog by Marie Deveaux
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Financial Fitness February Today we jump into February, and I want to dedicate February to financial fitness, and so ... love that, right? Three F's for those alliteration fans out there. So February is all about financial fitness. I talk a lot about business finances...
SMART-er Goal Setting For Entrepreneurs
All Goals Should Be SMART Coming to you today to talk about smarter goals for entrepreneurs. I feel like I talk about SMART goals a lot. But maybe I haven't broken it down for some of you. I realize that maybe some people aren't familiar with SMART goals and why this...
How To Turn Big Goals Into Baby Steps
When Annual Planning Gets Real I know leading into the new year, and all through December, we were talking about goal planning. We were getting ready for the new year, quarterly planning, setting those 13 week goals, 90 day plans. All that strategery. Now we have to...
How To Write a 90 Day Plan in 4 Steps
Why 90 Day Plans How do you create a 90 day plan? I spoke about this topic last week on my Tuesday live on Facebook. If you missed it, this is awesome because now you get the replay, and the article, and all the links all in one place. Make sure you check that stuff...
6 Step Guide to the Annual Partner Review
Agree to Be Honest I wanted to talk a little about end of year performance reviews with your partner. I have done a blog post about this topic in the past and it keeps coming back. This is something that people are extremely interested in, so this year I am giving a...
The Fall Financial Review For Owners Who Hate Numbers
Fall Is For Reflection It's November and I consider November the very end of the year. You could continue building goals and try and distract yourself for another 90 days. Those who know me know I like to work in those 90-day Madwoman Cycles. But I think at this point...
Making A Way Through – An Ode to Election Day
Today is election day. And I am nervous like I don't know what. More nervous than having to speak in front of 100 people, or deliver a workshop to a group of hedge fund managers. I'm scared. Making A Way Through Because the last time there was this much on the...
Small Business Momentum To Propel You Through the Holidays
The Q4 Slowdown If you are reading this, then you know that 2019 has officially started. Q4 gets a bad rap in most business circles because its the end of the game. This is the time of year where you can either be reaping a a ton of new growth, or find yourself...
Small Business, Find a Role Model, Be a Role Model
Networking Makes Me Tired Conferences are exhausting. And yes, I know I have been to three in the last 6 months (Blogher, Rockstar Marketing Bootcamp, Ewomen Network). There's an element of content overwhelm going on. But aside from the sheer number of...
Rockstar Marketing For Small Business
Marketing Makes The Business I just spent three days at a Rockstar Marketing conference. If there is one thing I have learned from being business over the last 2 years, its that no matter how amazing you, your products, and services are, you will not make money if no...
The Ideal Entrepreneur Schedule
Starting a new business means you are your first admin. When you think of all the things that should be on your entrepreneur schedule, how do you decide when you can go from being the support staff, to being the boss? Visioning is deep work, but you can’t go to the deep end until you have mastered the kiddie pool.
Efficient Entrepreneurs’ Top 10 Not To Dos
Its almost the end of the year which means we start to assess if we are accomplishing all that we wanted for these 365 revolutions around the sun. Have you been efficient and productive with the first few months of the year? Or have you been too distracted,...