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Ashley Cheeks Triples Her Revenue with a Little Help from Tressa Beheim, Online Business Manager
My client, Ashley Cheeks, is the founder of Written Success. She works with entrepreneurs looking to create comprehensive business plans to help secure funding for their ideas. Having worked in the field for over a decade, Ashley noticed there were a great number of...
How To Build a Strong Foundation So You Can Stop Feeling Like “My Team Sucks Up All My Time”
One of the most common objections to utilizing a team is the belief that having a team is going to suck up all your time. This can be true in many cases, but if you take the time to build a strong foundation with your team, it can be avoided. There are three common...
Building a Stronger Team to Create Work/Life Balance — The Story of Alexia Vernon Empowerment
Meet Alexia Vernon, founder of Alexia Vernon Empowerment. Her business supports female entrepreneurs who are looking to use speaking to grow their businesses and step into thought leadership. She also works with executives who are wanting to amplify their executive...
Determining the REAL Cost of Hiring Overseas Employees
As your business grows, you'll likely start to explore different methods of building a team. One strategy that gets a lot of attention is hiring overseas employees, contractors, or agencies. While it is an extremely cheap way to get help, it's not always as simple as...
Why It’s Time to Hire Before You’re Desperate for Help
As you grow your business, it will likely become essential to add team support. So often, entrepreneurs struggle to identify the right time to hire the help they so desperately need. This contributes to stress, overwhelm, and burnout for owners and team members as...
Three Simple Ways to Increase Productivity (and Stop Wasting Time!)
As your business grows, it becomes more and more essential to find ways to increase productivity — both your own productivity and that of your team. One way to do this is to focus on the time suckers that drain you of your available time and energy. Because let’s face...
How to Prioritize Tasks: Keep This, Delegate That
As you build your business, it often becomes necessary to start outsourcing parts of the business you once executed. As the owner and leader of the business, your time is often far too valuable to continue doing the mundane, day-to-day tasks that could be easily...
What’s YOUR Professional Responsibility?
There's a phenomenon I've seen time and time again with new clients that's both frustrating and saddening. It commonly ties back to a lack of professional responsibility on the part of the service provider. Far too often, I have to help clients deal with the aftermath...
Growing Your Team? Avoid These Hiring Mistakes
In my work with clients, I often help manage existing teams as well as find new team members as their businesses grow. Back in my corporate days, I also helped manage and train new hires in a variety of industries. It's all too common to experience hiring mistakes —...
Managing Your Money as Your Business Grows
As your revenue grows and you continue to scale, the money matters you'll need to handle in your business will also grow. The habits, systems, and support that got you started will likely not carry you all the way to 6-figures and beyond. As a CEO, managing your money...
When It’s Time to Hire an Online Business Manager
As your business grows, you will likely come to a point where you feel like you're ready to bring on some help more focused on strategic decisions to take some of the weight off your shoulder. So, how do you know you need an online business manager added to the mix?...
From One-Woman Show to Full-Fledged CEO: The Story of Lux ATL
Dr. Lindsay Byron, aka LuxATL, is the founder and CEO of Lux ATL. As a former university instructor and exotic dancer, Lux has created a business to help empower women through sensual awakening. In this role, she’s worked as a writer, speaker, cheerleader, and...