This is the last post in a three-part series on learning new skills to boost your business success. If you had a dollar for every time someone gave you advice that went in one ear and out the other, you'd probably have enough money to ignore everyone's advice.  It's not that you don't value the suggestions and expertise of others. Far from it. The problem is this: today's ever-changing world is always generating more stuff you…

This is the second post in a three-part series on learning new skills to boost your business success. Imagine this for a moment: you find yourself in an online forum where small business owners and entrepreneurs are chatting happily about doing courses.  Everyone seems fired up about learning video marketing, Facebook advertising, SEO, Google Analytics—you name it.  That's when you start looking around to see if you're actually in a padded cell. Are these images…

This is the first post in a three-part series on learning new skills to boost your business success. As small business owners and entrepreneurs, we all know the benefits of expanding our skill set. More clientele, healthier revenues, shorter hours at the office—they're on everyone's wish list right? That doesn't mean, though, we're eager to add the task of learning new skills to our daily haul of responsibilities. Bills to pay, product labels to design,…

Wow! It seems like a minute ago we were all ringing in the New Year and then, just like that, we're past the midway mark of 2019! Someone must be messing with the space-time continuum. Today is turning into tomorrow a lot faster than it used to! This was supposed to be the big year—at least, that's what all those big goals said on paper. More clients, a more efficient workflow, better work/life balance; unfortunately,…