Heather Podcasts – From the hotline (Episode 3)

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on June 2, 2010 in: Podcasts

In this episode I am answering a few of the questions that I received in the past two weeks via my feedback hotline.  The feedback that you all have given me on my feedback hotline has been useful, but I especially love the questions – it says to me that you like what I have [...]

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A Rant about Time

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on April 8, 2010 in: Coaching

Time is one of those elusive factors that we’re all desperately trying to get more of. We understand we only have 24 hours in a day and can’t actually add more time to it (except for the one day a year when we “fall back” an hour, but that single added hour doesn’t have much [...]

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Weekend Reading: My fav’s from this week: 4/2/10

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on April 2, 2010 in: Weekend Reading

What To Do When Your Client is Boring – “No one is goals-oriented. Everyone is chocolate-and-sex-oriented. Make a note.” I figured that would get your attention.   Once you click over there, try not to focus too much on the woman covered in chocolate. Taylor has some great suggestions on how to draw [...]

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What to do When the Ship is Sinking

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on February 1, 2010 in: Coaching

We all face professional disasters of one kind or another. It’s inevitable, whether you work in your own business or for someone else. And sometimes those disasters are brought on by us (whether we want to admit it or not) and sometimes those disasters are externally occurring but impact us anyway.
I was going to list [...]

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One Month In…

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on January 25, 2010 in: Coaching

In a couple of days, my calendar is going to ping me with a reminder. It’s going to say “One month in – how’s it going, Heather?” This reminder is for me to review the new business strategies I intended to integrate into my business this year.
Each year, I list out a bunch of strategies [...]

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Business Urban Legends (BUL) Series: 1 of Many: No you will not make millions eating bon-bons

I like to blog about different things, so sometimes I start series. For example, I have an “Ooops” series where I talk about business “ooops” that I see (which is much neglected; sorry). A new series I want to start is Business Urban Legends – a series revealing things that people (clients, colleagues, innocent bystanders [...]

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When Business Growth is Bad – Part 3

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on February 13, 2009 in: Coaching

I can’t imagine a business that doesn’t want some kind of growth. That’s exactly the way it should be. But not all growth is good and in the past couple of blogs I talk about business growth that can sometimes be a problem.
So far, I’ve talked about out-of-control business growth that costs so much up-front, [...]

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