Heather Villa

Most of my readers are business owners, entrepreneurs, freelancers, and coaches. Each one of those roles requires frequent, on-the-fly decisions to be made throughout the day. You want to be able to encounter a choice, decide intelligently, and act in the right way. But it’s easier said than done! Choices aren’t always clear, which fogs [...]

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You need to get work done but you can’t do it all by yourself. The busier your business gets, the more you need to do and the less time you have to do it in! That’s when you turn to professionals like freelancers and contractors to help you out. I’ve recommended sites like Guru and [...]

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As a business owner, you have lots of work to do. Hiring someone to work in your office isn’t always a realistic alternative and you can often get highly qualified offsite contractors and freelancers for less than it would cost you to have someone in your office. Not only that, you can put in just [...]

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Running a business requires a combination of your own talents and skills and the talents and skills of other people. I can’t think of a single person in the history of ever who could do it all with excellence. Almost all businesses do some form of outsourcing or subcontracting. In some cases (depending on budget [...]

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I work with many different kinds of businesses but especially with freelancers and coaches. With some businesses, the income opportunity isn’t limited by anything other than how many customers you can send to your site. But with a lot of freelancers and coaches, the income opportunity is limited by the hours in the day. In [...]

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Getting stuff done: Oh how business owners and freelancers everywhere love a to-do list that is completely crossed off! I know that I always sleep way more soundly at night when I’ve actually crossed everything off my day’s to-do list! Each day, business owners face a variety of tasks to be done. Some are fun [...]

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Business owners who are advancing from the solopreneur to a staffed organization can’t always make that leap from one to the other cleanly. They will often discover that there is an intermediate step in between, although not everyone knows this. It’s true! In the steps between running a business on your own and running a [...]

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