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How To Grow An Online Career When You Already Have A Full Time Job

It’s taken me several years of failing to meet my time management goals, and feeling like I’m doing it all wrong, to finally realize I need to relax and let my natural inclinations take over. Since I don’t have completely open work days in a row to focus on my online business, I can’t build my business the same way most of my colleagues are working on theirs.

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A Case For Doing Work That’s, “Beneath You”

I’ve always made a point to keep some of the tasks that I could delegate, on my own to-do list. Whether I’m running a 7-figure bagel enterprise, or growing a 4-figure solopreneur venture, I still value the simple tasks that aren’t directly making me money. Today I want to make a case for all business leaders to reserve a not-insignificant portion of their time on what others may consider “menial tasks.”

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Emails From Yours Truly

The other day I wanted to write an email to the customers of my bagel shop featuring this cute candid photo. I took the photo during a gathering of old friends. The four-year-old in the picture had protested our fished and farmed dinner spread, and his parents quickly solved the problem by grabbing a bagel […]

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Make Your Emails STAND OUT

My email inbox is full of pitches. I own a small brick&mortar plus e-com CPG business (it’s a bagel shop!) and from both fronts I get hit with hundreds of marketing emails a day. Sometimes… SOMETIMES… the subject line will get me to open. Usually, I open by mistake (have you seen the “re: Your […]

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