The success of a small business is in direct correlation to the personal success of its owner, the person behind the brand. And we don’t mean money here, but more in terms of mental health, personal accomplishments and overall happiness level.

The entrepreneurial journey can be a struggle and more often than none, entrepreneurs will sacrifice their own well being in order to accomplish their goals. Some sacrifice is necessary, yes but not 100% struggle that can have consequences, leading up to feeling disconnected from themselves or their family.

So letting go of the business once in a while is more than welcome, especially in the summer when having time off is so normal for most people. This episode offers a few tips on how to enjoy your summer guilt free

As the saying goes: be clear about what you want and be ready to receive it. It works in coaching and life in general. Yet many of us go immediately in self doubt mode as soon as we receive the very thing we hope for.

As a marketing strategy, getting featured in a well established newspaper or magazine, can open many doors and create credibility around your business. This episode focuses on the tips and action that can help you land a successful print campaign.

It’s absolutely normal that we, as entrepreneurs, find ourselves sometimes bored and uninspired by our current business and so losing the enthusiasm and motivation that we started with. In moments like this, starting a new business seams like a great opportunity to gain back some motivation and find our mojo. But is this always the case? That a new adventure can equal success?

How do we search for THE IDEA, the next best thing that can inspire us again and eventually lead us to success? Today’s episode shares some great techniques to head into the right direction when thinking your next business move.

Wanting to be in business can come natural for some of us, but most of time young people get inspired from hearing success stories, inspirational life stories that can light a fire inside them and put them on the path of entrepreneurship.

Today’s episode gathers a fey keys and tips for the younger generation, but that are relevant for anyone that is thinking of becoming a business owner.

Before being business people, we are human, our personal lives can affect us more than we would like it to. More so, when an impactful negative event like the death of a loved one or a breakup falls on us out of the blue. If we would be normal employees, we know that somebody else would step in and take over our responsibilities. But what happens when we are solo entrepreneurs and our business and income depends on just us?

This episode will go over 5 ideas that can prove to be truly beneficial when dealing with dramatic events in our personal life and how to use them in real life situations.

Investing time and sometimes money in a big business can result in starting to feel like the good results will never come and impatience settles in. When that happens, we tend to focus on the things that are lacking, that are missing in that moment. When will things start moving, when will we sign the contract, etc? As a result, inefficiency is also a by-product here because we can’t seem to just focus on something else.

Today’s episode adresses a few steps how we can control our impatience and let things flow.

Clients who choose a successful businesses over and over again, when they receive excellent service and a quality product. But the businesses that thrive through excellence are the one that offer more than the client payed for, and most of the time, provide additional services that the client doesn’t even know he needs.

The secret is about understanding your client, sometimes even better than he does. And more so, is about the experience that have, the emotion that is left behind.

So, for a few tips on how to build a business based on excellence, today’s episode is for you.

We can all agree that signing up clients for your business is just the beginning of the adventure. The real secret is to always offer more than they expect…. Much more! By constantly listening to them, we will manage to transform their life with our products and services. Now the true secret is to follow up with them, in a clear, easy formal way.

This episode will show you how we can do that, for everyone’s benefit.

When an entrepreneur has a successful business and his clients are happy with his products, the temptation is to just lay back and enjoy the success, which is an absolutely normal and understandable behaviour. The secret is to do it consciously though. Not to expect that things will just magically be like this always. Because we all know that to grow a business it takes dedication and not resting on our glory.

In a logical context, a business cannot grow unless there are clients willing to purchase their products. The idea is that along the way, we as entrepreneurs, want to help our clients improve their life or their own business with the help of our product or service. So the question should always be, when a client is happy with us, how can we help them grow their life or business even further than the results we are getting now? There is always room for improvement, isn’t it?

One of the secrets is to really know THAT CLIENT, that specific client!

This episode details some insights into how we can get to know our clients better and the steps to take, if we want to serve them better, that in the end they end up buying more from us.

One would tend to believe that someone who had already a successful business, when opening a new one, knows what to do and how to go about it in the best way. But that is not always the case. As it so often happens, new beginners in the entrepreneurship world, are much more daring and innovative. In the business world, what you don’t know can become your greatest assets, because not knowing the answers upfront, pushes you to look in more than one direction and not feel so intimidated.

This episode of the mini-series focuses on finding those first clients for a truly new business, for those entrepreneurs that have the confidence and only need some guidance.