In this conversation we offer you not any one way for you to business your Solo Business. Often ‘what works’ in your Solo business comes from the delivery layer in your systems, strategies, or services/products.

Sure, there are templates to trace to get started, to do it the first time, to grow it into your own. And then there are ways in your days that are already working, that need not change, but can do more of the heavy lifting across different parts of your Solo Business.

Here we take what you know in the doing of your delivery to be informed, influenced, and inspired by slipping in to lean on your Strategic Direction in your ways and days.

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Have you ever been in those conversations and you think are you in sync, you are talking the same talk, and later learn you were so far off you just have to laugh out loud.

Confession, we are very totally all human here and we too have been talking to ‘scaling’ and ‘growing’ being interchangeable, and to a small degree we have been right 😅

Annnnnnd in the same breath, we have been missing out on a really real opportunity to be leaned on and leveraged 😃

We share a little of our now knowing and we are loving where it is going growing from here 🌱

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com

Have you ever been in those conversations and you think are you in sync, you are talking the same talk, and later learn you were so far off you just have to laugh out loud.

Confession, we are very totally all human here and we too have been talking to ‘scaling’ and ‘growing’ being interchangeable, and to a small degree we have been right 😅

Annnnnnd in the same breath, we have been missing out on a really real opportunity to be leaned on and leveraged 😃

We share a little of our now knowing and we are loving where it is going growing from here 🌱

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com

How we think in our Solo Business generally often always falls into one of two cognitive comfort thinking camps. Some of us enjoy working among the big bigness of the big picture and picking the direction and destination. Some enjoy the diving into the detail taking the big picture and making it really real.

We have a choice. We can stay in our lane. Or, we can learn our comfort zone and enough of the other to be fully across our Solo Business. It is totally doable by first knowing it is a thing and then practicing it a little over a long time.

For now we illustrate one example of where this is commonly practiced out in moving from growing a Strategic Direction to playing our part in a Strategy.

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Let’s have a little fun with playing with a popular ‘mindset’ — (specifically, part of the Money Mindset) — tis always a little fun to look a set mind in the face and wonder what is fixed and fused and what is open to another view.

Here we slip from selling to buying and by doing so move what we see from the back-of-business to look at our Solo Business from the lens of a buyer out front.

You are right in thinking they are the same and you are right when you wonder about the difference the lens of a label makes and what leaning into this lens can bring to your Solo Business.

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Small Business and Solo Business are labels lobbed about with little thought in our business conversations. And, it is this little thought out thinking that we can now realise a real opportunity to lean on and leverage these labels to do some of the heavy lifting in our front and back of business thinking.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com

Small Business and Solo Business are labels lobbed about with little thought in our business conversations. And, it is this little thought out thinking that we can now realise a real opportunity to lean on and leverage these labels to do some of the heavy lifting in our front and back of business thinking.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com

It is simple, buildings are built for a purpose, and while that purpose may change with future custodians, the walls are where they are, the floors are fixed, and ceiling keeps everything contained and concentrating on meeting that business purpose.

A Solo Business needs more set structure. The idea of fixed flexibility kinda feels more like flapping in the business breeze to make something already made work.

Instead we grow an idea, just one, where maybe the mobility of growing in contained containers concentrated in a fixed footprint lends itself to work more for Solo Business. Enjoy.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com

It is simple, buildings are built for a purpose, and while that purpose may change with future custodians, the walls are where they are, the floors are fixed, and ceiling keeps everything contained and concentrating on meeting that business purpose.

A Solo Business needs more set structure. The idea of fixed flexibility kinda feels more like flapping in the business breeze to make something already made work.

Instead we grow an idea, just one, where maybe the mobility of growing in contained containers concentrated in a fixed footprint lends itself to work more for Solo Business. Enjoy.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com

So many Solo Businesses start from the self selected label of being a solopreneur (a nod to stepping out of the ever crowded crowd of entrepreneurs and being chuffed where all is done by one).

Here we expand on the existing and open an option to a knowing know of when to name yourself a solopreneur and when to shift the focus to your Solo Business. This is where you having a strong sense of self in your role in your Solo business in your Strategic Direction (specifically, your Niche and Business Model-Network) come to play their part in your business ways and days.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com