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.

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In the context of conversations in business, scale says ‘more’ to many.

What is commonly confused is the tendencies to talk to size being about headcount, assuming that more people means more capacity, more capability, more more to do more, to be more.

Now some will trust when there is more, and they are right, there is a time when you need more business bums in seats to hold and have confidence in continuity of supplying a service or producing a product.

And then, there are a growing number of ‘others’.

Here we circle back to move forward with the focus of ‘all done by one’ and building the belief that ‘size matters’ to welcome the curiosity of the strength of working with a Solo Business. But, before we do, it is up to us to be comfortable in our own business skin to say ‘we is me’ 😁

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In the context of conversations in business, scale says ‘more’ to many.

What is commonly confused is the tendencies to talk to size being about headcount, assuming that more people means more capacity, more capability, more more to do more, to be more.

Now some will trust when there is more, and they are right, there is a time when you need more business bums in seats to hold and have confidence in continuity of supplying a service or producing a product.

And then, there are a growing number of ‘others’.

Here we circle back to move forward with the focus of ‘all done by one’ and building the belief that ‘size matters’ to welcome the curiosity of the strength of working with a Solo Business. But, before we do, it is up to us to be comfortable in our own business skin to say ‘we is me’ 😁

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

The funny thing about taking what works in big business and popping it to play a part in Solo Business that sometimes it looks a little very different. Here we draw the focus to a frame of connecting your Solo Business to resources through specific relationships, specifically those relationships assigned to exisiting business role names.

In this conversation we work with business roles as a bridge between the different business makeups to make what we have work harder for us.

While there is no one way to get our foot in that door, to get our name out there, or to get the needs we need met through who we know and who knows us, we certainly can leverage the already embedded assumptions of these common business role labels to get us what we need with purpose on purpose easier.

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The funny thing about taking what works in big business and popping it to play a part in Solo Business that sometimes it looks a little very different. Here we draw the focus to a frame of connecting your Solo Business to resources through specific relationships, specifically those relationships assigned to exisiting business role names.

In this conversation we work with business roles as a bridge between the different business makeups to make what we have work harder for us.

While there is no one way to get our foot in that door, to get our name out there, or to get the needs we need met through who we know and who knows us, we certainly can leverage the already embedded assumptions of these common business role labels to get us what we need with purpose on purpose easier.

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

We are putting forward the idea that maybe the middle can be less messy or muddy and16 be more magic with the clarity cleared up when working with a couple of key Business Role Lenses, specifically the Manager and Director.

Through a real world example we share an application of how the Manager and Director can both connect and correct working in Solo Business.

Some lenses feel more familiar, while others feel forced and foreign, so they are not always picked up until they are deliberately designed to be picked up.

For now, the idea is to pick up the idea of Business Role Lenses in Solo Business. Then when you are ready, you can note and notice how you work with your lens(es) now. And then, by design 😉

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

We are putting forward the idea that maybe the middle can be less messy or muddy and16 be more magic with the clarity cleared up when working with a couple of key Business Role Lenses, specifically the Manager and Director.

Through a real world example we share an application of how the Manager and Director can both connect and correct working in Solo Business.

Some lenses feel more familiar, while others feel forced and foreign, so they are not always picked up until they are deliberately designed to be picked up.

For now, the idea is to pick up the idea of Business Role Lenses in Solo Business. Then when you are ready, you can note and notice how you work with your lens(es) now. And then, by design 😉

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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

Business role lenses are so light and so little they are easy enough to pull out in our days and ways. Growing on what we are already knowing about Business roles Lenses, we keep going growing.

Really leaning in to learn what we can learn, what we can leverage, and where it can lead us (on and off track).

The point is in the persistent practice of pulling out the aligned lens for you to direct, decide, or do what needs doing, or to catch yourself when you find you are leaning on one lens just because it feels more familiar and friendly 🤭

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In big business layered layers of levels make sense. It makes sense to move the deciding, directing, and doing to be done on different floors (metaphorical and actual). In medium and small business these levels work too. In Solo Business…not so much.

Here we continue to grow the idea into Solo Business ways and days where ‘all can be done by one’ by building in the Business Role Lenses.

Same level, same you, different view.

The view that tells you what you will can do next.

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

In big business layered layers of levels make sense. It makes sense to move the deciding, directing, and doing to be done on different floors (metaphorical and actual). In medium and small business these levels work too. In Solo Business…not so much.

Here we continue to grow the idea into Solo Business ways and days where ‘all can be done by one’ by building in the Business Role Lenses.

Same level, same you, different view.

The view that tells you what you will can do next.

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