Almost every online business will hire a contractor for project-based work, but when does it make sense to hire a full-time employee for your business? In this episode, we share the hiring trends we’re seeing in the online entrepreneur space and address the pros and cons of working with contractors and employees.

I wouldn’t have thought that I’d get a lesson in business while looking for a painting to hang up in my home office, but in this episode, I share the story of how an artist from Uganda unknowingly gave me a master class in sales and marketing at a small art fair.

There is a ton of pressure in the online entrepreneur community to make your business as successful as possible, but have you ever stopped to think what level of success is really right for you? Not everyone wants to make the sacrifices necessary to grow a huge life style business and that’s totally fine. That’s why in this episode, we explore that delicate balance between your personal life and your business’s financial success that every entrepreneur has to figure out for themselves.

Running an online business can be a thrilling and fulfilling experience, but there are some financial downsides to entrepreneurship that can blindside you. In this episode, we address how being an entrepreneur can affect buying a home, filing your taxes, and complicate your personal finances.

The US economy has been on a wild ride up-word for the past 5-7 years, but analysts are expecting a recession in the next year or two. That’s why in this episode, we address some of the things you need to be thinking about as an online business owner so you can be better prepared for when a recession hits.

It’s easy to get caught up pursuing every opportunity that’s in front of you instead of focusing on the one or two things that are already creating revenue for your business. It’s amazing how quickly your business can grow when you start to weed out the opportunities that just spread you thin instead of keeping you focused on what you do best. In this episode, we share how we learned this lesson the hard way and what you can gain from our experience.

2017 has absolutely flown by, so for our last episode of the year, we wanted to review the business trends we’ve seen in the online entrepreneur community and what they might mean for your business in 2018.