The Jim Galiano Show: Help for Freelancers & Solopreneurs

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Two of the biggest challenges many digital entrepreneurs will face this year will revolve around time and money. How much money do you really need? How much time does it really take? I’m talking about building a real business and doing it right.

I realize, of course, there aren’t any “default answers” that we can throw out there to address unique challenges. Everyone’s situation is different.

Perhaps the better questions would be, “How much money will YOU need? And, “How much time should YOU invest and where should YOU invest it this year?” What’s paying off right now and what isn’t?

If you sit back and really think it through, maybe you don’t as much of either as you think?

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This is a great time to build momentum going into the New Year. It starts by looking at all the pieces you currently have to work with.

For me, 2020 is all about guiding a business that's faster, leaner and not getting bogged down micromanage anything. Sometimes good enough is good enough when you’re starting something new. You can always course-correct as you’re moving forward.

If you’re still in the planning stages, that’s ok. The point is, recognize when you’re getting caught in the weeds. Sometimes, an imperfect solution is better than no solution at all. A new decade has arrived. Let’s do our best to make it better than the last.

Those thoughts and more in today's podcast.

Happy New Year everyone! It’s good to be here on the first day of a new year and a new decade as well.

Today I want to talk about planning for the future in business.

How should you plan for the future? I believe it all starts by recognizing exactly what it is we have in the present. The tools and infrastructure are already in place to take you wherever you want to go in the business world of 2020.

I guess the only question is, “Where do you believe you should go from here?”

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you! As we look back on 2019, we can celebrate the victories and learn from the missteps. Due to the busy time of the year, I made today’s podcast a little shorter than usual. Today, I wanted to share a few ideas on how to possibly do some things better in the upcoming year.

In today’s podcast, I want to talk about money. Just about every business owner knows what it’s like to face financial challenges. It’s almost a given and there are very few exceptions. That said, money problems (like other problems) can be worked through and solved. You just have to be ready and willing to make some changes.

If your business is not generating enough income, don’t take as an indicator of your personal value or self-worth. Instead, simply realize that you’ll need to employ a different approach and strategy. Take your emotions out of the equation entirely.

Be willing to think and plan differently than you have in the past. Remember, when it comes to business – wisdom, and strategy will have a much greater impact on the final result than just about anything else.

Many entrepreneurs bring multiple interests and talents to the table which makes things like “finding a niche,” extra challenging. In my own life, I’ve wrestled with pulling various interests and skill sets together to find a common thread.

My initial focus was wide instead of deep. This slowed my progress a bit until I finally discovered the common thread that tied all my interests together. At that point, all of the seemingly disconnected puzzle pieces finally fit together

That ultimately became the business I enjoy today. I combined a variety of interests to build the kind of digital business that energizes me more often than not.

If you struggle with multiple interests pulling you in different directions while you’re trying to build your digital business, you’ll enjoy today’s podcast!

As an Online Business Owner, you have your own experiences with what works and what doesn’t.

I’m talking about things like the various social platforms, your personal take on design, what you really think about email marketing, video marketing, blogging, paid ads, SEO and so on.

Some of those things worked well for you, but they won’t work well for your client. And vise versa. Some things that weren’t a good fit for you will be a great fit for your client.

This is where you have to understand between a business principle and a personal blueprint. In today’s podcast, I’ll be talking about how all these pieces can fit together and be a better fit for you.

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Many people who run smaller digital businesses and agencies don’t feel comfortable selling themselves to potential clients. They have multiple processes in place for doing the work, but almost none for selling it.

Because of this, people with a fraction of their talent are bringing in new clients like clockwork while they’re struggling to pay the bills.

This must change for good as you enter the new decade of the 2020s. If you’re willing to take – even baby-steps out of your comfort zone, today’s episode was recorded with you in mind..

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A low overhead, the ability to adapt to change, and a laser focus on profitability. That’s what it will take for the average digital business to succeed over the next few years.

Many of the business owners of today do not see the value in what we do as clearly as they have in the not so distant past. Their attitudes have become somewhat jaded and their belief in real digital solutions has somewhat waned.

The challenge before us is to change that, one client interaction at a time.

You can no longer be average in this kind of business and survive past the five-year point. You need to be better.

In today’s podcast, I’m going to talk about several different things. Things like planning, making progress and forming a strategy. Starting is often the easy part. It’s sustaining the effort or the plan that’s difficult.

That’s why, out of necessity, I’ve spent years figuring out how to turn 7-step processes into 3-step processes and so on. Fewer steps require less effort. When there is less to do… what you do can be done at a much deeper level. That’s where true mastery can finally be achieved.

It’s not just about effort, it’s about sustainability. At the end of the day, the plan you stay with over the long term will be the one that has the greatest chance of transforming your business and life.

The problem is, we overestimate our personal “stick-to-it-ness.” We over-estimate how much time we can really invest in doing the deeper, focused work.

If that sounds interesting, you’ll enjoy today’s podcast!