The REAL Truth About Business: Business Strategy for Service Based Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship is not all sunshine, rainbows, and wins! The struggles of entrepreneurship are real, and it’s time to start normalizing them. FACT: If every person in the online space had to do a weekly debrief that covered the good, bad, and the ugly, entrepreneurship wouldn’t look like sunshine and rainbows to the outsider looking in.The thing is we are not programmed to talk about these things. So what can you do so you don’t spiral downward into a mindset of “I’m not good enough” when you hit a rough patch in entrepreneurship?

About the Host -

Michelle DeNio is a business strategist with a passion for life and entrepreneurship. She strongly believes that life is meant to be lived fully and that there is WAY MORE to life than sitting behind our computer all day, every day. She has worked in various roles throughout her corporate career, including business operations & development, sales, leadership training, management, time management, and finance.

She uses all of these combined skills and experience to help her clients create a bigger impact on the world and share their beautiful gifts. Her superpower is helping entrepreneurs get unstuck and moving forward with a clear and realistic growth strategy.

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If you’ve been in business for a while, then you know there will come a time that you need to raise your prices. But when is it the right time to do that?  This is a topic that comes up time and time again and there are a million different thoughts and opinions on it.   In today’s episode I am sharing the process that I take my clients and myself through when we feel it’s time to increase.

There are many factors that you need to look at when it comes to raising your prices regardless what industry you are in.

But THE MOST important factor has nothing to do with numbers, profit or revenue.  And I am sharing it in today’s episode.  So dive in and listen to learn more about how you know the time is right to raise your prices.

About the Host -

Michelle DeNio is a business strategist with a passion for life and entrepreneurship. She strongly believes that life is meant to be lived fully and that there is WAY MORE to life than sitting behind our computer all day, every day. She has worked in various roles throughout her corporate career, including business operations & development, sales, leadership training, management, time management, and finance.

She uses all of these combined skills and experience to help her clients create a bigger impact on the world and share their beautiful gifts. Her superpower is helping entrepreneurs get unstuck and moving forward with a clear and realistic growth strategy.

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If you were your own client, would you fire yourself, or would you be thrilled with what you're doing? This is a legit question I want you to ask yourself. Most of the time - we are our own worst client.  Are you doing things in your business that would drive you absolutely crazy if a client was doing them to you? Today, I’m giving you an exercise to help you figure out if YOU are being your own worst client and causing issues within your own business.

About the Host -

Michelle DeNio is a business strategist with a passion for life and entrepreneurship. She strongly believes that life is meant to be lived fully and that there is WAY MORE to life than sitting behind our computer all day, every day. She has worked in various roles throughout her corporate career, including business operations & development, sales, leadership training, management, time management, and finance.

She uses all of these combined skills and experience to help her clients create a bigger impact on the world and share their beautiful gifts. Her superpower is helping entrepreneurs get unstuck and moving forward with a clear and realistic growth strategy.

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Is your tendency to overcommit damaging your consistency? To be honest, overcommitting is almost a subconscious act for most of us at this point. You're over committing to tasks that you don't enjoy, you’re not good at, and you just don't have the capacity to take on. So it makes it impossible to stay consistent. Let’s talk about some ways that you can improve your consistency.

About the Host -

Michelle DeNio is a business strategist with a passion for life and entrepreneurship. She strongly believes that life is meant to be lived fully and that there is WAY MORE to life than sitting behind our computer all day, every day. She has worked in various roles throughout her corporate career, including business operations & development, sales, leadership training, management, time management, and finance.

She uses all of these combined skills and experience to help her clients create a bigger impact on the world and share their beautiful gifts. Her superpower is helping entrepreneurs get unstuck and moving forward with a clear and realistic growth strategy.

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Do you have some amazing content that you currently have sitting on the back burner simply because the branding isn’t up to date? You need to #STOPWITHTHEBS.You don’t HAVE to put all your older, amazing content on hold simply because the branding isn’t up to date. Instead, just call out the elephant in the room! If your content is still good, and your materials are just a little bit outdated or could use a brand refresh, but it's such an undertaking to get it done,  I'm here to tell you to stop waiting on perfectionism and just call it out.

About the Host -

Michelle DeNio is a business strategist with a passion for life and entrepreneurship. She strongly believes that life is meant to be lived fully and that there is WAY MORE to life than sitting behind our computer all day, every day. She has worked in various roles throughout her corporate career, including business operations & development, sales, leadership training, management, time management, and finance.

She uses all of these combined skills and experience to help her clients create a bigger impact on the world and share their beautiful gifts. Her superpower is helping entrepreneurs get unstuck and moving forward with a clear and realistic growth strategy.

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If you’re an entrepreneur, I’m willing to bet that at some point in a time you’ve started to compare yourself to other entrepreneurs and imposter syndrome has started to set in. It happens to all of us. You start to think that you’re just not good enough, and you’ll never succeed in your business.

This sends you into the downward spiral of imposter syndrome. Before you know it, you might be ready to throw in the towel and give up on your entrepreneurial dreams because you’re not doing as well as someone else in your industry (or so you think). So- what can you do to combat imposter syndrome?

About the Host -

Michelle DeNio is a business strategist with a passion for life and entrepreneurship. She strongly believes that life is meant to be lived fully and that there is WAY MORE to life than sitting behind our computer all day, every day. She has worked in various roles throughout her corporate career, including business operations & development, sales, leadership training, management, time management, and finance.

She uses all of these combined skills and experience to help her clients create a bigger impact on the world and share their beautiful gifts. Her superpower is helping entrepreneurs get unstuck and moving forward with a clear and realistic growth strategy.

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“I’m on social media all day long talking about what I do, so WHY are people asking me what I do?” This is a question I have heard a lot lately.I want you to think about all the people you are connected to and interact with in the online world on a regular basis. Out of those people, could you tell me exactly what they do and who they serve off the top of your head as if you were sending them a referral without having to go digging for that answer?

If you’re scratching your head and unable to answer that question with confidence, I think it’s pretty clear you wouldn’t be able to pass a referral to them. I’m going to teach you how you can learn how to pass the referral and make sure that you can pass the referral test too.

About the Host -

Michelle DeNio is a business strategist with a passion for life and entrepreneurship. She strongly believes that life is meant to be lived fully and that there is WAY MORE to life than sitting behind our computer all day, every day. She has worked in various roles throughout her corporate career, including business operations & development, sales, leadership training, management, time management, and finance.

She uses all of these combined skills and experience to help her clients create a bigger impact on the world and share their beautiful gifts. Her superpower is helping entrepreneurs get unstuck and moving forward with a clear and realistic growth strategy.

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Want to close more sales?  I’ve got the “magic” answer to this question in episode 108….

Spoiler alert - SHOW UP WITH MORE CONFIDENCE!! Your confidence is what will make all the difference when it comes to sales.Your prospects and audience want to see that you are confident in your own products, your own services, and your own offers.So how can you achieve the confidence you need to make sales?

About the Host -

Michelle DeNio is a business strategist with a passion for life and entrepreneurship. She strongly believes that life is meant to be lived fully and that there is WAY MORE to life than sitting behind our computer all day, every day. She has worked in various roles throughout her corporate career, including business operations & development, sales, leadership training, management, time management, and finance.

She uses all of these combined skills and experience to help her clients create a bigger impact on the world and share their beautiful gifts. Her superpower is helping entrepreneurs get unstuck and moving forward with a clear and realistic growth strategy.

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Let’s talk about the big, bad “S” word in business…SALES! I’m here to tell you that you have to stop being afraid of and start getting comfortable with sales. Sales has gotten a bad rep in the online space because when you hear that word you automatically think of it as being spammy. But the truth is sales is not spammy when you are dealing with clients that already know they need you. Let’s break down how you can get more comfortable with sales and actually learn to LOVE it!

About the Host -

Michelle DeNio is a business strategist with a passion for life and entrepreneurship. She strongly believes that life is meant to be lived fully and that there is WAY MORE to life than sitting behind our computer all day, every day. She has worked in various roles throughout her corporate career, including business operations & development, sales, leadership training, management, time management, and finance.

She uses all of these combined skills and experience to help her clients create a bigger impact on the world and share their beautiful gifts. Her superpower is helping entrepreneurs get unstuck and moving forward with a clear and realistic growth strategy.

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Let’s talk about Return on Investment.  The word “investment” gets thrown around a lot in the online space and we are constantly talking about investing into our business. But today and in episode 106 on the Strategy in Small Doses Podcast,  I want to flip the thinking a bit on the RETURN on investment.  We need to be able to look at investing into our business in different ways and the return is not always monetary.

About the Host -

Michelle DeNio is a business strategist with a passion for life and entrepreneurship. She strongly believes that life is meant to be lived fully and that there is WAY MORE to life than sitting behind our computer all day, every day. She has worked in various roles throughout her corporate career, including business operations & development, sales, leadership training, management, time management, and finance.

She uses all of these combined skills and experience to help her clients create a bigger impact on the world and share their beautiful gifts. Her superpower is helping entrepreneurs get unstuck and moving forward with a clear and realistic growth strategy.

Connect with Michelle-