Many people have hobbies they can legitimately turn into a business but don’t know how or where to start. First off, you’ve got to look at your hobby. What is it? Is it marketable? Is it desirable to others? When we talk about others, we are talking about the general public. You need to find out how other people feel about your product or service. Get genuine, honest feedback. Too often people think they’ve got something great and they think, “Why wouldn’t people want this?” To an extent, it’s great to think positively and be excited about your product but the reality is everyone’s not going to feel the same way. 

Taking mental health days is extremely important because business owners tend to go, go, go but that’s not healthy for you or your business. You’ve got to learn to take mental health days. I say this a lot: SELF-CARE MATTERS! It’s one of my favorite hashtags to use. Entrepreneurs deal with a lot of stress and sometimes isolation. It’s lonely at the top. We’ve heard this saying probably all our lives or at least half our lives and it’s not a fallacy. As humans, we’re meant to do life together! Learn more here.

What does this it mean to define the customer experience? When we talk about defining the customer experience, we are talking about every step of the process, every encounter the customer has with your business is intentional. From product design to quality assurance to customer support, the customer is at the forefront and not an afterthought. The customer experience is every encounter the customer has with your business. So, ask yourself, “How are my customers engaging with my business? What is it like for them?” Learn more here.

Ladies, it’s important that you #love #value and #appreciate yourself otherwise you will find yourself with a trail of broken, fragmented relationships and who wants to live with a relationship graveyard? Now, I’m not saying we won’t have a graveyard of broken relationships but sometimes we end up with relationship graves that were unnecessary. We try all kinds of foolishness thinking it’s going to get us what we want and that’s not always true. No need to debate me on this, because you're not going to change my mind on this: Dating ultimatums are the absolute worst and only say, "I don't love, value, and appreciate myself. I'm desperate for this thing that I want and am willing to settle for it." There's nothing wrong with stating your desires up front but when you have to manipulate and control someone into giving you what you desire, that's where the buck should stop! Share your comments below. Let's talk about it!

 ​Poor communicators create impossible workplace environments. They are often at the root of the problems happening in the workplace, simply because they do not know how to communicate. According to a study, Forty-four percent of respondents said such issues delay or derail projects, while nearly a third said they cause low morale. A quarter attributed poor communication to missed performance goals, and 18% said a failure to communicate caused lost sales, sometimes totaling well into the six figures. So, how do we handle them? Click to learn how to handle leaders who are poor communicators.