Making Money When Customers Ghost You: How to Stop Losing Time and Sales
Customers ghosting you after a quote? The real problem isn't the ghosting, it's your system. How to qualify buyers, follow up, get paid, and protect your time.
Why Your Big Break Won’t Fix Your Business
More customers won't fix weak margins, poor retention, or broken operations. Here's what to fix before you chase your next big break or milestone.
How to Turn a Side Hustle Into a Real Business
Ready to go from side hustle to real business? Here are the systems, habits, and goal-setting moves that turn extra income into something lasting.
Why Cash Flow Kills More Small Businesses Than Lack of Sales
Most small businesses don't fail from weak sales. They slowly run out of cash. Here's how cash-flow problems build up and how to catch them early.
The Harsh Truth About Why Reliable People End Up Richer Than Talented People
https://youtu.be/RflQAjvQyjo Most people assume the highest earners in business are the smartest, most talented, or most creative people in the market. In reality, a huge percentage of successful businesses are…
Why Goals Often Fail (And How to Set Them So They Actually Work)
If you are an entrepreneur, investor, or creator, you have been told your entire life that setting goals is the key to success. Write them down. Make them specific. Attach…
Need to Move Beyond Client Work
I need to get serious when it comes to selling websites. It’s really the only thing I have started, isn’t dependent on actual clients and contracts, and can, at least partially, be automated to sell without my direct involvement constantly.
I am working on some marketing plans to help sell the websites and think it’s time I finally pull the trigger. The key will be to do it consistently, tweaking as I go. But to start things off, I have to do something.
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The Giant Risk Everyone Must Take to Be Successful
With the new goal of posting better, complete approach posts instead of posting as often as every single day, I really haven’t been doing that. So I figured I should write one good post, and see how all this works out. For the post, I will address the big question I get asked the most often, how did I start making money? From landing clients to real estate, the ideas are simple, but the execution is hard. There is one thing that you must do which holds most people back.
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Reduced Hours With One Client, but Potential New Clients
As I figured, the Chicago client has reduced my hours. I am now currently guaranteed 0 hours a week. Knowing ahead of time has given me some time to get some replacements lined up. I have a short list of potential new clients to fill the void.
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Landed a New Client
I ended up doing some client work which ended last year. It lasted about 7 months, and was a pretty good project to work on. A few months after the project ended, I heard back from someone at the same company, but someone I never dealt with the first time around. Another project came up, and they wanted me to join, but at the time, I wasn’t too interested.
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