Imagine if you could pinpoint when you’ll have the cash flow to hire another employee, or how a supply chain disruption would affect your business. As a small business owner, I’m not a financial expert and I can’t predict the future. What I can’t learn or do myself, I automate. That’s how I started using…
Month: May 2025
Freelancer vs. Entrepreneur: How Jim Huffman, CEO and Founder of GrowthHit, Went from Freelancer to Owner of a 7-Figure Agency [+ Tips for Aspiring Entrepreneurs]
If you’re wondering what the secret formula is for going from freelancer to entrepreneur, then building a thriving business model, then achieving goals for that business, I’d say to just ask Jim Huffman. Huffman, the CEO and Founder of GrowthHit, knows how to own his lanes. From owning a high-performance agency that focuses on web…
Freelancer vs. Entrepreneur: How Jim Huffman, CEO and Founder of GrowthHit, Went from Freelancer to Owner of a 7-Figure Agency [+ Tips for Aspiring Entrepreneurs]
If you’re wondering what the secret formula is for going from freelancer to entrepreneur, then building a thriving business model, then achieving goals for that business, I’d say to just ask Jim Huffman. Huffman, the CEO and Founder of GrowthHit, knows how to own his lanes. From owning a high-performance agency that focuses on web…
Why Pitches Fail: How Strategic Sales Conversations Win Clients
If you want more clients, stop pitching and start having strategic sales conversations—they’re the key to lasting business relationships.
Customer onboarding: Strategy & best practices to reduce churn
As an experienced customer success manager, I know that two of the major reasons customers churn are that they don’t understand how to use your product or they don’t see value from it quickly enough. This is precisely why customer onboarding is so critical. Without proper onboarding, customers can get frustrated and disengaged. In fact,…
Customer onboarding: Strategy & best practices to reduce churn
As an experienced customer success manager, I know that two of the major reasons customers churn are that they don’t understand how to use your product or they don’t see value from it quickly enough. This is precisely why customer onboarding is so critical. Without proper onboarding, customers can get frustrated and disengaged. In fact,…
Meeting Minutes Matter — My Tips and Tricks for Note-Taking
I have taken my fair share of notes as a senior coordinator (and former assistant and coordinator). For most of my career thus far, I’ve taken notes in at least half of the meetings I’ve been in. At roughly one page of notes per meeting, 20 meetings a week for five years, that’s … a…
Meeting Minutes Matter — My Tips and Tricks for Note-Taking
I have taken my fair share of notes as a senior coordinator (and former assistant and coordinator). For most of my career thus far, I’ve taken notes in at least half of the meetings I’ve been in. At roughly one page of notes per meeting, 20 meetings a week for five years, that’s … a…
How to Handle Sales Concerns Without Damaging Trust or Losing Deals
If you treat your prospect’s concern like an objection, you may lose the deal before you’ve earned the right to win it.
Entrepreneurship through acquisition: When and why this innovation strategy works
As a freelance writer, I constantly learn about new industries and how they work. Lately, I’ve started to learn more about entrepreneurship through acquisition. In my former life as a Spanish teacher, private equity and acquisition entrepreneurship weren’t on my radar. Instead, I was more focused on learning to make the language more comprehensible. So,…