Last year, I approached my husband through tired mom-eyes riddled with a cabin fever of epic proportions and said, "I need to shop spending money on crap we don't need. I'm buying stuff because I'm bored and lonely and sad. Halp."
A list of apps that can help: from your personal spending issues to your business organization and marketing. Hooray!
Read MoreAlmost instinctively, I ran downstairs and found some cute stationary in my office. I did a search on Pinterest for "Gratitude Journal Prompts" and found about 6 I liked, wrote each one on a notecard with colorful markers, and taped them around my house like the grown up entrepreneur, mother, and woman I am.
Read MoreIn my experience, finding a good therapist is what may make all the difference. That’s why I asked my actual therapist, Laura Longville of Walking In Grace to help us all with something we may not have even thought important before this: how does one find a good therapist?
The real question is, “How do I find the right therapist for me?”
Read MoreWe've all been deeply impacted by the COVID-19 closures and repercussions of social distancing. As many communities are re-opening, we're sharing our thoughts for steps small business owners and entrepreneurs should consider to help their staff and teams re-enter their work environments.
Read MoreIn short- tax time seems the perfect time for things to "slip off your list" and into the pile of forgotten things. Here's a few new ways to look at tackling those kindling items that can lead to full on wildfires.
Read MoreSo, if you need it today, you have it: full permission to be excited, to be a dork about what you do, to say nerdy things, and encourage others around you to do the same. Furthermore, In my experience, nothing kills a great work culture faster than someone who’s “just too cool for all this stuff”. Today, embrace your true nerd-dom in whatever way makes you the happiest!
Read MoreIt's clear that for the average person, grouping like tasks together (batching) and completing them in one session (time boxing or blocking) greatly helps your productivity. So think: “what tasks go together and when can I do them best?”
Read MoreAs a business owner, you know all too well how many things you have to do each day. This list can shrink and grow, but it’s hardly ever totally empty. This can make it difficult to maintain a reasonable work life balance.
Read MoreIt's true- as an entrepreneur, it can be hard to slow down. Generally speaking, business owners are a "Can Do" type of people, and being "slow" isn't generally an appropriate adjective for them.
Even so, we're finding out during a season of slowing down and eliminating as small business owners, our business and even bottom line are actually doing fine (and even getting better). Why? It all goes back to the Hedgehog Theory.
Read MoreI’m a big fan of the "you can't organize chaos" mind set. Literally, digitally, responsibility-y, you cannot possibly "tread water" forever.
Read MoreIn general, I will argue against the concept of “being your brand” in small business. As a human, there’s something sacred about existing, and trying to fit ourselves into a consumable mold for our potential clients or customers is not healthy.
Read More8 thoughts to consider when “using your time wisely” becomes an issue in your business.
Read MoreIn addition to empowering our clients with more control over their website, we often end up sharing other tools and apps that can benefit their overall business needs. We've compiled a quick list of some of our favorites for you to try out and see what works best for you!
Read MoreFIVE:thirty is, after all, a local small business, just like you. And like you, we enjoy flexibility and customization. One of our favorite things about working with smaller businesses, is that they understand our style of putting together a team of freelancers and independent contractors to suit an individual project’s need.
Read MoreIt's a popular and well-known theme in business marketing: "People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it."So what's FIVE:thirty's why? In a word: you. We love working with small business owners. To us, small business is the backbone of our economy and our social culture.
Just hearing the term makes many of us cringe. File Management. A misleading and unassumingly complex term, file management is more about retrieving than it is storage. Many small businesses leave a little to be desired when it comes to the 'management' end.
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