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Relax.That’s not a suggestion. It’s not even advice. It’s a requirement for any entrepreneur who really wants to succeed. A burnt out, overworked, overtired person cannot meet their full potential, and is not fit to run a business. In order to make yourself fully capable, you have to factor in a little R&R.Fortunately, getting the recharge you need doesn’t have to cost you much money, or your business much of your time.Today, we discuss 5 ways to get quick, relatively cheap relief from the stresses of entrepreneurship. In fact, a single day of dedicated rest, focused solely on refreshing your love of life, is more effective than a week of working “vacation” where you spend your “off” days squinting at work messages on your smartphone.For $100 or less, in less than 24 hours, you can do what you need to do to keep your head on straight. We can’t stress (see what I did there?) this enough: rest is just as important as work in order to be successful.It’s not lazy. It’s not luxurious. It’s life, and you can live it with a healthy balance of work and play. Speaking of which, Click Play!SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTSSpotify| Podcast Feed| How To SubscribeGive us a Rating & ReviewShow LinksEasyCourseThe post MBA1122 5 Ways to Recharge for Under $100 + Free Ride Friday! appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Is your small business succeeding?Growth can be a difficult thing to measure. Often, new entrepreneurs need help to determine whether they’re on the right track. What exactly constitutes the right speed of growth is hard to put your finger on, especially when things can change so drastically at the beginning.Today, we discuss exactly how to decide what success means for your business, what exactly needs to grow, and how fast. Whether you’re measuring revenue, users, influence, or anything else, defining your benchmarks is the only way to track your progress. If you’re not growing, you’re dying — so you have to be able to “see” growth as it’s happening.No matter the size or type of business, you can paint a picture of what adequate growth looks like. On this episode, we offer multiple ways to measure growth, so you can decide which matters most. By pinpointing the right data and metrics, you can see exactly where you are — and how to get where you’re going more quickly.Learn how it’s done — Click Play!SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTSSpotify| Podcast Feed| How To SubscribeGive us a Rating & ReviewShow LinksThe post MBA1121 Is Your Business Growing Too Slowly? appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Just getting started blogging? There’s a ton to learn. There’s a ton we wish we’d learned before we started. Fortunately, we’ve learned it since, and today we share it with you!It’s Q&A Wednesday, and one listener wants to know exactly what advice we’d give a rookie blogger. Without the right focus (and the right tips), the blog game can be tough, even counter-productive. But if you can find your voice, master your content production, and leverage your writing skillfully, your blog can be the best thing that ever happened to your business.This advice is much more specific than “just keep blogging.” With instructions on everything from blog structure to page design and more, you can improve the quality and visibility of your blog. This is the information it took us years (and hundreds of posts) to acquire.Make the best blog you can make. Get the most out of it. See how powerful a simple thing like the written word can be for your business. Click Play!SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTSSpotify| Podcast Feed| How To SubscribeGive us a Rating & ReviewShow LinksRisky MoneyThe post MBA1120 Q&A Wednesday: Do you have any crucial advice you’d give to a fresh blogger? appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Conferences can be excellent opportunities to network, build partnerships, and yes, build your audience. Whether you’re a speaker or just an attendee, there’s no substitute for the face-to-face, in person connections you build at conferences.But you have to make those connections correctly, and strategically.Too many entrepreneurs don’t get the most out of the opportunities conferences create. Today, we discuss how to turn your fellow attendees into more than just friendly faces. With a few simple tricks, you can turn them into leads, and ultimately into customers.You can harvest the crowd, turning a portion of the conference audience into your audience.Conferences are unique and wonderful things, where you’re surrounded by people with whom you already share common interests. You can dip your basket into this flow of real-world, live human traffic, and translate it into digital traffic for your business.Check out our 5 tips for getting the most out of conferences, and see what a difference they can make. Click Play!SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTSSpotify| Podcast Feed| How To SubscribeGive us a Rating & ReviewShow LinksWebinarNinjaSumoKing SumoThe post MBA1119 5 Ways to Get More Leads at Conferences appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What’s the secret to creativity? How do great product designers, artists, and content marketers create original work that’s unlike anything consumers have seen before?They don’t.This week’s Must-Read book for the entrepreneur, Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist, debunks the myth of originality and explains how all great creations are the products of the creator’s influences, not divine inspiration from within.Creating and marketing art, products, and writings has less to do with “creating” and more to do with something else: reinterpreting.So we’re clear, we’re not talking about plagiarism or copyright violations. We’re talking about using inspiration from others to build something of your own, something rooted in greatness but unique nonetheless. From fine art to clothing designs to great blogs, we’re all just taking the baton, not making the baton from scratch!Nothing is created in a vacuum. If you can master your influences — and make sure your influences are of a high quality — you can make something truly (but not entirely) new. You can create something that will live up to the creators before you, while making your own name in the business world.Find out how. Click Play!SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTSSpotify| Podcast Feed| How To SubscribeGive us a Rating & ReviewShow LinksSteal Like an Artist by Austin KleonThe post MBA1118 Must Read: Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

For new businesses, Facebook is a long game.The power of social media marketing is often, frankly, overhyped. But that doesn’t mean there’s aren’t serious gains to be made with the right approach. In particular, Facebook’s ability to directly target users according to endlessly refinable characteristics is just too good to pass up — but it still requires strategy on your part.Today, we discuss our long-term, slow-and-steady method for gradually getting a serious ROI on Facebook marketing. With a far-reaching outlook, you can harness the considerable power of Facebook to make your ad buys count in a big way. We’ll show you how to build and implement a Facebook strategy like the one we’ve been using for the last several years, to great effect.Facebook can make a huge impact on your business, but only if you approach it with the correct timeframe in mind. Planning, patience, and commitment will bear the biggest fruit. See how we pull it off, plus learn about an incredible online resource that makes Facebook advertising much, much easier. Click Play!SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTSSpotify| Podcast Feed| How To SubscribeGive us a Rating & ReviewShow LinksEasyCourseLynda.comAdEspressoThe post MBA1117 Long Term Facebook Marketing Strategies + Free Ride Friday! appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Computer running sluggish? You can’t let your tech slow down your business, but what if you can’t afford a brand spanking new piece of equipment?Worry not, friends. You don’t have to drop a couple G’s on the latest hardware.There are alternatives. You’ve got to have the tools you need to do business, even if your operating budget isn’t in “new MacBook” territory just yet. You can drastically improve your computer situation for just a few hundred dollars, or even less.From tune-ups to accessories to trade-ins, there are cheaper, better ways to get the hardware you need.Today we share the tricks that let you get the most computer for the least amount of money. Some of them, you may have heard of. Others, maybe not. To keep your startup lean, you need to find savings wherever you can, and these savings are substantial.Reduce friction. Save time. Get more bang for your tech-buck. Click Play!SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTSSpotify| Podcast Feed| How To SubscribeGive us a Rating & ReviewShow LinksMBA1026: How often do you need to upgrade your computer?Clean My MacClean My PCAmazon GlacierThe post MBA1116 How to Upgrade Your Computer for Less appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Entrepreneurs have active minds. Our brains are always coming up with new ways to innovate, grow, and evolve. Ideas, as they say, are a dime a dozen — but only if they’re not executed in the real world.So how can you make sure you’re getting the most out of your ideas? How can you keep up with your own busy brain?Today, we’re offering a solution. We’ve got a super-efficient, time-effective system for organizing all your random ideas, weeding out the duds, prioritizing the ones with the most potential, and implementing them.This idea-management formula won’t just save you time, it’ll keep you from wasting (or forgetting) your best and brightest notions.All it takes is a simple, convenient spreadsheet, and a little time each week. We’ve used this system for years, and it’s served us very, very well. Get through the most ideas in the least time. Turn your a-ha moments into actionable plans. Don’t leave your ideas sitting where they’ll do the least good: in your head. Do something with them! Click Play!SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTSSpotify| Podcast Feed| How To SubscribeGive us a Rating & ReviewShow LinksSumoThe post MBA1115 Q&A Wednesday: I have too many ideas for my business. How do I implement them all? appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The holidays aren’t exactly around the corner. But for businesses, it’s time to get ready for the season of giving, right now.Today, we discuss why prepping for the holidays early is the best way to make the most of this annual opportunity. As November approaches on the Western calendar, you need to have your strategy in place. Consumers are primed and pumped to spend, and you don’t want to miss out.There’s no better climate for sales than the next two months!On this episode, we offer 5 specific things you can do now to reap the holiday spending from November ‘till New Year’s. With a little forethought, you can make your business the easiest choice for consumers in a gift-buying frenzy.Take our advice — and our experience — to really make the holidays count. After a bad performance during the height of the retails season cost one of our businesses thousands in missed opportunities, we swore we’d never be unprepared again. Don’t make our mistake! Click Play!SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTSSpotify| Podcast Feed| How To SubscribeGive us a Rating & ReviewShow LinksSimilarwebThe post MBA1114 How to Prepare for The Holiday Season To Get More Sales appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Every entrepreneur has to ask themselves: how can my business stand out?You need to find an edge, a place where you can do what other businesses can’t, or won’t. For so many industries, an entrepreneur can make a huge splash by offering better customer service. As today’s special guest teacher tells us, general satisfaction with service is at an all-time low.Shep Hyken is a best-selling author and renowned customer service consultant. As he’s watched the expectations for quality customer service rise, he’s helped businesses keep up. By offering unparalleled customer service and going the extra mile — or two — you can outshine the competition where they’re weakest.As we like to remind listeners, the ROI on customer service typically exceeds that of marketing and advertising. Reducing churn and keeping the customers you have is just about the smartest investment you can make, especially in a competitive market. But great service isn’t just about retention; by outperforming the competition in service, you can create deep, lasting loyalty.In the long term, loyalty is worth its weight in gold.Check out Shep’s lesson, and learn how you can bring the strongest customer service game in your niche. Plus, get a free helpful resource, courtesy of Shep himself. Click Play!SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTSSpotify| Podcast Feed| How To SubscribeGive us a Rating & ReviewShow LinksHyken.comThe Convenience Revolution pdfThe post MBA1113 Guest Teacher: Shep Hyken- How to Deliver a Customer Service Experience That Disrupts the Competition & Creates Fierce Loyalty appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.