I have something to confess: Heart of Business is a bigger business. It’s still teeny-weeny compared to the Big Guys. Even an average “small” business, like my family’s business was, does a few million dollars a year.
However, when I think about where we were, actually I was, a few years back, that place many who [...]

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Throughout 2008, we had an interesting, uh, adventure in hiring, before we found our infrastructure queen, Kate Williams. Kate is blogging the Insider View, as previously self-employed and now working with us. I expect that she’s going to embarrass the crumb out of me. The intention, however, is to be as transparent in our [...]

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Last year was a crazy year at Heart of Business. We went on a bumpy hiring adventure, and found an amazing collaboratrix in Kate Williams. Plus, we also have a Trainer-In-Chief with Jim Brosseau, and a whole heart-filled community of small business entrepreneurs.
Success! We’re now poised for our next stage of growth. Yes, even in [...]

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I’d only worked within Heart of Business for three months when I helped with last October’s Path to Profitability Retreat. Learning how to prepare for the retreat happened in a chaotic, crash-course sort of way, by necessity.
I stayed in my own room in a separate building from Mark and Holly.
Not once did we take time [...]

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Throughout 2008 we had an interesting, uh, adventure in hiring, before we found our infrastructure queen, Kate Williams. Kate is blogging the Insider View, as previously self-employed, and now working with us. I expect that she’s going to embarrass the crumb out of me. The intention, however, is to be as transparent in our [...]

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For much of 2008 we were on an adventure in hiring. Heart of Business had, sadly and wonderfully, outgrown our amazing virtual assistants and needed to hire someone as a real employee.
It was an expensive, painful, enlightening, and incredibly educational journey. My wife and I learned tons about ourselves, about the true needs of the [...]

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“Fifteen years I’ve put into this business, and I’m just spent,” lamented one client. Another told me, “I pushed myself to get my website up, and I went over an edge with my health. It took me months to recover.”
It’s humbling to realize, but as you age, you just don’t have the same ability to [...]

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