Comments on: Growing your business with marketing, week 39: Failing to plan

By: Growing your business with marketing, week 41: ¡No mas! :: communicatrix | markets (a virgo's guide to marketing)

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:31:06 +0000

[...] Streamlining continues at a steady pace since my freakout of a few weeks back. [...]

By: Growing your business with marketing, week 40: Regrouping :: communicatrix | markets (a virgo's guide to marketing)

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:50:23 +0000

[...] still in paring-down mode after last week’s meltdown (oh, the good times! the goody-good times!), so this week was a lot less about marketing and a lot [...]

By: Working toward siesta | communicatrix

Working toward siesta | communicatrix — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:02:42 +0000

[...] a little clean laundry?) I detailed the business-type version of the agony and subsequent ecstasy over at my marketing blog, but here, where I can let my hair down a bit more, I’ll confess: Day One was far, far worse [...]

By: the communicatrix

the communicatrix — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:07:17 +0000

You’re doing it right, Sarah. It’s a process, as we both know by now, which of course a million people told me to start with but I was all “Nooooooo—I’m-a do it in ONE SHOT.” (CUE: Universe guffawing.)

Once I get some time with her under my belt, I will share what of her story she feels would be relevant and useful. But trust me, the biggest part of her story was “Get that shit in place NOW.” She was all over the E-Myth.

I left that conference extremely happy with the problems I have now. They’re the ones I’m able to handle for the time being, and that’s good enough for me!

By: Sarah Bray

Sarah Bray — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:50:24 +0000

Setting up recurring reminders for every single thing I need to do weekly/bi-weekly/monthly to grow and flourish…that made a turning point for me. It also turned into “OMG, I need to hire someone fast. Or a bunch of someones.” I can clearly see why the marketing and networking and “getting out there” falls behind when I…ummm…actually have work to do.

Ironically, my husband quit his job to help me. And I won’t let him. I’m like “Oh, you can just watch the kids and clean the house and stuff.” Which is certainly help, but why do I think I am the only one who can handle my biz stuff? I must have the ego of a mothership.

So…learning. Trying to delegate. Trying to still be personal and one-on-one and grassroots (because that’s me). And oh yeah…I want to make more than just enough to pay the bills ($22M? For real?). That would be really, really cool.