New Years’ Resolutions For Your Itty Bitty Business
This is going to be a really scattered post. I blame the cold medication.
Since I’m pretty into New Years’ Resolutions, especially the wildly unrealistic kind, I am resolving to lose some weight. I am resolving to get off my ass and learn to cook something other than hash browns. I am resolving to go swimming regularly. I am resolving to burn my confectional. I am resolving to lose the FIFTEEN POUNDS I’ve gained since being home full time in September.
As IttyBiz is not a weight loss blog (and thank God for that – if it was, it’d be pretty damned unsuccessful so far) I will not bore you with updates. Thinking of New Years’ Resolutions, though, gets me to thinking about business.
Your business.
I have a feeling that one of your resolutions – stated or unstated, structured or vague – is to get more business in the coming year. Getting business is about marketing. And marketing is my thing.
Therefore, starting tomorrow, I’m going to be running 31 days of marketing tutorials. I’ve written about 20 of them so far, so there’s room for me to answer specific questions if you have them. You can leave questions in the comments or, if your site sucks and you’re embarrassed by it or you think your question’s really dumb, you can email me directly at naomi@ittybiz.com.
Tomorrow we’ll talk about USPs. Do you know what those are? No? Maybe you should come back tomorrow, then.
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In other news, it’s been a busy week over here at IttyBiz HQ. Some of the highlights include, but are not limited to:
- My computer broke.
- I switched email clients and lost a bunch of emails.
- One of the lost emails was from GoDaddy alerting me to the fact that my credit card expired.
- IttyBiz subsequently went down.
- My mother came from Europe for 9 days.
- We lost internet, home phone, and cable connections.
- 2 head colds.
- 2 of Jack’s teeth arrived, unplanned and unwanted.
Oh well. At least I’m not pregnant. Not that you’d know. Did I mention I’ve gained FIFTEEN POUNDS?
Breathless with anticipation about 31 days of yummy marketing goodness? Subscribe here. That way, when your business is a raging failure, you can’t blame your marketing. Don’t worry, you can still blame your mother.
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Look at it this way, you’ve gotten all the bad stuff out of the way, it can only get better from here.
I’ve heard of people who cycle or walk ‘to’ their home office and ‘back’. That is, they take a 10min walk at the start of the day, 10min walk before and after lunch, and yet one 10min walk when they are done for the day. That ought to help 15 pounds to disappear.
Two things get me through times like these:
1 - Remembering that this, too, shall pass.
2 - Harry telling me, “Things’ll be okay.” Somehow, hearing someone else remind me that all hope is not lost and that tomorrow is another day makes me feel better.
(God, that sounds sappy- I need more coffee. Onwards.)
I await 30 days of your advice and howling wit. In fact, your series comes at an excellent time - we’re currently doing some internal restructuring to be more efficient, work less and earn more (yeah right) and we’re 100% revamping our blog.
Which reminds me - Everyone, come visit our blog. We’ve put up a call asking, “If you could change one thing, what would it be?”
Then come back here. I don’t want to steal Naomi’s traffic :)
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