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You Need a Support Team to Grow Your Business Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting two very special people in my life and business. For the last 10 years I’ve worn many hats in my business. From trainer to marketer- product developer- copy writer- editor-customer service and everything in between. I outsourced a little bit but mostly handled everything myself. You see, I thought If I didn’t do it all myself, I wouldn’t be a good business owner or example to my clients or students. Being a Good Business Owner Doesn’t Mean Doing it All Yourself Boy was I wrong about the way I was handling my business. The whole reason behind leaving my job and starting my business was to travel and be with my daughter. As I got busier, that freedom started to drift. The time I wanted to get back from my corporate job was slowly replaced with more “stuff” working in my business, not on it. What good was doing myself, Brian, or Hanalei to allow “stuff” to take all of my attention. That ...

Tips, Tricks, Do’s and Don’t’s of Social Media Marketing- Selling the Dream & Living the Nightmare In here, what I want to talk to you about today is selling the dream and living the nightmare. Being a Freedom-Preneur Means Having Fun! It can be inferred that there is a huge struggle for those that leave the corporate world. It’s this– we don’t take time to have fun. Now let me ask you: So you finally did it, right? You left your corporate job so that you could pursue being a Freedom-preneur, only to turn right around and put in the same amount of time and effort to your home based business as you did for someone else. What is the point of all of that? You left but then you were just going to still spend all of your time working, then why did you not stay in the industry you were in? Don’t ever forget that living the dream means taking the time to live. In all seriousness and strictly speaking, you have to get away from your desk. You didn’t sign up for that. You s...