Sharon WoodhouseMay 3140 Secrets of Conflict That Can Help Your BusinessYou don’t have to love conflict, just don’t avoid it. We’ve all encountered the solo practitioners, freelancers, or small business owners...
Sharon WoodhouseMay 27Slow Relationships, Sustainable Business50 easy ways to re-connect for defensive entrepreneurship and post-pandemic socializing. Where did my most recent client work come from?...
Sharon WoodhouseMay 23How to Generate Work from Your Local Knowledge50 place-based ways to grow a freelance business. Do you like people, your corner of the world, ongoing learning, variety, flexibility...
Sharon WoodhouseMay 20How Meditation Can Boost Your Solo Business12 entry points to ‘better’ from going within. I started my first business at 16 and started meditating at 17. There was no connection. My
Sharon WoodhouseMay 17Build It and the Work Will ComeWhat you do while waiting for work creates a sustainable business — a sturdy container the work can flow into. Waiting for freelance...
Sharon WoodhouseMay 16How to Use Presence in the Brave New Uncertain World of BusinessThe attractiveness of the present moment offers opportunities. “We must get back to normal!” We hear it everywhere. A desperate cry for...
Sharon WoodhouseMay 13What to Charge Small Businesses for Your Freelance Services31 million small business in the U.S. are underserved and need your help. “I just read your article on freelance writing for small ...
Sharon WoodhouseMay 12Marketing Tips for Freelancers Who Don’t Want to NicheFirst, here’s your permission slip. To niche is a b*tch for some of us. Don’t make us pick one thing. We refuse to choose. And personal...
Sharon WoodhouseApr 26Freelancers, Here’s How You Get Paid — Always and Mostly on TimeDon’t get stiffed by clients again. Msn.com recently reported that the majority of freelancers get stiffed by their clients, quoting...
Sharon WoodhouseApr 19The "Magic" 3-to-1 Ratio to Boost Any Business or Creative ProjectSome of the best tools are the simplest ones. Easy to remember, easy to use. Effective in multiple situations. Powerful beyond expectation.
Sharon WoodhouseApr 12We Should All Be MillionairesRachel Rodgers makes a strong case and provides a map. We should all be millionaires. No doubt. It’s quite a statement, but author...
Sharon WoodhouseApr 6Self-Employed? 11 Reasons You Should Try All the Things“Have no single point of failure. Have no single path to success.” — James Clear. Niching, exquisitely-wrought branding, hyper focus, and...
Sharon WoodhouseApr 5Embrace Presence in Face of the New Not NormalCozy up to the attractiveness of the present. “We must get back to normal!” We hear it everywhere. A desperate cry for routine...
Sharon WoodhouseApr 4Business Development via Saved by the BellThe scheduling trick that supports incremental and ongoing success... Saved by the bell. Again. It’s a figurative bell, but no matter.
Sharon WoodhouseMar 21How I Rebuilt a Full-Time Freelance Business Three Different TimesAfter a kid, after a concussion, during Covid. After I did it once, I knew it could be done. After the second time, my confidence...
Sharon WoodhouseMar 4Tap Into Who You Are and Bring What You Have to the World8 ways for authors, creatives, side hustlers, solopreneurs, and micro-businesses to customize and optimize their marketing efforts...
Sharon WoodhouseFeb 28Self as Authority: #28 of 28 Big Ideas from the World of CoachingSelf as authority is #28 of 28 big ideas from the world of coaching. To close this series, let me emphasize something fundamental to...
Sharon WoodhouseFeb 22Grow a New or Existing Business with a Tour of NeedsFinding places to care, create, and serve as creators, solopreneurs, and jacks-of-all-trade. We have them in spades and so do our fellow...
Sharon WoodhouseFeb 11Indie Bookstores Should Formally Become the Private Clubs They Already AreHear me out…at least SOME of them B-b-b-but democracy and literacy. Books are for everyone. Books and reading and literacy are...
Sharon WoodhouseFeb 4There’s No Business Like Slow BusinessIt’s time for a prominent Slow Business movement. There is no Great Resignation at the moment for those of us who are self-employed...