Last week's episode was about things I did "right" in my business, which made it grow. I'm saying the word "right" with air quotes, because keep in mind that what works for one person's business might not work for another. Today I want to look at the flip side - things that failed or didn't work out like I'd hoped. I'll talk about five of them today - the first two are sort of mindset-related, and the last three are more tactical.

Show notes & comments: http://www.entrepreneursinmotion.com/failures

In your first few years of business, you’re in a phase where you’re trying really hard to figure things out – everything from your product (or service) to your messaging, your price point, how exactly you’re gonna get leads and turn them into customers, your backend systems, even your business model itself.

It’s a time of intense experimentation. You’re studying best practices, you’re implementing them – you’re basically throwing a bunch of spaghetti against the wall and seeing what will stick. Some things you try are surprisingly successful, some strategies are a dead end, and others have lukewarm results. What works for someone else’s business might not work for yours, and vice versa.

A lot of entrepreneurs are extremely forward-thinking, so we’re always rushing on to the next experiment. But I think it’s interesting to reflect on your business and identify what were the key strategies and tactics that moved the business forward?

Show notes and comments: http://www.entrepreneursinmotion.com/growth

In your first few years of business, you’re in a phase where you’re trying really hard to figure things out – everything from your product (or service) to your messaging, your price point, how exactly you’re gonna get leads and turn them into customers, your backend systems, even your business model itself.

It’s a time of intense experimentation. You’re studying best practices, you’re implementing them – you’re basically throwing a bunch of spaghetti against the wall and seeing what will stick. Some things you try are surprisingly successful, some strategies are a dead end, and others have lukewarm results. What works for someone else’s business might not work for yours, and vice versa.

A lot of entrepreneurs are extremely forward-thinking, so we’re always rushing on to the next experiment. But I think it’s interesting to reflect on your business and identify what were the key strategies and tactics that moved the business forward?

Show notes and comments: http://www.entrepreneursinmotion.com/growth

Almost every online business owner, at some point, has to tame the e-mail monster. The more our businesses grow, the more e-mails we have to deal with – and processing e-mail can turn into a mentally-draining time suck if you’re not careful.

I’ve got about 80,000 newsletter subscribers, and needless to say I get a LOT of e-mail. I thought I was decent with email because I usually didn’t fall behind – at least too far behind – yet it was still taking up time and energy that I could have been spending on other areas in my business.

So I made five changes that have drastically improved my efficiency when it comes to email, which is what I’m going to tell you about today. The first few things are some basic clean-up, and then the last few are really significant – they’re really key ways to save myself time.

Transcript & comments: http://www.entrepreneursinmotion.com/inbox

I used to look down on "mindset" stuff. In my voracious consumption of entrepreneurial blogs and podcasts, I'd always want TACTICS, really concrete tactics and strategies, and whenever I saw a post about mindset, I'd dismiss it. I'd assume it was a superficial "positivity" message, or something generic like "think like an entrepreneur, not an employee" - and I'd just skip it.

But the truth is that wrestling with your own psychology and emotions is a major part of being an entrepreneur, and the way you think absolutely does affect your business on a practical level.

Click here to read the transcript and leave a comment:  http://www.entrepreneursinmotion.com/mindset/

I’m really excited to dive into today’s topic, because how to spend your business profits is a question we all face, and it doesn’t have a clear-cut answer – but today I’m going to give you a framework for reinvesting in your business.

Tell me if this sounds familiar:

One year in, my business was generating about a thousand dollars a month. I still hadn’t quit my “day job,” and I was wondering what exactly to do with that money. Other entrepreneurs would constantly say things like, “You gotta reinvest in your business to grow it faster!” – but I was really unsure about HOW.

What specifically should I spend this money on? I was nervous about possibly wasting the profit that I’d been working so hard to earn.

To be honest, this question is still something I struggle with now.

Like I said, there’s no answer that’s going to be one-size-fits-all – but I’m going to lay out six major ways to reinvest. I’ll tell you what I did, and then I’d love to hear your thoughts – you can weigh in at entrepreneursinmotion.com/profits

So here are six main ways to spend your business profits. Keep in mind that I’m not presenting them in any particular order of importance, OK?

Read the transcript and leave a comment: http://www.entrepreneursinmotion.com/profits/

Today I’m going to talk about:

• who this podcast is for and why I created it
• two key values of Entrepreneurs in Motion
• who I am and what I’m up to

Read the transcript and leave a comment: http://www.entrepreneursinmotion.com/intro/