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Welcome to the Dreamer’s Manual podcast. The place where entrepreneurs learn to follow their dreams without sacrificing their inner peace. I'm Julie Calcote and I've made it my mission to help entrepreneurs get unstuck in their business and focus on shifts that build on their dreams, evolve in their journey, and bust limiting beliefs. Most of the time life doesn’t go as planned, and this podcast is your green-light to go ahead and throw that hard and fast 5-year plan out the window. Because ...
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Plan With Me 2023: Behind the Scenes Series
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Let's plan together! Something Ithat comes up a lot in Q&As and DMs is how I break down things when planning (reverse engineering goals) and how I use ClickUp to keep these things organized. Well, today on the podcast we're doing both! I'm walking you through my next 8-week sprint from goal setting, to breaking those goals down into smaller pieces,…
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5 Ways to Use Audio In Your Online Business
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You know in this community we love an authentic content and customer delivery strategy! Whether: You want to highlight a different learning style Talking things out is the way you like to teach Or your ideal customer is always on the go there are SO many great reasons why you will want to use more audio in your business. In this podcast episode, I'…
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Why I Stopped Time Blocking and What I Do Now
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Time blocking can be an amazing and supportive planning technique and I still recommend it for certain people. The way I had been planning shifted during the pandemic and the way I'm planning now feels helps me feel productive and is supportive of my life and the ways that I like to work. Today I'm breaking down: When to use time blocking in your l…
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Online Customer Service 101 with Katrina Scarlett: Part 2
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How connected is your business to your customers? Do you provide a top-notch customer experience or is there room for improvement? My guest on today's episode is Katrina Scarlett. This is part 2 of our discussion about creating top-notch customer experiences in your online business. Katrina comes from over a decade in the luxury hospitality industr…
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Uplevel Your Client & Customer Experience with Katrina Scarlett: Part 1
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How connected is your business to your customers? Do you provide a top-notch customer experience or is there room for improvement? My guest on today's episode is Katrina Scarlett. She comes from over a decade in the luxury hospitality industry and has combined that high-touch experience with the tech of the online space to create a powerful mix of …
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Unleash the Power of Your Business Data with Kiva Slade
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Nobody says, “ I want less freedom,” when they're starting or growing their business. But many entrepreneurs are missing out on key opportunities to build time and decision freedom because they are avoiding the numbers. Yep, understanding your business data can be challenging, but it's crucial for making informed decisions that lead to growth and s…
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Authentically Create Connection in Your Online Business With Becky Brunner
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Today we're excited to share a repeat guest - Becky Brunner! One thing I've heard since the beginning of 2023 is how many people are craving connection. Whether that's in your personal life or it extends to your online business life and community, I'm seeing people really digging into all that community has to offer. Becky is an expert at community…
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Growing & Marketing Your Podcast in 2023 With Kayla Wells
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Do you: Have a podcast Want to start a podcast in 2023 Have clients who have a podcast Want to market your business organically in 2023 If any of those apply to you, you're in luck friend! Today on the podcast our guest is Kayla Wells. Kayla is a powerful podcast manager and marketing mastermind and she's spilling all those secrets she gives to her…
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BookTalk: Our Favorite Books of 2022 with Kim Weldin
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It's here! We love online business and we love reading so every few months the podcast listeners indulge us by letting us share all the things we're reading - loving and hating! In this episode, Kim and I share our favorite fiction and non-fiction reads of 2022. Our lists are small but mighty. Stayed tuned for book reviews and butter balls! The Lin…
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An Honest and Real Social Media Growth Strategy for 2023 with Kim Weldin
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It's 2023 and today we're diving in to how you can grow your social media channels while being authentic, strategic, and NOT burning out! Meet Kim Weldin! Kim is a wife, mother, and online entrepreneur who has a passion for helping "momprenuers" succeed. She specializes in helping other momprenuers optimize their social media and Pinterest content …
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Personal Update: Clearing Digital Clutter + Following Joy In Your Business
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Welcome and happy 2023 to our podcast dreamer's family! Today on the podcast I'm spilling the beans on where we've been the last few weeks including: why I trashed my last podcast episode for the first time ever, how I manifested a word of the year even though I didn't want one, and the TikTok hack that led to a big epiphany for my life and busines…
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Lead with your Values: Actionable Steps to Confidently Serve Clients with Lindsay White
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Many online business owners get their start in the corporate world before they set out to become entrepreneurs. It's a place where we can learn some great skills, but we can also develop a faulty perception of how valuable our talents truly are when we’re playing by somebody else’s rules. My guest Lindsay White left her corporate job in 2019 and se…
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Planning Your Most Authentic New Year Yet [Behind the Scenes of Julie Calcote OBM]
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We're back with another behind-the-scenes episode! You guys have loved when I break down the inner workings of my own business so today we're bringing you behind the scenes of how I plan (or don't for a new year). In this episode we talk about: What I do before I ever start planning for a new year The questions I ask myself as I reflect on the past…
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Book Talk: Fall Reads and Winter TBR with Kim Weldin
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It might be turkey time, but Kim and I are BACK! We decided that during this holiday season, we would surprise you with a bonus episode all about what we’re reading, what we’ve read, and very importantly, what we’re excited to read! ENTER: Our Fall Reads + Winter TBR If you’re anything like us, during the holiday season, we love to listen to podcas…
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How to Grow and Protect Your Business During Down Times with Sarah Noked
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She's back! Our friend Sarah Noked is back and sharing about a topic I know is on many of our minds - what impact will a recession have on our business AND how to protect and grow our business in all types of economic climates. If you haven't yet met Sarah, she is the founder of Sarah Noked OBM. Her mission is simple: to empower online Entrepreneur…
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Embrace Ease in your Business by Streamlining your Client Processes with Shay Howard
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When it comes to our businesses, processes and systems might not be everybody’s love language. But that’s why we have this amazing community of online service providers to lean on to create the clarity and ease in our business that helps us thrive. I had the opportunity to chat with fellow OBM Shay Howard in October, and I loved learning about her …
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Things that will actually save you REAL time
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Friends, 2023 will be here before we know it! Wouldn’t you like to start the new year with a new rhythm or pattern that saves your time and sanity? Yes please! In today’s episode, I am sharing concrete ideas that you can take and successfully implement into your life. These ideas and strategies will save you time not only in your business, but your…
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Virtual Team Gift List: Our Best Ideas for 2022 with Kim Weldin
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Do you have a virtual team or co-workers and you're not sure what to gift them this holiday season? Today on the podcast Kim and I share our favorite gift ideas for the people that support you all year long. We've covered ideas for all budgets and even added some non-gift ideas too! Links: Find me on Instagram or at my website: www.juliecalcote.com…
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Should you start a podcast? One Year of the Podcast + Behind the Scenes
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Have you thought about starting a podcast? Or have you considered being a guest on podcasts to grow your business? Today on the show I'm breaking down what one year of running and growing a podcast has looked like behind the scenes - and things to consider if you want to do the same thing! The fun, connections, and marketing the Dreamer's Manual po…
Today on the podcast I'm digging into the 8 red (and yellow) flags I see most often in virtual hiring - both what they are and how what steps to take if you see these things come up when your hiring a team. Whether you're thinking of hiring someone for your business or you want to know how to show up better for your own sales calls, this episode …
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Rant: Social Media, Insecurity & Building a Business
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As someone who grew up before the age of Instagram and Facebook I sometimes still have a love/hate relationship with social media. Where I fall most days is a gratitude for the connection, opportunities, entertainment, and education I find online. BUT that doesn't mean that there aren't seasons where it feels hard. Today on the podcast we're diving…
I'm feeling called in this season to simplify, and declutter (physically and with my time). No matter how busy the day is, if I was doing what I most wanted to do, I feel happy and content. I believe staying aligned with your values by knowing what things don't fit into your life and business will not only bring you happiness but protect you from s…
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LIVE: Making Your Service Based Business Visible with Sarah Noked
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Do you feel like you're wasting your time chasing the ever-changing trends in social media? Do you have a simple, authentic plan you execute monthly to bring a steady stream of leads into your business? This week, Sarah Noked and I sat down inside of her Confident OBM Facebook Community to talk about this and so much more around our personal journe…
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Enneagram in Action: Using the Enneagram in Your Life and Business with Karissa Harrison
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The Enneagram is one of my favorite tools to gain insight into what motivates and influences us! I love learning how to apply it so we can strengthen our connections with each other, and learn how to support others in the way that’s most helpful for them. In this episode of The Dreamer’s Manual podcast, I dig into all of this with my guest, Karissa…
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Building a Binge-able Brand with Nikki Arensman
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How do you feel about your brand? I’ve been saving this guest interview all summer, and I’m so excited to share it with you now! If you’re intrigued by all things branding, this episode is for you! Today Nikki shares the fundamental things you must have in place with your branding so you’re positioned appropriately for your ideal client to find you…
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BookTalk: What We Read (and Loved) This Summer + Fall TBR Reading List
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It's been a long hot summer and Kim and I knocked out a big list of summer reads! Some we loved and some we hated... In this episode, we share what books we read these past few months and what we plan to read for the next three months. We consumed a whole lotta fiction, a few non-fiction and some great audiobooks for those times when we need to rea…
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Build an Emergency Proof Business with Kaci Ackerman: How to Prepare for the Unexpected
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Have you ever wondered what would happen to your business if life threw you an unexpected curve ball (or 10)? That’s exactly what happened to Kaci as she was diagnosed with and treated for cancer, had emergency surgery, got married, and moved out of state all in the beginning of 2021! Systems quite literally saved her business, and in this episode,…
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Planning Q4 with Ease to Have the Best Start in 2023
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Does talking about Q4 of this year fill you with excitement or dread? Today on the podcast I'm talking about how to start thinking about and planning for the last quarter of the year - even if you didn't start the year with massive goals or you did but want to throw your goals out of the window of a speeding train. If we can slow down to take an as…
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Behind the Scenes at Julie Calcote OBM: Our Fall 2022 Sprint & Q4 Plans
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One thing that's true for me as an OBM and as a person is that I love to hear about peoples' processes. Their behind-the-scenes moments. How they decided to do this vs. that. And their future dreams (and how that played out in reality). Today on this bonus episode of the podcast I'm pulling back the curtain and talking about how we plan and execute…
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6 Tips to Get You Hired for the Job you Want
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While I'm a big believer that things always work out the way they're supposed to I also believe in taking proactive action while working towards my dreams. Today on the podcast I'm taking all of my experience hiring employees and contractors online and offline and sharing 6 tips for improving your chances of getting hired for the job you want. Have…
Whether you've been in business a day or years one of the constants is that you'll need to have some tough conversations from time to time. This could be with a client, your team members, a team you're in charge of leading, or a fellow business owner. These include: Raising your prices Letting go of a client A team member not holding up their end o…
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Maximize Your Freedom with Systems: Start Today
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This is an episode close to my heart as an Online Business Manager (OBM). I have the privilege of getting to talk to online business owners every day and let's get real - at the worst, they can be overwhelmed and burnt out - and that's heartbreaking! At the least, most of us need support to streamline the things we do on a regular basis and it's th…
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Mid Year Check In: Celebrations and Setbacks
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Do you do a mid-year check-in for your life and business? I did one recently for 2022 and thought it could be helpful to talk about the real-life behind-the-scenes - what has gone as planned and what has totally gone off the rails. Today I share about my course launch, current clients, my OBM School mentorship, the crash and burn of my digital shop…
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How to Build a Sustainable and Profitable Agency without Burnout with Amy Lockrin
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Are you a solopreneur or service provider who is considering building a digital agency? Do you want to know where to start or how to know where to focus your energy to scale your agency? Today Amy shares answers to all of these questions and more! She gets to the heart of how to create the foundation for building a successful agency - without burno…
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Optimize Your UpWork: Create An Alternative Way to Sell as a Service Provider with Ericka Ige
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Have you been spinning your wheels trying to find clients on Facebook? Do you not know where to start with online marketing and visibility? Or do you need a little boost to your bottom line? Then this interview is for you! Ericka shares how you can create and optimize your profile on Upwork to successfully apply and be in demand for jobs and contra…
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Evergreen Visibility: How to Energy-Proof Your Marketing in 2022 and Beyond with Genevieve Christianson
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Are you burnt out thinking about marketing for your business - or worse yet, don't know where to start? As busy business owners, we are all looking for easy, sustainable, and most importantly successful systems to use in our business - and marketing is no exception. Today Genevieve of Neon Soul Marketing shares: How to grow your visibility without …
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Visibility on Repeat with Lisa Simone Richards
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You guys, I can’t even begin to say how phenomenal this conversation with Lisa Simone Richards was. I’ve been building an online business for more than four years and have been studying various PR and Marketing strategies for the length of that time, and I still learned some fantastic tips that I plan to use in my own business. Be sure to pull out …
Kim and I are BACK! It’s been a while since we talked books and we felt it was time. Especially as we move into a new season with more books being released. We’re talking about what we’re reading, what we’ve read, and most importantly 🤣what we’re excited to read! If you’re like us with a TBR as long as the script for Gone with the Wind… then listen…
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How to Create Valuable Authentic Content that Feels Good
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What’s your favorite way to create content? And I do mean favorite way. I ask this question because I know some people love to write. Others love to talk things out. Still others have fun hopping on camera and creating videos. No matter how you like to create content, what is it that keeps you creating? For me, I need to have the time and space to …
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Harnessing Your Secret Sauce as a Business Owner with Latrice Prater
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Latrice Prater is a Neurodivergent CEO of The Digital Solutions Team, a virtual agency providing tech and operations solutions to female business owners. Latrice is a wife and mother of 3, who currently resides in the Austin Texas area. She is fiercely passionate about people, personal and professional development, and harnessing her authenticity t…
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Setting Up Your Business For Success in the Summer
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Look, I don’t know what people in other parts of the country or world do when summer rolls around, but here in Alaska, we go hard! With the sun coming up before 5a and not setting until after 11p, we finally have a ton of daylight and amazing weather to get out and do things. AND WE DO! When you own your own business, that means setting it up so th…
Kari Roberts started her professional career as a Licensed Physical Therapist. In an effort to lean into more creative pursuits, and to bring in some additional money, she started a side business as a makeup artist. As she grew her side business, she talked about it. She’d done a great job of putting systems in place to help her succeed and stay on…
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Weekending: 4 Things I Learned in 4 Years in Business (My First IG Live!)
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I tried something new AKA messy action! Last week I recorded my first IG Live and can I tell you I was terrified? As soon as I got done recording I thought....'why was I so scared of that?'. If this sounds familiar I'd love to know what one thing you're scared of that you're going to try this week?! DM on Instagram @juliecalcoteobm Also if you're l…
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Keeping Your Creativity Cup Filled with Stephanie O’Keefe
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Knowing WHEN you are most creative is necessary when it comes to being productive, fulfilled, and timely with your projects. Especially when you have multiple demands on your time, *cough* little kids? *cough*. Listen as my friend Steph O’Keefe and I chat about keeping your creativity cup filled and how she does it while running a successful design…
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Weekending: Beekeeping and Seasons in Our Life
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While the title of today's weekending mini-episode also sounds like a very catchy soap opera it's also your permission slip to have your very own hot girl summer. Or as I like to call it - watermelon-palooza. If you want to hear about what it's like to keep bees, summer plans, and what not to do in this (or any season) of your life....press play. I…
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Succeeding as a Neurodivergent OBM with Danielle Ralston
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Neurodivergency has been a hot topic across all platforms in the last few years, but aside from being trendy, it’s also real. So much of the stigma surrounding neurodivergency is being trounced each and every day and it’s people like Danielle Ralston who are leading the charge. Danielle is ADHD and dyslexic and had been written off as being mentall…
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Weekending: Current Favorites Spring Edition
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Hi friends! Trying out something new with some paired-down mini-episodes, just me curled up with my laptop on the weekend sharing like we were hanging IRL over a cup of tea! Today I'm giddy to tell you about my latest obsessions including books (of course), what I'm drinking on the daily, and something big I'm training for in August. I'd love to kn…
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How to Find Clients When You're an Introvert
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Are you an introvert trying to figure out how to overcome your overwhelming dread of connecting with others to gain visibility for your business? It’s terrifying right? Every day someone is telling you to put a camera in your face in order to reach your ideal client. Or to hop on all the Zoom calls to find that deeper connection. Or even the dreade…
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How to Decide Who to Hire in Your Online Business
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Do you know you need support? Do you want to grow your business this year but aren't quite sure where to start? Have you run out of hours in the day and spend all your time working on someone else's business and not your own? If you identified with these questions then it's probably time (or past time) to make a hire in your business. But how do yo…
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3 Signs You're READY to Hire in Your Online Business
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Do you wonder if it's time to hire support for your online business? What are the signs that you're ready (or not)? Today's episode is a quick one but packed full of value! I'm sharing the 3 signs that you might be ready to make that first or next hire. AND because I don't believe in a one size fits all option we also share some alternatives to con…
