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Profound Ease while Building Your Authentic Business…
Profound Ease while Building Your Authentic Business…Don’t we all wish that building an authentic business can feel “easy”? That just about any action you take in your business results in greater income? I offer a couple of reframes in this video that I hope will support true ease...
Posted by George Kao, Authentic Business Coach on Friday, September 1, 2023
Don’t we all wish that building an authentic business can feel “easy”?
That just about any action you take in your business re…
Aim for service, rather than fame.
There’s an unspoken assumption in marketing:
More followers/fans lead to more clients, more fulfillment, more freedom.
This is like saying more money equals more happiness.
These are seductive ideas. They contain a grain of truth, but they also come with an unexpected price.
In this post I’ll share my “more followers” experience. It’s not all that it’s chalked up to be…
In my first few years in business, I grew my email list to more than 10,000 subscribers.
It led to having some clients, b…
Be aware of the values you’re being influenced into…
Observe the business experts you follow: notice the core message of their emails, social media, and websites…
Are they trying to tempt you with big incomes and large followings? "Make 7 figures!” "Get one hundred thousand followers!”
By selling wealth and fame, they are leading some people towards anxiety and depression.
A business built on extrinsic (or external) motivations will eventually foster unhappiness.
On the other hand, an authentic business – based on intrinsic motivations – te…
Are you spending enough time on your business? (Time requirements for an authentic business)
Time requirements for building an authentic businessIf you don't create your own structure, someone else will create it for you, resulting in less autonomy and freedom. Here's the blog post I mentioned in the video -- https://www.georgekao.com/blog/businesstime
Posted by George Kao, Authentic Business Coach on Friday, March 24, 2023
After coaching many people on how to grow their business, I find this recurring issue:
Many people are not spending enough time on the right actions..…
The Three Paths of Solopreneurship: Wait to Respond – Funnel Hustle – and The Middle Way of Authentic Business
In my 13 years of business, I’ve noticed 3 ways to approach solopreneurship:
Wait to Respond
The way that most service providers do it is to just wait for random word-of-mouth. You might get a few clients a year, if you’re lucky. Some of them might be a great fit, and some will not be.
Why? Because starting a business is, understandably, so overwhelming as well as confronting (to one’s self-esteem) that sometimes, avoiding marketing is all we feel we can do.
Yet, with this path, it can take…