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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..…
Don't fear A.I. -- use it to enhance your authentic creativity ✨
It’s been the biggest business story of 2022 (and 2023 thus far) – how AI (artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT and Midjourney) is disrupting education, work, and the arts.
"This shift marks the most important technological breakthrough since social media." --Time Magazine
ChatGPT is the fastest growing internet service ever... faster than FB, YouTube, Gmail, etc.
Real estate agents are using AI to create home listings.
Markete…
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 sometim…
The Means Never Justify The Ends -- If You Care About Your Values
Your ambitions can be as grand as you want them to be. What inspires you? Dream it! Yet...
Your ambitions, no matter how big, are not wrong as long as they align with your values.
However, the more attached to your timeline, the more you're in danger of "means to an end" thinking, which is the beginning of wrongdoing:
- "The goal is what matters."
- "I'll do whatever it takes to get there."
- "The outcome is more important than the journey."
- "As long as I achieve my objective, it d…
Building trust is more important than making the sale.
The next time an expert tells you that a marketing or conversion tactic “works”... ask this question:
“It might work to convert 10% of the audience… but does it build trust with the other 90%... or would it feel salesy to them?”
Years ago, I used to care only about the small percentage of my audience who converted. I was all about the sale, about getting the transaction. What about the remainder of the audience? I thought of them as “illusory clie…