February 26, 2025

How to Find the Spirit of Your Business: 3 Key Aspects to Focus On

February 26, 2025/ Maggie Karshner

You're self-employment curious, but you're not even sure what your business is or does. It's not clear to you what your business does and what it means to know what it does. You want to have confidence in knowing the general form of your business. I'll help orient you to the basics of your business. This also addresses what's required of the Executive Summary and Company Description sections of a business plan.

February 24, 2023

Don't Let Rejection Plunge you into Despair! How to Prevail with Resilience!

February 24, 2023/ Maggie Karshner

This month's blog article is perfect for those of you who want to face rejection without catastrophizing. Rejection is the biggest hurdle for self-employed businesses. Self-employed business owners like you CAN have a more resilient attitude toward rejection. I'll provide a framework by using Daniel Pink's book, "Selling is Human", to analyze the rejection. I'll apply this framework to understanding a personal experience of rejection. Take rejection in a positive light and used it to improve your skills, rather than view it as a failure.

February 14, 2023

Is Starting a Business Worth It? Dare I Say, “Do Your Own Thing”!

February 14, 2023/ Maggie Karshner

Wondering if it’s a good idea to start a business in 2023? Ready to be a business owner but not sure it’s for you? Read for pros, cons, and a new movement idea.

August 25, 2022

Do You Need a Vacation? Learn the Secret to Taking Time Off When Self-Employed

August 25, 2022/ Maggie Karshner

Are you waiting for some future point of business stability before you go on vacation? Stop that! Learn how to plan for a self-employed vacation sooner rather than later. Whether your concerns are money, time or client experience, this article has you covered!

June 21, 2022

Honor Your Body: How is Self-Care Fundamental to Self-Employment?

June 21, 2022/ Maggie Karshner

You love learning, growing, and self-improvement. But what about "not-doing"? Do you love rest and make time for it, or do you treat it like a luxury or treat? Downshift out of "frantic" and give yourself permission to take care of your body's needs.

February 23, 2022

Don't Worry About Marketing Because You've Got a Team of Horses

February 23, 2022/ Maggie Karshner

No really, you do. Let me explain...

This blog article is for those who are struggling with too many marketing ideas, and not enough time. You want to navigate your marketing with tranquility and confidence. This article will clarify your marketing, resulting in a sane, reliable strategy for marketing your self-employed business.

October 29, 2021

3 Lessons to Help You be a Good Self-Employed White Person

October 29, 2021/ Maggie Karshner

For white people, it can be challenging to maintain the momentum of an anti-racist practice. When we think of anti-racism work in our self-employed business we often get even more stuck. Here’s a little update on my own practice and the huge shot in the arm it took over the summer!

September 27, 2021

Exploit Your Own Desire: the Insider's Reason to Ditch that MLM

September 27, 2021/ Maggie Karshner

Multi-level Marketing (MLM) can be a plenty contentious topic. Here I examine the fundamental flaw in the business model that guarantees a rep will be exploited by the company, no matter how amazing the product is.

August 26, 2021

How Self-Employed Social Justice Warriors Can Combat Capitalism Through Business

August 26, 2021/ Maggie Karshner

Your goal is for your business to benefit yourself, but it doesn't stop there, right? You want your small, self-employed business to benefit the world, but that does seem like a big and lofty goal. In this 3 minute read, I'll connect the dots and illustrate how your business creates change.

December 16, 2020

Seize the Holidays with this Terrific Vacation Strategy

December 16, 2020/ Maggie Karshner

How do you have a good vacation? Especially when there's nowhere to go? I've got the answer. It's called an email sabbatical and it's about to revolutionize your work/life balance.

August 31, 2020

How to Easily Optimize Your Self-Employed Workday

August 31, 2020/ Maggie Karshner

Are you feeling overwhelmed working an 8-hour self-employed day? Maybe you feel like you're working endlessly, but it's never enough? It's time for you to adopt the 5-Unit Day.

December 16, 2019

How to Get Quality When What You Have is Quantity: Networking for Extroverts

December 16, 2019/ Maggie Karshner

Networking often seems to come naturally for extroverts. But being a people lover doesn’t mean that networking doesn’t still come with pitfalls! In this article, I tackle the overwhelm and impersonality that can often plague extroverts so that you’re cultivating high-quality connections and not just a high quantity of connections.

November 26, 2019

Want to Feel Calmer? Learn How to Trust Your Marketing Inertia!

November 26, 2019/ Maggie Karshner

Marketing your business can often feel like a process of fits and starts. When we learn about the inertia that’s inherent in marketing we can find calm in the flurry or lack of activity that comes from marketing.

May 31, 2019

When was the last time you had fun?

May 31, 2019/ Maggie Karshner

Being self-employed can be fun, and it can also be stressful! How are you choosing to bring an assortment of types of fun into your life? Read on to hear my thoughts!

April 29, 2019

An Unexpected Tool for Living Your Best Life

April 29, 2019/ Maggie Karshner

Seeing as this blog is mostly about starting a self-employed business, I can see how an article on meditation might seem off topic. In actuality, I’ve found that meditation is a vital tool as a business owner. Read on to see if I can get you on the meditation bandwagon!

November 15, 2018

How to Embrace Self-Employment with Sanity

November 15, 2018/ Maggie Karshner

Sometimes it can seem like self-employment is a race with a very ambiguous finish line. It benefits no-one if you exhaust yourself, and yet it can be hard to shift gears so that you’re living a balanced life while building your business. Here’s a metaphor that seems to help bring sanity to the over-achiever inside each of us.

June 26, 2018

Unexpected Self-Employment Advice: Fire That Client

June 26, 2018/ Maggie Karshner

It might seem counter-intuitive, but firing a client can be vital to keeping your self-employed business afloat! Read on to learn more about why that is and also how to identify a client you should fire, and how to do the firing.

March 30, 2018

Feminism is the Strength You Need to Launch Your Business

March 30, 2018/ Maggie Karshner

Feminism has offered a critique of the working world, and I believe the trends it's noted have a correlation with trends I notice among women entrepreneurs. In addition to an explanation, I offer some strategies to bring feminism into your self-employed life.

January 30, 2018

Fantastic Coworking: 4 Steps to a Successful Work Date

January 30, 2018/ Maggie Karshner

This is for all the lonely solopreneurs who are struggling to understand why past coworking experiences didn't go well. The success of a work date comes from clear expectations. Regardless of if it’s body doubling, collaborative ad-hoc sessions, or a standing weekly appointment, I’ll help you clarify your goals for your coworking. By the end of this article, you’ll be on the path toward more productive and gratifying coworking sessions!

July 19, 2017

Keeping Centered in Your Business: Use Discernment

July 19, 2017/ Maggie Karshner

When we’re in business for ourselves it can be easy to get knocked off center and waste valuable energy trying to get back to center. Here are strategies I use in my business that may help you to stay centered or return to center quickly by using discernment.

Apr 21, 2025

Self-Employed and Stuck? 4 Parts of Marketing You Actually Need to Know

Marketing is a big umbrella that covers many, many different things. When coming up with a marketing plan, it can be difficult to focus in on the aspects of marketing that you really need to learn about. This article is for any aspiring self-employed business owner who wants to do it right. This overview will help you to understand all that's involved with a marketing plan, and help you zero in on the stuff you need to learn about.

Mar 31, 2025

Beat Your Weaknesses: How to Win as a Unique Self-Employed Business Owner

If you've never felt insecure when comparing yourself to others, this article isn't for you. For the rest of us normal people, we need to explore this and how it's impacting our current or future businesses. It's vital for self-employed businesses to understand their competitive advantages and disadvantages. But trying to understand this usually gets us stuck, demoralized, or frozen. Let me reframe competition and the dis/advantages of your business so that you can more easily succeed.

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