Balancing Your Life to Make Your Small Business Better
Guest blogger, Lindsey Paho, a writer at Professional Intern is back for another visit. This month her post focuses on the importance of a balance life for small business owners. Keeping your personal life in balance while ensuring your business stays in the black can be tough. And small business owners have an especially difficult time maintaining a healthy balance because the demands of a small business can easily bleed over into personal life. The line between work and relaxation can be easily crossed, especially if you tend to work from home as well as the office. Take a Break from...
read moreSaying No to Say Yes
You’re busily at work on a huge project. You have an end of day deadline, but you know you can make it: everything’s going perfectly. Then the phone rings, or you make that fatal mistake of checking your email, and your world comes crashing down. Another client or another boss needs their project done now. So now it’s crunch time. Someone has to win, and someone has to lose. This is something that’s incredibly hard for me to deal with. I’m not one of those people who loves the wooshing sound deadlines make as they fly by. I want things to be there on time,...
read moreBusiness Map
When you set up on a long trip to an unfamiliar location, you need a map. The same is true for your business. Discover the most common mistakes business owners make as the develop their business plan, and how to avoid them Want to join us? Click here to find out when the next session will be held! This session is offered at no charge by Roundpeg, an Indianapolis social media /web design firm.
read moreLessons from a Big Girl Vacation
I’ve had a real job for about 18 months, but I’ve never taken a real vacation. Sure, I had a couple days at Christmas and a few days for some minor surgery, but nothing lasting even a week. Until June 6, when I took two weeks off. For many people, taking two weeks away from their job is unthinkable. For someone at a small business, it’s even harder. I asked Lorraine for permission a year ago to take my dream trip to Egypt, a belated graduation gift. I wouldn’t just be out of the office–I would in all likelihood be without Internet access at all, and certainly...
read moreCooking With Grease: Cookbooks and Accountability
One of my personal goals this year is to increase the amount of new business I bring to Roundpeg. I know that my chances of success grow the more I set solid, achievable goals. I didn’t want to just “give it a shot” and hope for the best. Luckily, I have a plan. To accomplish my goals, I’m going to use…a cookbook. Now this might sound a little odd at first, but hear me out. In order to make good food, it helps if you follow a recipe, which outlines the ingredients and the steps to prepare the dish. If you follow the recipe and use the right ingredients, you...
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