How do you cultivate (take care of) your business & creativity so you can do your best work? Do you set time aside for growing your business daily or weekly? Or doodle every morning to get your creativity kickstarted? Do you invest in events, classes or resources. Tell us how you keep your business + creativity growing! This month on OMHG we are talking about growing our … [Read more...] about Question of the Week: How do you cultivate your business?
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Cultivate Your Business: Plan & Plant for Growth
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right! ~Susan Orlean We all start with an empty plot, a vast field of potential that we could plant absolutely anything in. The sheer amount of … [Read more...] about Cultivate Your Business: Plan & Plant for Growth
Flashback Friday: from the April archives
Come for an adventure into the April archives to see what was happening on OMHG this month through the ages to help you grow your business & creativity... 2013 Why Spring is SO Awesome for Your Business by Jenna Herbut of Make It! University Reimagine Mentorship: Each One Teach One by Jenelle Montilone of TrashN2Tees Creating an Ethical Eco-Based Business by … [Read more...] about Flashback Friday: from the April archives
Shoots & Roots: Growing Our Businesses Together
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. Julia Cameron, The Artists Way Hello April! Is it Spring where you are? Outside my window snow and ice are coating all the little buds and shoots in the garden, school is closed for a snow day, I'm starting to wonder if maybe Spring has forgotten us … [Read more...] about Shoots & Roots: Growing Our Businesses Together
The Truth Test: Staying True to Your Ethics
Sometimes the hardest person to stand up to, is yourself. As a small business owner, there most often is no other option. With no manager to keep you in check, no HR department to run a question by, and no corporate attorney to question your methods, most days the only person you have is yourself. You get to play good cop (Woo! We beat our sales goal - high five). But, you also … [Read more...] about The Truth Test: Staying True to Your Ethics
