Building a Business Ain't Easy

Be Back Soon | Seasonal Change is a Coming After 95 Episodes, it is time to step back and evaluate the direction I want to take the podcast. So I’m going to take a few weeks off and determine where we want to go and how I can add the most value in helping you navigate the waters of growing your new business.   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building my new business for local small business owners to help them grow their business. I’ll share the struggles all new business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! YouTube Channel – Training for Local Small Business Owners Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u My Main Website: LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com  

 Play the Movie of Your Business Forward For many of you, you have a vision of your business 3 to 5 years in the future. But what does that look like? Feel like? If a movie was made about your business how would it play out? What steps would it show you took and how you got there? Are the things you are doing today the same things that would be shown in that movie?   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building my new business for local small business owners to help them grow their business. I’ll share the struggles all new business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! YouTube Channel – Training for Local Small Business Owners Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u My Main Website: LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com  

    Are You Working on the 5 Year Vision? With so many things on my plate to do in my business, I struggle with what to work on. But I realize that the key is to focus on the ultimate 5-year vision. By staying the course on what adds to the vision it will help you get there.  When you don’t focus on the mission, you just relive the same year over and over and never get any closer to the goal.   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building my new business for local small business owners to help them grow their business. I’ll share the struggles all new business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! YouTube Channel – Training for Local Small Business Owners Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u My Main Website: LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com  

Jump Starting My Content Creation Again My day gig has been taking up so much of my time the past 6 weeks that I stopped my content creation. Now that I'm able to start working on it again, I feel stuck and can't seem to get back into the habit. Time to take my own advice and startup better habits!   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building my new business for local small business owners to help them grow their business. I’ll share the struggles all new business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! YouTube Channel – Training for Local Small Business Owners Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u My Main Website: LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com  

    Should I Grow My Day Gig or Not? Like many of you, I have a day gig that pays the bills. I also have the opportunity to grow this business. But is it what I really want to do? After all, my passion and goal is to build my new business, not my old. But can't I grow both? Can't both be successful? Can You Build Two Businesses at a Time?   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building my new business for local small business owners to help them grow their business. I’ll share the struggles all new business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! YouTube Channel – Training for Local Small Business Owners Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u My Main Website: LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com  

Who Is Really Controlling the Chaos in Your Business? Is Your Business Running You or Are You Running Your Business? The past few weeks have been crazy busy. Then, I had an ah-ha moment the past couple of days. I was forced to stop the craziness to deal with something else and realized who really controls the chaos of my business. How maybe there is more time than we realize. It is all about stopping the current madness to see it.   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building an online business for local small business owners to help them grow their business. I’ll share the struggles all new business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! YouTube Channel – Training for Local Small Business Owners Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u My Main Website: LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com

  Stop Buying Courses till You Take Action! Sometimes we can spend too much time and energy on learning before we do any of the doing. I’ve come to realize that I’ve bought a lot of course but am I taking any action? Let’s talk about the truth of what most of us tend to do with these courses we buy.   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building an online business for local small business owners to help them grow their business. I’ll share the struggles all new business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! YouTube Channel – Training for Local Small Business Owners Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u My Main Website: LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com        

UGG! What a Crazy Week! This past week has been crazy. Sometimes our “day” responsibilities get in the way of our accomplishing our other goals. This has been a week of running 24/7 and yet still not accomplishing the goals I set out for the week with. This happens more than we want, but the key is pushing forward and not giving up.   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building an online business for local small business owners to help them grow their business. I’ll share the struggles all new business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! YouTube Channel – Training for Local Small Business Owners Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u My Main Website: LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com        

4 Fears Holding You Back | Fear of Failure | Fear of Success | Fear of Finding Out | Fear of Looking Stupid | This week I share an episode from my Local Small Business Coach podcast where I discuss the 4 fears that tend to hold people back from taking their business (and life) to the next level.   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building an online business for local small business owners to help them grow their business. I’ll share the struggles all new business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~ Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! YouTube Channel – Training for Local Small Business Owners Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u My Main Website: LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com        

    Discovering Your Old Content Isn't as Bad as You Thought | This past week I decided to go back and look at the videos I created in the past. You know what? They actually weren’t that bad and can actually help me with my mission to help folks learn their numbers better.   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building an online business for local small business owners to help them grow their business. I’ll share the struggles all new business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! YouTube Channel – Training for Local Small Business Owners Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u My Main Website: LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com

    Pivoting My Course | Listening to What Your Tribe Wants I thought I knew what my next course should be and then I started to realize I was missing what my badass tribe was asking me for. I discovered a hunger that was needing to be satisfied. So I plan to pivot and listen.   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building an online business for local small business owners to help them grow their business. I’ll share the struggles all new business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   My Websites Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com YouTube Channel – Training for Local Small Business Owners Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u      

The Vacation that Sucked When you are building a new business, especially when doing a full-time job, all your time is taken up with a job, your side hustle, and your family. You wait forever for that precious vacation time. It has been a long year and I finally was able to take 4 days off. Not even a full week. Let’s just say, that getting away for a few days just didn’t happen.   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building an online business for local small business owners to help them grow their business. I’ll share the struggles all new business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   My Websites Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com YouTube Channel – Training for Local Small Business Owners Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u      

Time to Create Some Youtube Training Videos I am going to venture out and create some YouTube videos to help my tribe of badass business owners that listen to my other podcast – Local Small Business Coach. I want to do some podcast episodes that involve helping them with their business numbers and while the podcast is a great tool for information, some folks learn better via visual aids. So I hope to combine the two to help my tribe. Here is a link to view the one I just did on Markup vs Margin   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building an online business for local small business owners to help them grow their business. I’ll share the struggles all new business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   My Websites Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! BuildingABusinessAintEasy.com StartALocalSmallBusiness.com LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com Local Small Business Coach Membership Site Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u      

Monkey Mind Strikes Again Have you ever found that your brain gets stuck and you can't think through the thought you're trying to have? Well, that's what I've been suffering from this week. On this episode, I'm going to share why it's driving me nuts because I have some thoughts I need to think through. See, it’s not just you! Monkey Mind is Striking Again!   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building a business for local small business owners. These are struggles all business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   My Websites Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! BuildingAnOnlineBusinessAintEasy.com StartALocalSmallBusiness.com LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com Local Small Business Coach Membership Site   Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u   AFFILIATE LINKS Here are two books I highly recommend for better branding: Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen How to Write Copy That Sells: The Step-By-Step System for More Sales, to More Customers, More Often    

Interruptions While trying to update you on my podcast adventures, I keep being derailed with interruptions. Isn't this how it goes in our business?   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building a business for local small business owners. These are struggles all business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   My Websites Course: Create over 30 Different Sales Ideas to Grow Your Local Business Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! BuildingAnOnlineBusinessAintEasy.com StartALocalSmallBusiness.com LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com Local Small Business Coach Membership Site   Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u   AFFILIATE LINKS Here are two books I highly recommend for better branding: Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen How to Write Copy That Sells: The Step-By-Step System for More Sales, to More Customers, More Often    

  Where O Where Is My Podcast Here is an update about the podcast the disappeared plus a lesson I’m taking away from it that we all could learn   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building an online business for local small business owners to help them grow their business. I’ll share the struggles all new business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   My Websites Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! BuildingABusinessAintEasy.com StartALocalSmallBusiness.com LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com Local Small Business Coach Membership Site Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u      

Oh No! What Happened?! Ugh! What happened to my podcast…It disappeared! Not this one, my other one! And a big lesson learned!   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building an online business for local small business owners to help them grow their business. I’ll share the struggles all new business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   My Websites Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! BuildingABusinessAintEasy.com StartALocalSmallBusiness.com LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com Local Small Business Coach Membership Site Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u      

Knowing When to Take Things off Your Plate When you are balancing a day gig, starting a new business, family and a host of other commitments, it is easy to get run down and behind on your commitments. Being sick is another problem you can face. The past few weeks I’ve done a lot of thinking. I can no longer let my businesses suffer due to having too many fires in the iron. So today, I share why I need to work on taking things off my plate.   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building a business for local small business owners. These are struggles all business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   My Websites Course: Create over 30 Different Sales Ideas to Grow Your Local Business Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! BuildingAnOnlineBusinessAintEasy.com StartALocalSmallBusiness.com LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com Local Small Business Coach Membership Site   Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u   AFFILIATE LINKS Here are two books I highly recommend for better branding: Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen How to Write Copy That Sells: The Step-By-Step System for More Sales, to More Customers, More Often    

Creating a Much Needed Email Funnel A sense of accomplished accomplishment! I fixed one of my much needed email series. It will take a few weeks to see the results but I’m excited to have it done and now ready for tweaking!   Cuz Building a Business Ain’t Easy   Each week on the Building a Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building a business for local small business owners. These are struggles all business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   My Websites Course: Create over 30 Different Sales Ideas to Grow Your Local Business Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! BuildingAnOnlineBusinessAintEasy.com StartALocalSmallBusiness.com LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com Local Small Business Coach Membership Site   Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u   AFFILIATE LINKS Here are two books I highly recommend for better branding: Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen How to Write Copy That Sells: The Step-By-Step System for More Sales, to More Customers, More Often    

  Frustrated Trying to Work From Home? Ugh, I feel your pain on this weeks episode of the Building a Business Ain't Easy Podcast   Cuz Building an Online Business Ain’t Easy     Each week on the Building an Online Business Ain’t Easy Podcast, I share my journey with building an online business for local small business owners. These are struggles all business owners face and together we can realize we aren’t alone on this crazy journey. ~~~   My Websites Course: Create over 30 Different Sales Ideas to Grow Your Local Business Join the Badass Local Small Business Owners Facebook Group! BuildingAnOnlineBusinessAintEasy.com StartALocalSmallBusiness.com LocalSmallBusinessCoach.com Local Small Business Coach Membership Site   Follow Me on Twitter @tadams4u   AFFILIATE LINKS Here are two books I highly recommend for better branding: Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen How to Write Copy That Sells: The Step-By-Step System for More Sales, to More Customers, More Often