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These three tools help us maximize our online sales: ThriveCart, Deadline Funnels, Kit. We couldn’t imagine selling products without them.

When many of us go into business, pricing often becomes sort of an afterthought. Here are 5 pricing mistakes to avoid in your business.

I helped co-found a paid advertising agency Till Agency It has been the fastest-growing service-based business that I have ever helped build.

6 tasks we’ve outsourced this year to spend more time with our son Jack, grow our business faster and focus our time on the areas of our business we love most.

How we use videos to cut back on emails and meetings. Loom is a free Chrome extension that can be easily used to create and share screencasts with others.

This post is about preventing difficult client situations before they happen. While there a whole lot of things one can do to prevent such situations, much of learning how to avoid difficult clients comes down to experience. Here’s our best attempt at sharing what we’ve learned from our experiences so that you might have one less difficult client experience.

Once in a while we work with difficult clients. It happens—even after years of being in business and developing different ways to screen prospective clients. Chances are you’ll work with a difficult client, too. Maybe that’s why you’re here in the first place. You’re already “in it” and you’re looking for ways to deal with it. Or maybe you’re looking to avoid this experience altogether.

Blakely Little of Blakely Made shares about making a living as an artist and her recent collaboration with Anthropologie. She is giving us her insights into creative work, staying inspired, to creating when you don’t feel like it, and much more!

Jamie Kutchman of Marigold and Grey, shares how her past work impacted her business, how a pivot in business led to growth, and tips for client gifts.

Christina Scalera, attorney and founder of The Contract Shop, joins Davey for a discussion on effective client contracts. We cover questions like who needs a contract, common contract mistakes, what needs to be in a contract, and how to work the contract into the client experience.

Business coach Reina Pomeroy of Reina + Co. discusses how to create a healthy mindset around money and turning a profit, and how to build giving into your business.

Terri Baskin, a Virginia-based international wedding photographer, discusses the role legacy played in becoming a wedding photographer, the importance of having a strong why, and how to find your niche in a saturated market.

While it can definitely feel like everyone around you is offering a similar service (and maybe for a lower price), the fact is that some people are making a really good living in your market. So why do those people seem to have no problem with a ‘saturated’ market?

Elisa Watson, co-owner of Showit and founder of the SiNes of Life podcast, provides insights on how to approach personality tests and how it relates to work, the differences between the letters that form the MBTI test, and how we can practically use this information.