How to Meet Your Top Small Business Goals

How to Meet Your Top Small Business Goals

You’ve been growing your business for a while, but maybe you’re stuck you feel that you’ve hit a wall and need some direction.Or maybe you are your business is soaring and ready to move to your next level. But you are not sure where to start.
Here are 3 ways to help you make progress towards your business (and maybe other)goals :

  1. Invest in your education. Many times we are hesitant to pay for a course or conference that can help us get to where we want to be. Let’s face it, Google is great, but at some point we may not even know what to Google. Take advantage of online courses, business conferences, books, podcasts, etc. Check out our Resilient Conference playback here.
  2. Find some business accountability partners. Everyone needs business buddies- people who will ask you the tough questions and hold you accountable for the things you need to do. Our Facebook group Makers Making Moves connects you to a private group of entrepreneurs just like yourself who also have similar goals and needs.
  3. Write down your goals and make sure they are SMART goals. Be sure to outline action steps and timelines for each goals.
  • Specific (simple, sensible, significant).
  • Measurable (meaningful, motivating).
  • Achievable (agreed, attainable).
  • Relevant (reasonable, realistic and resourced, results-based).
  • Time bound (time-based, time limited, time/cost limited, timely, time-sensitive).

Let us know what some of your goals are and which of methods have helped you stay on track with your business goals.

At the start of the year, most people are focused on goal setting . The same is true for small businesses. We get a change to envision our businesses progressing and dream big dreams.Here are 5 of the most common small business goals :Increase profitability of businessBe more productiveImprove business processesScale business for maximum growthImprove time management

Which goals would you add to this list? Which goals would you omit?

by J. Harris

5 Craft Blogs for Kids & Parents Who Love to Craft

5 Craft Blogs for Kids & Parents Who Love to Craft

Written by Jandi Harris

I’m sure you’ve been there before. Maybe your kids were home for an extended period of time (i.e. summer break, winter break, a weekend) or perhaps they had limited access to technology and all you kept hearing were the infamous words “We’re bored.” Those two words can either spark creativity in parents / adults or they can irritate the heck out of parents.

Nothing beats bored kids than the opportunity to have them get creative with crafts. Here are five blogs that have awesome ideas for kids who enjoy crafting. You can thank us later, when your kids are occupied for hours at a time.

  1. Hello, Wonderful Crafts here range from paper crafts to crafts using recycled items.

Photo Credit: Hello Wonderful – DIY Paper Hydrangea Flowers

2. Lia Griffith Most of the crafts listed here utilize felt! Who know you could do so much with felt? Felt pencil toppers are perfect for  a back to school craft with your kids.

Photo credit: Lia Griffith

3. Childhood 101 – This site has great ideas for tweens, who are not as easy to impress with craft ideas. There are ideas for jewelry and accessories, paper crafts, and wearable arts.

Photo credit: Childhood 101-Create Your Own Decorated Tennis Shoes

4. Tinker Lab – What I love most about this site is that it breaks activities down by age. The activities range from babies (4 months +) through elementary school. There are many awesome art and science crafts projects that boys and girls would enjoy.

Photo Credit: Tinker Lab –Kids Printable Postcard

5. Kids Craft Room – This site has printable galore as well as kids crafts, art projects for kids, holiday specific crafts, just for fun crafts and seasonal crafts. Sign me up! With this site on board, your kids will never say the dreaded “I’m bored, mom” again.

Photo Credit: Kids Craft Room (Emoji Bath Bombs)