How often do you find yourself in the same category as those you consider great? Well it’s happened to me again. Solopreneur.biz is in the running as the Best Coaching Blog of 2010.

Here’s where we need your help and your vote. If you find Solopreneur.Biz to be of benefit to your business, please go to Best Coaching Blog of 2010 and vote for our blog, which is currently on page 2…we need your votes to move to page 1! The contest is not only fun, but you can also see who else is nominated. The blogs listed are some of the best in the coaching industry. Get your feed reader ready, because you will not want to miss out on the great content. You can only vote once, so hop on over right now to vote.

When we from our readers we get so excited and we get comments like these all the time:

I am addicted to my Google Reader and I always get excited when I see a new entry for Solopreneur.biz. Janet is one of my main go-to-gurus for straight forward, easy to understand and implement business advice. She never steers me wrong. If it wasn’t for the Solopreneur.biz blog and her weekly biz tips, I would shudder to think about where my business would be.

Becki Noles
Virtual Accuracy Companies

WOW!!! Ohmygod, I knew NONE of these things! I’m a brand new subscriber – and I’m looking to your next set of Biz Tips.”

Martia Nelson
www.DogDancer.com

What I really like about Biz Tips is that it packs meaningful, helpful information in small bites. I always read it right away because I know that it’s worthwhile…it doesn’t require a big investment of time.

Nancy Fightlin
Sunnybrook Life Coaching

If one of these testimonials resonates with you, consider contacting us (link to contact form) with a testimonial of your own. We will add it to this site and our sister site and give you a backlink to your website as well.

Thank you for your confidence and vote!

Have you been to our Facebook Fan Page recently? I would love for you to go to the fan page right now and share your business insights with us. I would love to interact with you and have a meaningful discussion around creating the business of your dreams.

Recently we’ve talked about:

• How to know if your social media marketing is working

• More Facebook changes are in store

• How to drive quality traffic to your blog

• Blogs to watch during 2010

• and so much more!

I want to encourage you to take a few minutes to visit our discussion board. While you are on the discussion board, take a moment to introduce yourself and give your business a little shameless self promotion in “What’s Your Solopreneur Biz?“. Also, please feel free to start your own topics!

If you’re not already, go on over to our Facebook Fan Page and become a “fan” today! We would love to have your input in our discussions.

Have you been to our Facebook Fan Page recently? I highly encourage you to go to www.facebook.com/solopreneurbiz right now and share your business insights with us. I would love to interact with you and have a meaningful discussion around creating the business of your dreams.

Recently we’ve talked about:

The Top 50 Marketing Blogs To Watch in 2010
Most Fortune 100 Companies Don’t Get Twitter
HOW to Use Social Media to Grow Your Business
Biz Tips for Entrepreneurs
and so much more!

I want to encourage you to take a few minutes to visit our discussion board. While you are on the discussion board, take a moment to introduce yourself and give your business a little shameless self promotion in “What’s Your Solopreneur Biz?“. Also, please feel free to start your own topics!

If you’re not already, go on over to our Facebook Fan Page and become a “fan” today! We would love to have your input in our discussions.

Over the past few months, I have realized that many of my new clients are coming to me because they are making some basic mistakes in their businesses. The mistakes I see are much too common and they are preventing many businesses from thriving or even succeeding.

You have probably heard that 75% or more of small businesses don’t survive the first three years. Don’t let your business fall into this category. I have decided to do a free teleseminar called Top Ten Mistakes of Entrepreneurs because I want you to make sure your business is on the right track.

Mark your calendars for Thursday, August 20th at 8:00 p.m. ET (New York USA) for my teleseminar Top Ten Mistakes of Entrepreneurs. Join me to learn about some of these common mistakes made by both new and experienced entrepreneurs and how to avoid them.

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If you have read my newsletters or blog or purchased my books, then you are aware that I always want to provide more than what you expect. Truth be told, I am dedicated to helping your business grow. Even in this economy, there are great opportunities for success. It is not easy, but together we can do it.

Recent financial times have been tough. But does the sad state of the economy have to affect everyone? Well, I sure hope not. But the reality is that the average Coach is feeling the pressure of these hard times.

It means that you have to be extra savvy and conscious of where you invest your hard earned income. You also need to be diligent and work exceptionally hard to keep your clients coming back to you.

You may need to be extremely careful with your purchases. You may even have to pare down the number of resources that you use. There is no shame in that. It is just smart money managing.

But as a savvy business owner, you can thrive in hard times by being smart. Smart with your time and with your money. You need to recognize necessary and useful resources that can help you, especially one that exceeds its perceived value ten-fold or more.

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I really want you to succeed as a coach and I know these resources can make a difference.
I hope you will take advantage of this special offer – times of economic stress can be times of great growth for an entrepreneur. My hope is that these tools may be what you need to spur your growth.

Warmly,
Janet

There has been something bouncing around in my head since I heard Aretha Franklin sing and President Obama give his inaugural address.  It’s about freedom.  Which I have long known is one of my most cherished values.  Our President was speaking about freedom and at the same time he was speaking about responsibility.  The two are inescapably intertwined.  His words said, “… greatness is never a given. It must be earned.” And “we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work”.  He could have been talking about an entrepeneur – he could have been talking about you as you build your coaching business.

The freedom of being an entrepreneur thrills me on a daily basis.  I love to be the one who makes all the choices.  What to do, where to be, who to talk to, how to do it.  The list of decisions goes on and on and I don’t have to answer to anyone else who would do it differently.  It is my way.  Pure joy for my freedom loving heart.  At the same time, I am acutely aware that there is a lot of hard work involved to make sure that I make good decisions, ones that are tempered by information and input from others.  This is the responsibility of freedom. 

Being an entrepreneur requires an amazing amount of hard work.  As is true for our country in this time of change, “everywhere we look, there is work to be done.”  This is not something to feel discouraged about.  All your hard work in your business will reward you magnificently.  Too many coaches in the past have chosen fear and given up their dream.  Don’t follow them.  The information and support you need to succeed in freedom as an entrepreneur is out there.  This is the time for action. 

A diffilcut task well done is one of life’s richest rewards.  My coaching business brings me joy and freedom every day.  Yours can, too.  I think President Obama summed it up when he said, “Nothing is as defining of our spirit as giving our all to a difficult task.”  Let’s get to work.

Those that know me well know I am from Maine and that I love the state dearly although I have not lived there for almost 20 years.  This website shows you one of the the things I love about the state.  It’s a spirit, creativity and sense of fun paired with hard work that is rare.  The town of Bethel, Maine for the sake of publicity for their town built a giant snowman in 1999 that became the world’s record for snowmen.  Then they sat back to see who would break the record.  No one did.  Last winter they had record breaking snowfall and decided that was the incentive to break their own record.  You gotta love those Mainiacs!

Thus was the beginning of Olympia, the world’s largest SnowWoman.  Standing 122 feet tall and weighing an estimated 13 million pounds, she was the labor of love of an entire community.  She was adorned with hat, scarf, necklace and 30 foot spruce trees for arms.  You really need to see the pictures and check out the eyelashes.  The builders had a nice sense of humor. 

What I love about this story is how it shows the work ethic of the true Mainer – I don’t know too many places where people would be willing to stand inside a giant structure in order to shovel and pack snow.  Hard work for sure.  Another piece of this story that I love is that it is an example of someone thinking way outside the box and it working.  The project was the brainchild of the local Chamber of Commerce and Olympia became a tourist attraction for the month’s of her life.  The building process and the size of the project received press attention from all over the world and the Bethel area and its Chamber of Commerce benefited greatly.  As you are doing your own business planning, take a cue from those crafty Mainiacs and take a calculated step out of the box.    

Have you seen the blog game of Tag that is going around?  I have just been “tagged” by Linda Dessau of the Idea Generator blog in the game called 7 Things about Me.  Here’s how it works – if you are tagged, you write 7 wacky, offbeat, random or unknown things about yourself on your blog, link back to the person that tagged you and link forward to 7 other bloggers who you are tagging. Make sure to include these rules in your post and notify the people you are tagging either with a comment on their blog or a Twitter post. That’s it.  A great way to generate some traffic to your blog and help out some fellow bloggers at the same time.

On to playing the game with 7 Weird and Wonderful Things about me.

1. I am still in touch with many childhood friends and was visited today by a friend I had not seen in 25 years and we both live more than a thousand miles from our childhood homes.

2. I love photography and have thousands of photos I have taken stored on my computer.  If only I could find a good way to share them without tons of trouble.

3. I am a huge football fan.  My daughter is teaching me to love Clemson where she went to school in addition to Tennessee where I went.  And my father taught me to love the New England Patriots on his knee as a child.

4. My college degree was in botany and I worked for years as a chemist for a water department.

5. I can speak about 10 words of five different languages, but 20 words or more only in English.  Not counting Pig Latin, in which I am fluent.

6. I hate shopping.

7. My motto is “If it is not chocolate, it is not worth the calories.”  This helps a lot at this time of year when pumpkin and pecan pie are everywhere.

Now, my turn to say -”you’re it!”.  Here are my choices for seven bloggers who I think you will find interesting and who I would like to hear unusual things about - 

Sophfronia Scott – Business by the Book

Bea Fields – Biz Tools Blog

Maia Berens – All About Life Coaching

Becki Noles – The Coach Virtual Assistant

Suzanne Falter Barnes - Get Known Now Blog 

Michael Bungay Stanier – Great Work Blog

Michelle Ulrich – The Virtual Nation

Have fun with this – networking and business building can really be just that!