Weekday Working

Life and Business as a Business Owner

Let’s talk about life and business as a business owner. As the owner of FieryFX my week actually starts on Friday when I do a debrief of the week before. I take time to reflect on what worked, what didn’t and what I have coming up. Then, over the weekend, sometimes we’re working and playing,…

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How to Make the Next 90 Days Count

Have you seen them yet? Those insidious posts on social media telling you the holidays are coming? It’s only X number of days until Christmas…as if I needed another reminder about how fast the end of the year is coming! Besides a little holiday anxiety, which I’m feeling, how are you feeling about the next…

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Strengthen your Business Foundation with a Structural Toolkit

As you’re building your big, amazing, growing business, it’s important to ask yourself: are you building on a solid foundation? Because there’s an awful lot of misinformation in this digital era – misinformation that makes for an awfully shaky business foundation. And nobody wants a shaky foundation! So whether you’re fixing a shaky structure or…

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Gwen gets an interview

Technology: the Entrepreneur’s Bulldozer

I’ve recently completed watching the first season of Downton Abbey (thanks Amazon Prime). Yup, I’m hooked. A scene near the end of the season that really delighted me was when Lady Sybil turned Lord Grantham away from his library because the housemaid Gwen was interviewing for a secretary position with the gentleman that had come…

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The Fortune is in the Follow Up

Automating Follow Up

For me, remembering to follow up is a hard thing. Sure, I can create a task or appointment, but those follow up appointments and tasks tend to get lost in the avalanche of actual meetings and urgent to-do items. Plus, following up is usually something that needs to be done at a certain time. I…

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