Which Role Should You Hire First in Your Business?
“Get a VA to do it.” If you’re an overworked business owner, chances are you’ve heard those words more times than you can count. And you’ve probably taken that advice and hired more virtual assistants, or VAs, than you’d care to admit. Let me guess … you still feel...
The Power of Quarterly Planning in Maximizing Your Business Success
In this article, we'll explore the many benefits of quarterly planning and provide you with practical tips to help you get started.
4 Ways Growth Can be Painful in Your Business
There’s a reason we have the term “growing pains” in our collective vocabulary: growth can be painful! In your business, the periods that are the most stressful and overwhelming are usually also the periods where you experience the greatest growth and forward...
How to Establish Systems for Clear & Efficient Communication
How often do the following scenarios happen within your company on a regular basis? You spend too much time answering questions that should have been directed at someone else.Someone who works with your company has to send three different types of messages for one...
How to Set Goals You’ll Keep
How happy are you with the way you typically set goals for your business? Do you keep your goals once you’ve set them, or do you struggle to follow through? In my last post, I outlined the crucial first step in the goal-setting process: quarterly review. Today, I’m...
Three Steps for Making Better Choices
Do you struggle to make decisions for your life or business, because you never know if you’re making the “right” choice? The truth is, you may never know if you made THE “right choice” at the moment, and chances are there’s more than one option that could be right...
How to Scale Your Business
Have you reached the upper limit of your productivity in your business? Are you doing all you can, but it still just doesn’t feel like you’ve grown your business to where you want it to be? If you’ve been running things as a CEO who is also the face of your...
How to Stop Failing at Meeting Your Goals
Here are my best tips for achieving the goals you set for yourself, whether they’re for life or business or both!
My Top Strategies for Making Clear Decisions
Today, I’m sharing my top strategies for making decisions when there isn’t a clearly “right” answer. I have used these strategies to set business goals, make decisions that would move my company forward, and even to make challenging personal decisions.
How to Get Un-Stuck when Making Decisions
Recently I wrote an article for APeeling Magazine about how to get out of your head when you’re faced with an important decision. Today I’m sharing some similar ideas, but if you’d like to read the original article, click here. I’ll bet if I asked you to track all...
I'm Gwen Bortner, and I've spent 40 years turning chaotic businesses into well-oiled machines across 47 industries. Now, my team and I work with women entrepreneurs to build sustainable, fulfilling businesses aligned with their values.