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How to Develop Resilience When You’re Self Employed

By MBO Partners

The pathway to success as a self employed small business owner is not straight, flat, or smooth. It’s a twisting, uphill climb through terrain that is often difficult. Achieving sustainable success requires grit, discipline, stamina, and a healthy risk orientation to deal with all the ups-and-downs, uncertainties, and head-spinning changes that come with the job….

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How to Develop Learning Agility as an Independent Professional

By MBO Partners

Succeeding as an independent professional is difficult if you are focused on only doing certain things a certain way. Instead, running your own business is more like an ongoing process of metamorphosis—adapting and making changes so you can grow and thrive. Staying relevant and competitive involves continual effort to nimbly adapt your skills and offerings…

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Webinar: How to Generate Breakthrough Opportunities by Leveraging Your Network

By MBO Partners

Does a majority of your new business come from referrals? Do you often wish you had a bit more control over when and where your next client will come from? In How to Generate Breakthrough Opportunities by Leveraging Your Network, Chalyse Elsasser discusses how to reach your fullest potential and peak productivity by leveraging the right relationships in…

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What Tax Reform Means for Independent Professionals & Their Clients

By MBO Partners

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is the biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax code in more than 20 years. While formal guidance on the tax code has yet to come out, it is clear that these new changes will have a big impact on both individuals working as independent contractors as well as the…

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Steps to Build Your Million-Dollar, Independent Business

By MBO Partners

The rise of one-million-dollar, one-person businesses in the past five years is the biggest trend in employment today, offering the widest range of people the most ways to earn a living while having the lifestyles they want. In The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Elaine Pofeldt outlines the pathways to joining this entrepreneurial movement, synthesizing advice from hundreds…

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Cultivating a Leadership Network

By MBO Partners

Working as an independent professional means that you get to be your own boss, set your own hours, create your own goals—you can do most of your work all on your own! However, being a successful independent professional requires developing and cultivating a strong network and establishing key relationships with others. Having strategic connections and…

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Why Branding is Important for Independent Contractors

By MBO Partners

What is Branding? As a member of the independent workforce, why is brand important to you? You have a reputation—whether you deliberately spend time crafting it or not—and that reputation is your brand. Your brand is built on what you deliver and how you deliver it. Ask yourself these powerful questions: Are you actively managing…

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Becoming an Independent Consultant: Are you ready?

By MBO Partners

Going independent is on a lot of people’s minds. What’s not to get excited about? Greater freedom and flexibility. The possibility of increased satisfaction and wellness. Maybe even a chance to earn more. While it’s become the right path for many to follow, it’s a choice to be considered carefully and, ultimately, not the best…

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5 Steps to Restart, Recharge and Revive Your Marketing Right Now

By MBO Partners

Are you on track to meet your goals this year?  You don’t have to wait until the end of the year to assess your accomplishments and whether you are on track to meet your goals.  In this webinar, John Jantsch , marketing consultant, speaker and best selling author of Duct Tape Marketing, explained the 5 things you…

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Creating and Marketing Your Website as an Independent Consultant

By MBO Partners

Erin Daniels of Design for People was the guest speaker of our webinar on creating and marketing your website as an independent consultant. In today’s increasingly “online first” age, your website is often the first impression people will have of your business so it’s important that it reflects your brand, services, and skills. Erin, founder of…

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