Why Are We Shouting? with Jill Salzman

What’s In This Episode: Remember back in January of this year how Jill talked about going and getting the big bucks to scale The Founding Moms fast and furiously in The Funding Question, Pt. 1 ?   A LOT has happened since then. This week Jill closes out her thoughts about all of the funding stuff that entrepreneurs chase after when they begin to learn about angel investors and crowdfunding options...

What’s In This Episode: Has anyone ever signed you up for something without your knowledge?   Sounds like a really basic oversight that should never happen to anyone. Then there's Jill, who shares her story about the time a woman meant well but ended up putting her company into debt for thousands of dollars. Find out what happened and how she avoided a major lawsuit. Jill Salzman turns the mundane...

What’s In This Episode: How, exactly, do you get out of a bad situation with a customer or client when you’re in the middle of said situation? This week’s big business blunder features MyMovementality’s Jordan Wentz who tells her scary story about that one time she was on tour overseas and it wasn’t going so well because she was promised some pretty basic things but management couldn’t get its act...

What’s In This Episode: When the going gets tough, how can we entrepreneurs rest assured that we’ll be alright? The media, our colleagues, and even our parents can make us feel pretty badly about how we’re doing as we grow our businesses. If we don’t grow them faster stronger smarter better, those insecurities can really start to pile up. So do you have a firm grasp on how you’re measuring your ow...

What’s In This Episode: How often do you think about how you do the things you do to run your business? We don’t often take a close, hard look at how we run our businesses. Maybe some things used to go well. Perhaps a couple of things might be popping right now. But is everything working exactly the way it should, or are you continuing to run your business the way you’ve always done it?   Jill Sal...

What’s In This Episode: Why do companies agree to pay us and then try to back out of it when it’s too late?   Small businesses are taken advantage of all the time. There’s a whole host of reasons that companies decide they don’t need to pony up and the loss falls squarely onto YOU…the entrepreneur that has more to lose than they do. It’s unfair, uncalled for, and something that we may have more po...

What’s In This Episode: Ever notice that the money is flowing –  on paper – but something just doesn’t feel right?   When the going gets tough, especially when it comes to income, entrepreneurs tend to justify decisions through the magic that we call math . MomSub.com ’s Diane Moca knows it all too well. She shares her business blunder about the time that she created a paper money problem and what...

What’s In This Episode: Hormones. Who need them?   And yet, those little chemical messengers mess with our systems all the time. They affect our moods. They affect our work output. We can’t escape them, and they carry on rain or shine depending on the day, the time, and the client. So why aren’t we talking about it more often? Let’s explore why our hormones are out to get us and more importantly,...

What’s In This Episode: What happens to you when folks can’t find things on your website? Do you go to a dark place? Blame it on the rain? Wonder why you ever bothered to build a website in the first place? Jill wants you to really think about all those users who stop by and can’t do the things you want them to do. It might be your fault. It might be their fault. It might be Mark Zuckerberg’s faul...

#71 - What’s In This Episode: There are graphic designers who’ll create your logo for $5. You can find accountants who’ll crunch numbers for $10 an hour. What about lawyers that charge $35 per hour? Meet Bold City Legal’s Larissa Bodniowycz. She’s an attorney who launched her firm with incredibly low rates because she thought she’d grow her clientele easily that way. You can probably guess how tha...

What’s In This Episode: Some people will do anything to appear smarter than they really are.   In this day and age of audio and video media, it’s very easy to edit out the things you don’t know, cut together the things that you do know, and make the world believe that you’re a genius. Why can’t we stop all the cutting and pasting and filtering and tweaking and just let it all hang out? Jill Salzma...

What’s In This Episode: Do you avoid conflict at all costs?   Soooooo many of us are conflict avoidant. When it comes to running your business, I’d bet that you’re more avoidant than you even realize. We don’t like friction. We want things to go smoothly, and some of us will do anything to skip ahead past the upsets and misunderstandings to pretend that everything is ok 24/7. But when you’re feeli...

What’s In This Episode: Do you ever wonder why you attend networking event after networking event hoping to find clients and it just doesn’t happen? Your network may be huge. You might have a lot of likes and followers. But nothing you do seems to move money out of other people’s pockets into your own. In this episode, guest Antonette Taylor shares her big business blunder to help you understand w...

What’s In This Episode: It’s a big week. A really big week. Jill and her team launch the new FoundingMoms.com ! If you think website relaunches are NBD…if you think tech hurdles ain’t no thang…if you think that interactive websites for mom entrepreneurs frequently appear all over the web…think again. Get thee to a browser and tune in to hear all about it. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspir...

What’s In This Episode: Are YOU still running your business? Or do you hand off tasks to other people, tasks that you shouldn’t be doing? We hear a lot about virtual assistants these days and a growing number of entrepreneurs are hiring them. But what do you hand off? How do you figure out how to WORK with a VA? When’s the right time to hire one? Will they steal your stuff? So many questions. So l...

What’s In This Episode: How do you handle it when someone badmouths you or your business?  We all strive to keep our reputations clean and clear. We who worry about online reviews are even more on alert when it comes to making sure that folks know we’re good people who run great businesses. But what about the people that attack you anyway? Let Jill tell you all about that time she was publicly bla...

What’s In This Episode: When life gives you lemons, what do YOU do with them? Pat Day-McCray learned how to make the sweetest lemonade. She's a successful entrepreneur who went through the hardest of hardships after experiencing the loss of her child. Her big business blunder? Figuring out how to tell the world about it.   This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subs...

What’s In This Episode: Why do we ever explain our pricing to people? We want people to like us. And we certainly don’t want to lose them if the price isn’t right for them. So we negotiate or lower or discount or coupon code it up for them. But it’s a practice that’s doing more harm to your business than good. We’ve gotta stop the madness.   Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and tran...

What’s In This Episode: It’s hard to know when to send out a pitch. What’s the right time? Is there a better day? A better hour? There are countless articles online that tell you how to write the “perfect” pitch. But there is no perfect pitch and there’s no one way to pitch it. No matter, Jill wants to inspire you to keep pitching people anyway. It’s not easy to figure it out because there’s no on...

What’s In This Episode: Do you keep track of all the creativity that flows outta your brain? You likely don’t. You’re creative. Creative folks don’t enjoy creating processes — it's not very creative, is it? But when you don’t, a special kind of chaos shows up in your business and the havoc it wreaks can take quite the toll on any business owner. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and...

What’s In This Episode: Have you ever gotten sucked in to a social media ad and made a purchase that sent you straight to Buyer’s RemorseLand? This one’s a tough story about Jill’s experience buying a piece of crap online. It’ll be hard to get through but she tells her story so that you don’t have to. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable...

What’s In This Episode: The last time you were presented with a partnership opportunity, did you ask the right questions before diving in? When we’re asked to do something promising, it’s rare that we ask the tough questions to make sure that it’s a fit for us. But it’s oh so important. Christine Rose knows it all too well. Her big blunder reveals how even the most experienced entrepreneurs can ge...

What’s In This Episode: Have you ever spoken up about something that sent you to regretsville?   When we make bold statements or stand up for what we believe in during, say, an interview, there’s often a moment of shame or embarrassment that accompanies the giant leap we just took. This episode is about weathering that internal storm so that you can go boldly where no woman has gone before…and sto...

What’s In This Episode: Have you ever tried to hire someone and it went horribly wrong? Bringing someone into your work world is always a rollercoaster ride full of excitement, anxiety, optimism…and a lot of baggage.   This week, Jill talks about how she tried to hire someone recently and…surprise surprise, it didn’t work out. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impo...

What’s In This Episode: Do screens get in the way of spending time with your kids?   There’s a lot of advice out there about when to pick up your phone and when to put it down. Screen time causes a lot of friction in many an entrepreneur’s homes. Can we change the conversation about these guilt-creating gadgets so that we can feel at ease around our children and get more work done?   Jill Salzman...