Maria Marsala, founder of Elevating Your Business, and Business Strategist draws on her Wall Street trading experience and 30-plus years of business success to help business owners nationwide. Her specialty is helping business owners build bigger, better businesses, quicker, by streamlining the parts of business they choose to ignore—planning, administration, operations.
Maria’s written more than 200 business and Internet articles and has appeared on TV & radio shows on both coasts. Her most recent venture is the CD series "Corporate Secrets for Small Business Success", a self-coaching system in a box. Visit us at http://www.ElevatingYourBusiness.com and http://www.BusinessAndMarketingPlan.com
all things to all people. Here are 10 "rights" you have as a small business owner that can help you achieve the success you desire.
2. You have the right to raise your prices at any time.
3. You have the right to say No to those who “only want to pick your brain.”
4. You have the right to set boundaries that are in line with your integrity!
5. You have the right to terminate conversations with others because you don’t feel that your experience is being respected.
6. You have a right to charge clients a late fee for not paying you promptly.
7. You have the right not only to charge more for rush jobs or jobs requested over the weekend —you have the right to say No to doing them.
8. You have the right to make mistakes, missteps, learn, and do better next time.
9. You have the right to have fun and enjoy your business.
10. You have the right to say No to someone in order to say YES to you!