The Career RelaunchBlog

Starting your own business involves an incredibly steep learning curve with inevitable mistakes and big lessons learned along the way. Here are four things I wished I’d known earlier about what it takes to successfully run your own business.

Being visible is critical to building a strong personal brand for yourself. Here are 4 simple ways to raise your professional visibility, build your credibility, and open up more career opportunities for yourself.

Self-employment involves more than just building a business a useful service or product from scratch. It involves maintaining a positive, productive mindset so you can keep growing your business when the going gets tough. Here are two ways I’ve stayed on track during my own self-employment journey.

When I used to work in the corporate world as a brand marketer, I operated in a resource-rich environment with access to big budgets and plenty of experts to get things done. When it came to creating marketing campaigns, we had the luxury of bringing on external agencies eager to work with big brands. When it came to hiring people, […]

Running your own business can be full of challenges that keep you up at night. Here are a few of the emotions I’ve had to wrestle with and overcome in order to get a good night’s sleep and stay on track with my goals as a solopreneur.

When I left the corporate world 5 years ago to start my own career consultancy, I knew that starting a small business had a very high failure rate. So when I branched off to work for myself, I invested quite a bit of time soliciting advice on the best strategies to make sure I would […]