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What is a Signature Service and Why You Need One in 2022

We’ve talked a lot about how to create a signature service here on the blog (like here, here, and also here). Creating a signature service is the best way to eliminate competition, stand out in your niche, and do exactly what you love for exactly who you love to work for. In fact, we help our clients refine their offer into a High-Touch Signature Service™ inside The Incubator. (Psst.. you can learn more and apply here.)

Before we dive into what this could look like for you, let’s get clear on what a signature service actually is!

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The One Tweak We Made With Our Team That Helped Us Scale Our Business

We were recently asked what was one of the biggest mistakes we had made in our business and one of our answers was how we structured our business. In the past our business was running on accomplishing task-based activities, rather than bringing in a team of permanent employees with outcome-based deliverables.

What do we mean by this? When Boss Project first started we had focused on hiring all contractors and less employees. The problem is that contractors are hired on to fulfill tasks. They do not hold the responsibility to fulfill actual outcomes in your business. For example, a social media contractor has the responsibility to create “x” amount of posts for you a month but at the end of the day you’re responsible for the follow-through and the outcomes. It’s still your job to convert social media leads into sales, make sure your sales page is up-to-date, have an opt-in, set up automations and systems etc.

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Group Coaching vs. 1:1 Coaching: Which is Better for Your Business Growth?

As Business Service Providers it’s important to get clear on the education you want for yourself as a business leader. How are you adding value to your business and to your team? There are a lot of options out there so we wanted to give our perspective on group coaching services vs 1:1 coaching services and which is better for your business's growth.

We have heard all the apprehensions when it comes to group coaching programs. Anything from, people are afraid of not getting enough individual attention, or they won’t get their questions answered or they’re afraid they’ll get lost in the noise. If you’ve ever been avoidant of group coaching sessions for those reasons, we’re here to give you a different perspective.

Not only that, but from teaching our own group coaching program (The Incubator) AND investing in other people’s programs, we’ve learned the best ways you can stand out and get the most out of your group coaching experience.

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How and Who to Hire Your First Employee? Here Are Our 6 Tips

So you’ve been freaking crushing it and are now ready to hire your first team member! Congratulations! But pump the brakes babycakes, because there’s a whole slew of decisions that need to be made before you can even decide who to hire.

Let’s dive into the differences between contractors and employees, hiring internationally, who to hire and who to not hire.

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5 Reasons Why You Need to be in a Mastermind Group

Running your service-based business essentially isolated and getting your advice and resources from freebies, Facebook groups, or short courses was great when you were first starting out. Now that you’re trying to scale beyond measures that were even conceivable in the beginning, having other brains to feed off of each other is a value unlike any other growth method.

This is technically called a mastermind group, and many successful entrepreneurs have credited their success to the collective of minds they’ve been a part of. Keep reading to learn 5 reasons why you should seriously consider joining a mastermind group!

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Introducing the Freedom Era: How to Reignite Your High Level Service Based Business Before Burnout Defines You

Do you know how to actually prioritize life-first, work less, enjoy your personal time more, develop hobbies, not be so consumed by work, all the while making good moolah? The answer is probably not, even though literally every business owner ever aims to accomplish all of this.

Instead, we’re met with regurgitated tactics like waking up early to meditate, sell thousands of a low-ticket offer to a nonexistent audience, and “level up” our mindset. It’s no surprise that those tactics don’t cut it for us.

So, after trial and error, hunkered down in isolation, we realized we’d unlocked something that thousands of other service-based business owners and consultants have been searching for. Now, we’re bringing in a new era of business, and we want you to be a part of it.
Welcome to The Freedom Era: Reignite Your Business Before Burnout Defines You. We’re hosting this 1-day event on March 29, 2022, and you’re invited to grab your ticket right now for just $47.

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How to Become the Creative Director of Your Small Business

So often when starting a creative service-based business, you start to feel disconnected with the reason you even started your business in the first place. Even when you’re absolutely crushing it in your business, landing clients left and right, and are super busy, that often comes with more things outside of client deliverables.

Taking on the CEO role means you have to deal with more things that may feel out of alignment with the thing you really love doing. What we’ve learned from being in that position is that feeling that connection to what you’re creating is the most important thing for a service provider to protect.

In this blog post, we’ll be sharing how to become the creative director of your small business, so you can still deliver on your services while building a high caliber business!

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How to Create Financial Freedom in Your Service Based Business

Everyone’s goal is financial freedom. We know that’s what you want! We understand you want to do things like bring your partner home to help you run your business, maybe even retire them early, be fully present for your kids, take more vacations, etc.

These are the things that make life that much better, and financial freedom is ultimately how you’re going to get there. But first, there’s a very important mindset shift you need to make, and that’s what we’re going to talk about in today’s blog post.

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How to Create a High-Touch Signature Service

We recently told the complete truth about the elusive “passive income” trend and how it’s a total sham. We also told you what you should do instead, and that’s create a High-Touch Signature Service.™


In a nutshell, a High-Touch Signature Service is what will allow you to go from working with 12 clients per month (and barely breaking even) to 4 clients per month (and making much more than before). It’s what will save your sanity, capacity, time, and pockets in the long run because you’re able to work less while making more!

In this post, we’re going to break down the 4 key phases to creating a High-Touch Signature Service, so you can be well on your way to putting your life first in your business while surpassing your financial goals.

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