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Prevent Brain Drain – Get A Partner!

February 20, 2015 by sophiezo Leave a Comment


When you’re working hard to create new, valuable offerings for your clients, it can be hard to come up with exciting materials all by yourself. If you’re operating in a silo, your ideas might start to get repetitive and unoriginal. One of the best ways to keep your creative juices flowing, your energy up and your ideas popping out one after another is to get another person to help.

Brainstorming Buddy

Two minds percolating on the same topic can play off one another, expanding and redirecting each other’s ideas. Ideally, you’ll get into a free flow of ideas that can generate dozens more ideas than you would alone.

Sounding Board

Another person can act as a sounding board for your newest bright idea, helping you decide if it’s viable, crazy, or so crazy it just might work. They can ask questions, pose likely scenarios, try to poke holes in your idea, and help you think of ways to improve it.

Make it Fun

Having a partner to volley ideas back and forth with can make you feel happier and more engaged with the process. Working with another person who is an enthusiastic supporter makes the brainstorming fun and stress-free.

Plan B

With a partner, the stakes are lower and it’s easier to see where even a great idea might go wrong. A brainstorming partner can help formulate a backup plan for how you can handle it if the idea you really love doesn’t live up to your vision of it.

When selecting a brainstorming partner, it’s helpful to choose someone who is familiar with your business and who can see the bigger picture of how your business exists and functions within its industry.

If you already have a business partner, that is great. But be wary of asking a spouse or partner to fill in this role. People who love you tend to be supportive of your ideas even if they aren’t that great. Objectivity is essential to your success, too.

Need help? Let me know! I’ve got tons of ideas and I’d love to help you out. Contact me today and we’ll get going on a brilliant mind meld that lifts your business to the next level.

Filed Under: Delegating, Motivation, Outsourcing, Time Management, Virtual Assistant, Virtual Services, writing

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We’ve been working with Sophie Zollmann for almost half a year now, building an online lifelong learning platform and community from the ground up (because in-person classes became impossible in light of the corona virus). Sophie has guided every technical aspect of this enterprise including the construction of landing-pages and websites, the management of mailing lists and revenue funnels, setting up Zoom meetings, etc., allowing us to focus exclusively on content production and marketing. This platform is now off the ground and succeeding beyond our wildest hopes.

We couldn’t have built it without Sophie’s support, which has always been prompt and timely, and her guidance, as she’s always pointed us to the most efficient and economical solutions to whatever technical issue we’ve faced. In the heat of the moment, I’m sure we’ve not always been easy to work with, but Sophie has also been generous and understanding to a fault. In sum, her support has been flawless and absolutely essential to the success of our online enterprise. We will be relying on her services again as we ramp up for our next phase of growth.

David Peritz
Founding Director
Minerva Academy of Lifelong Learning


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