I was at a small business trade show recently interviewing for some podcasts focused on highlighting small businesses and one of the people I interviewed was an artist trying to be in business for herself.

I asked her what she had learned in her first year of being in business and she replied, "The one thing I have learned is to really focus on my spending and watching my cash flow." Boy was that an insightful comment coming from someone with no business background at all.

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