Help! What's my next move?

Attracting enough clients to your business can be tough, especially if you are a business owner or entrepreneur trying to sell your time for money.

Knowing which business model is best, what products to create, what prices to charge and how you go about finding enough clients to give you the financial freedom you want can be an overwhelming.

And it doesn’t help being sucked in by all the hundreds of free marketing tools and over-hyped advice on how to create that magical 6-figure business. Some is good – but how do you know what’s right for your clients and your business? It can feel like an uphill struggle, can’t it?

You just don’t know how!

Hi, my name is Karen Skidmore. In 2004 I left an eleven year corporate career to start up my own coaching business. I wanted to create a term-time career to fit around my family life and running my own business seemed to be the ideal solution.

But it was hard work. Far harder than I imagined it would be. Those first six months were a roller-coaster ride of success and failure. My confidence levels crashed. And I was making very little in the way of income.

I still remember that dark day that I wanted to give it all up and go back to a PAYE job. But I didn’t. I decided I had to turn all my previous knowledge of business and marketing learnt in corporate life on its head and invested my time, money and energy in discovering the right ways to design my business.

And, more importantly, the right ways to design my business so that I could enjoy a constant and consistent flow of income whilst being able to create more time to do what I want.

Over the years I have experienced a real roller-coaster of crap months and big success. It’s been a real adventure! But I’m a rather determined person and today I enjoy a flexible and profitable business.

I’m a sought after speaker, published my first book in 2012, run a hugely successful marketing club and love being known as the go-to “tech geek” for help in using marketing tools such as Twitter, Facebook, blogs and email newsletters. And I still balance my time as a mum to two school-age children, whose sports matches I rarely miss, as well as creating time to do “me-stuff” such as tennis, art classes and those all-important girlie lunches and coffee mornings.

I love that I can help other business owners and entrepreneurs like you create the right business model, set up profitable marketing systems and offer the right products so that you can work with more clients, whilst working less hours.

You see, unlike many business mentors and marketing gurus out there, I’ve got the T-Shirt (well, if truth be told … a whole wardrobe of them!) and I know what it takes to get your business turned around and moving in the right direction.

What we end up working on together is entirely up to you and your present circumstances. That’s the great thing about a personalised 1-2-1 programme – there’s no fixed agenda to squeeze you in to! You will see below there are options to choose from, but you are an individual and your goals and aspirations are unique to you. Although I have much to share with you, not all of it may be relevant to the path you end up taking and you need clarity and focus on where to make the biggest difference in your business right now, don’t you?

• You may be just starting out and need to focus on some “quick-wins” to build both your cash flow and your business confidence.
• You may have been in business for a few years and feel frustrated by your lack of consistent and constant clients.

Whatever stage of business you are at, we can work out what needs working on first and help you achieve a clear action plan to get working on.

“I used Karen Skidmore to help me create a successful and profitable web business, with as many tasks as possible automated.  Her skill in breaking down what seems to be a rather daunting task into extremely manageable bite size chunks. As a result you finish the session confident that it’s all very manageable. She has helped me formulate my long term goal and then get a monthly plan to move forwards towards achieving it. ”

Mary Waring

“I started working with Karen because although all the bits of my business were working they weren’t really integrated with each other. After only a single session I achieved my first two goals – to start running teleseminars and to get bookings for an upcoming course. With Karen’s support and advice I set up and ran my first ever teleseminar and as a direct result got bookings on an upcoming course. I am absolutely delighted with the result and how easy it was with Karen’s help. With Karen I know my chances are significantly higher.”

Lisa Turn, Pyscademy

You have three options. Which one you choose depends on how much support you want.

Best for Entrepreneurs who ready to take real action and make a massive difference to their business results

This programme is ideal if you are fed up with treading water. You know you are going to be successful. You know what you want to do will work and there are people out there who will love what it is you offer. But you just can’t see the wood for the trees.

Your profits are not where they should be. Yes, your business is turning over a few thousand pounds a month, perhaps even more … but where is the income for you. How come you don’t seem to have anything left at the end of each month for you to feel good about all your hard work.

But the one defining characteristic of someone who is ready to undertake the challenge of this Accelerate Programme is that you are ready to take real action. You just want someone to help shake up your ideas, show you how to create a business model that allows you to attract consistent and constant clients throughout the year and push you to make the income that you know you deserve.

And once you have that, you absolutely know you are going to make it work!

This is a four month programme and this is what you will get:

Total Value of Accelerate Programme: £2105

Your investment: £1495 or 4 easier monthly payments of £374

Best for Business Owners who want to get clear on where they are heading … fast!

If you are stuck in the Ideas Trap, then you will know difficult it is to focus your efforts on taking action and getting any results. The great thing about Google is that it will give you answers to every problem you have … but that’s the problem. Which answer is going to be right for you and your business?

You just need to sit down with someone who can cut through all the crap and help you get clarity on where you need to go.

If you feel the Accelerate Programme is a little too scary or you frankly don’t have the budget for it (yet!) then start off with half day with me.

This is what you will get:

Best for Business Owners who simply want a practical, no-nonsense session with me on the phone or skype

Yup, you are either not ready for an intensive make-over on your business or you simply just want to pick my brains so you fast track your new product launch or latest marketing initiative.

I get that. Not everyone needs or wants a strategy in their life right now ;o) So if you just want a one-off session (or you want to check me out before you decide to commit to do the whole way me with!), then this Power Hour is perfect for you.

This one off  session will give you:

Total Value of Power Hour: £335

Your investment: Just £145

“She really knows what she is talking about, evidenced by the way she can demonstrate quick fixes and workarounds at the drop of a hat.”

Joyce Campbell, Charis NLP

“She clearly understands where the gaps are in your knowledge, and identifies where there may be problems before they occur. Not only that, but she can identify problems with your web presence that you probably didn’t realise existed in the first place and will help you resolve them with her clear and concise problem solving techniques. ”

Matt Pereira, Photographer

There's no magic pill!

Your first step is to simply put request a time for us to speak. Yup, we need to arrange a time to speak and discuss your options via the phone or skype.

It’s really important that we do this as this will help both of us decide whether we are right for each other. If you prefer to speak to someone before completing the form below, please call my right-hand woman Alexia Padgham on 01428 607745. Alexia has been my PA for more than four years and she can answer most questions you may have.

Add your name and email right here …

Please note … These Mentoring Programmes are not available to begin during the months of July, August and December. I practice what I preach and only work during the school term time to fit around my children’s holidays. I like it like that and, if this is something that you would like to have, I can most definitely teach you how, too.