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How our fears can be our greatest strengths
After a quite incredible weekend at the One Woman Conference, I've been reflecting on our individual impact to make a difference. When you are alone in your office, it's easy to feel that the journey is too steep or too rocky or that your goal isn't clear and shrouded...
read moreHow to stop to-do lists and post-it notes from ruining your business
To-do lists don’t work. You may think they do. But they don’t. You may prefer to use post-it note reminders; cover your desk and screen with those pesky yellow tabs that always seem to fall off at precisely 74 minutes after you’ve stuck them. But these don’t work...
read moreMarketing live events in this digital age?
I’ve gone back to marketing live in-person events again. After a three year run of being totally digital, I’ve realised how much I missed running them and how important they are to a business like mine; a business that needs me to show up and be visible. Perhaps...
read moreBe More Tortoise
Before you plough into next thing on your to-do-list, stop. Take a breath. May is a month that seems to go by crazy fast; running off the back of the Easter holiday weekend and giving us two further 4 day weeks. Add this to our already spinning-faster digital...
read moreResilience and the game of business
S@&* happens, yes? Just as you feel you are in flow and that you're finally two steps forward, you get an email cancelling a contract or a client tells you they don't want to go ahead with the programme you've just confirmed with them. Perhaps a marketing campaign...
read moreProduct Launches: How big does your list need to be?
When you have a product launch, what size list should you have? Do you need a big list to launch your product? I love this question. If you watch any of the latest gurus sells their internet marketing courses and "Secrets to 6 figure business" programmes, it becomes...
read moreHow to get off the marketing treadmill and play a bigger game
How long do you keep on pushing? This was the question I asked myself a few years ago. It was the start of 2014 and I realised I couldn’t keep going the way I had been. From the outside, I had a successful coaching business. I had a steady flow of 1-2-1 clients, had...
read moreWhat do you do when you’ve had a crap day?
If you work from home, it's easy not see any one for several days. Especially if you work with clients by email or phone. There is no coffee room talk or quick catch-ups by the photocopying machine that you used to have in PAYE world. And sometimes it can feel just...
read moreAsking for referrals: it’s in the way that you ask for them
You all know that asking for business referrals is good thing, don’t you? But how to go about asking for them can be an entirely different kettle of fish. One of the most simplest, yet most effective, ways of increasing the number of referrals from existing clients...
read moreHow to stop faffing and turn your BIG plans in to results
It’s the little daily stuff that makes it all happen! Thinking big is good! You’ve got to have a plan. But starting the week paper shuffling, email faffing and hiding in Twitter is not going to crack it. And a big problem many of you seem to have (me too!) is being...
read more3 ways that your business screws with your mind
Having been in control of my own career and income for the past 13 years, there’s one thing that I am absolutely sure of. Being your own boss is an exhilarating and fun roller coaster ride and yet, at times, one of the most emotionally sucking jobs that you can ever...
read moreCompletion not perfection
It can be expected that everything you do in your business, you want done right. To have the correct grammar and spelling. To have the right message and images in your marketing material. To hav your logo in the right corner of your invoice. After all, you have...
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