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Seven Things to Do Once You've Made The Decision To Work With A Business Coach

If you’re looking to grow your small business, it’s time to hire a business coach. This is the second of three guides to help you discover if business coaching is right for you. At first, the idea of working with someone else might sound strange, but it’s something you should seriously consider as hiring a … Continue reading Seven Things to Do Once You've Made The Decision To Work With A Business Coach

7 Reasons To Consider Getting Business Coaching

Considering getting business coaching? This is the first of THREE guides to help you discover if business coaching is right for you. Business coaching is a powerful way to take your small business or freelance project to the next level, but it’s not right for everyone. Here are seven reasons why hiring a business coach … Continue reading 7 Reasons To Consider Getting Business Coaching

3 Reasons Why Marketing a Small Business is Hard

If you are the owner of a small business, marketing it can be difficult, especially if you are an expert in what you do but are inexperienced in this area. Here are three reasons why marketing a small business can be hard. 1 You’ve too much information No matter what business you’re in, there’s an … Continue reading 3 Reasons Why Marketing a Small Business is Hard

Keep Your Light Shining…

In spite of being in a time of crisis, now is not the time to hide. Here's my take on the reasons why and the lessons learnt from two years ago… Flashback…On March 31, 2020, I posted this article in Linked In: YES you MAY still market your business - in fact, you MUST. A … Continue reading Keep Your Light Shining…

Finding Balance in Your Life – The Four Pillars For Success

This morning, I wrote to a prompt for my Morning Pages (See Julia Cameron the Artists Way on the first shelf on my Book Shelf here). The prompt was to think of myself as water. Within very broad, and gentle, writing guides (provided by the marvellous Gayle Johnson's Wordspill Writers Group) I came up with … Continue reading Finding Balance in Your Life – The Four Pillars For Success

Faff Free Friday – the Letting Go Issue

Late last Friday night I started watching the film Mum’s List. (On Amazon Prime. True story, written by the dad, sad but lovely.) I don't mind sharing this, I sobbed the whole way through. And thought I wouldn’t stop. It was like a dam being hit by a bomb and a long, powerful cascade letting go, … Continue reading Faff Free Friday – the Letting Go Issue

Stepping Up in your Business in 2022… to Light up Your Audience, Your Clients and the World…

You know how sometimes, you have a thing materialise in your head, something that feels like it's been there forever? Comfortable and familiar...like a pair of M&S knickers. A sort of déjà vu... (Or is it just me?!) I reckon not! And, I have a real example. JK Rowling had this with Harry Potter, the … Continue reading Stepping Up in your Business in 2022… to Light up Your Audience, Your Clients and the World…

How to Use Simple Minimum Viable Opportunities in your Business Life

I’d every intention of talking meaningfully about epiphanies given it was the Feast of the Epiphany in the Christian calendar yesterday. Ostensibly the date three kings (or as no numbers are actually mentioned in the Bible, perhaps numerous wise men/women) came to give gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to newborn baby Jesus and the … Continue reading How to Use Simple Minimum Viable Opportunities in your Business Life

Happy New year 2022 (and why NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS and the negative marketing around them are making me SICK!!)

It is the turn of the year - here why NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS and the negative marketing around them are making me SICK!! And what has that to do with Just William!