What are the non-negotiables in your business?

What are the non-negotiables in your business?

My client asked me this week, and it developed into an interesting discussion, so I thought I’d share it with you.

She wanted to know what were my daily, weekly and monthly activities that grew my business and what my non-negotiables were.

6 ways to build a business you love

6 ways to build a business you love

Building a business is one of the most rewarding things you can do, but it has the ability to get out of control and take over your life. In this article I’ve tried to lay out 6 things for you to focus on and have in mind as you build your business, so that you build a business you love.

How to create your Personal Brand

How to create your Personal Brand

If you run a business, you have a personal brand. More than ever people want to know the face behind the brand. We want to know what what they stand for and the kind of person they are.

And where branding (in the simplest form a hot iron on a sheep backside) has been around for centuries, the rise of the personal brand has exploded due to social media and the rising numbers of solo entrepreneurs.

Why multi-tasking is bad for your brain - what to do instead

Why multi-tasking is bad for your brain - what to do instead

Have you ever got to the end of the day and wondered what you’ve achieved? Have you ever found yourself staring at your screen with tons to tabs open on your web browser? Have you ever been halfway through a task and found yourself with your phone in your hand looking up something completely unrelated?

How to keep smiling in challenging times

How to keep smiling in challenging times

Boy oh boy have we been having some challenging times around the world this 2020. Forest Fires, protests, landslides, explosions oh and a little thing called a pandemic.

It can be hard to keep smiling in the face of such adversity. To keep focusing on the good stuff, when the news is full of panic and there are people dying across the world from Corona.

So how can we keep our peckers up and keep putting one foot in front of the other?

My Top 3 Tips for Managing Facebook or Instagram Ads

My Top 3 Tips for Managing Facebook or Instagram Ads

My first tip as to how to make the most of Facebook ads and Instagram ads is to get the Pixel code on your website. The Pixel code is a free piece of code from Facebook that measures and captures the data of people who go on your website, so that you can market to people who you know are already interested in you.

How to use the power of stories in your business

How to use the power of stories in your business

We’re hard-wired for stories. We spend our childhood hearing them, the newspapers and magazines we read are full of them. We connect with them, we’re nosey and love getting ‘under the bonnet’.

So I hope I’ve convinced you that is you start telling stories in your business you’re onto a winner.

What are you going to do with the next decade of your life?

What are you going to do with the next decade of your life?

Sometimes we put the breaks on what we could achieve. We poo, poo our ideas. We feel like they belong to someone else. We feel bad about charging for our services. We feel ungrateful for wanting more. The idea of being rich feels dirty.

What would you do if you could do anything? What would you do if no-one was watching? What would you do if anything was possible?