5 Top Tips For Turning Green

Sometimes, a chance meeting at a networking event gives you an introduction that really is pure gold ...

Networking Skills: How To Deal With The Nervous Rambler

You know the type. Someone who doesn’t stop to draw breath let alone allows you to get a word in edgewise ...

Networking Tips: Come Out Of Your Comfort Zone

He is taken to a safe centre, fed, watered and his keeper Joe gives him a pat on the trunk daily and a ball to play with ...

Why Some Network Groups Flounder

If you’re running your own small business, sooner or later you will need to go out networking ...

Collaboration: Working With The Enemy

I was watching Drew Pritchard of Salvage Hunters on television the other evening and got thinking about collaboration ...

Can You Spot the Givers?

According to Adam Grant's book 'Give and Take', the most successful people in business are high givers. And so are the least successful ...

Starting Your Consultancy: Where Are Your Clients Based?

When I ask that question to prospective clients or fellow networkers, I often get the answer of anywhere ...

Networking Snobbery: Other Networkers Are Too Small To Refer Me

Networking snobbery is a bad thing for any networker to have. I wonder why people join a group if they think no-one can help them ...

Networking: How To Decide Whether To Trust Someone

So you’re going out networking to generate business. You know better than to be in selling mode ...

Don't Change Just Because Everyone Else Is

Blogs, email sales messages from gurus and so called experts, even TED talks are all entreating you to try something new ...

Grow Your Consultancy Using The Hub Firm Method

Many consultants left employment and set up on their own to escape the trappings of working in a large organisation ...

Referral Marketing: Taking The Surprise Out Of Your Referrals

When I'm promoting referral marketing, I stress the need to have deep relationships with people in order to get success ...

Should I Set Up As A Consultant?

A personal recollection talking to my husband over breakfast about when we first met and he'd been made redundant ...

Inviting People To Your Mastermind Community

The appeal of a mastermind community is the rare opportunity it gives many business leaders to collaborate ...

Look After Your Network

All of us running our own business have our backs squarely against the wall. We need to look after our network ...

Business Learnings From The COVID-19 Pandemic

Such a lot to learn from this pandemic; enough to keep the social scientists in PhD material for the foreseeable future ...

Consultancy Start-Ups: Building Your Network

Ideally, you will have been planning this for quite a while, and you have your first client already teed-up ...

Does Equality Matter In Business?

There comes a time with many small businesses when you can't do it all yourself and need to recruit a team ...