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 ...

How Not To Go Broke When You're Busy

Last week, I discover two successful small businesses I know are in financial trouble because they stopped marketing ...

Do You Walk The Talk?

The term 'walk the talk' has come up as a major topic for me in conversation this last week in several different ways ...

Are You Ready To Join A Mastermind Community?

A Mastermind community is a group of entrepreneurial people who dedicate time to working together ...

Choosing Your Network Events

Times of uncertainty always gets people reviewing what they are doing and what gives them value for money ...

Mastermind Skills: Put Some Emotion Into Your Decision Making

The value of a Mastermind group is in the power of the group to generate ideas and help members make decisions ...

Why Write Your Vision For Your Business In The Present Tense?

Like many a coach before me, I ask you to write your vision for your business in the present tense, as if you've already achieved it ...

Learning With My Clients

I had a lovely email when I first published this blog post from one of my clients, new to running his own business ...

We Live In Interesting Times

I reply with, ''We live in interesting times'' when responding to enquiries about how I'm coping with lockdown ...

Back To Basics: Make It Easier For People To Refer You

We’re in a countrywide lockdown and some companies are not going to make it. That could be someone you know ...

Collaboration In Adversity

We’re all in for tough times over the next few months so how do we implement collaboration in adversity?

Two Great Tips To Market Yourself As A Consultant

John had a successful career, reaching financial director of a mid-sized company and was then made redundant ...