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- 10 ways to boost your wellbeing at work
If you are a self-employed or a small business owner, it is far too easy to prioritise your work over your wellbeing. Whilst this is fine occasionally, in short bursts, such as meeting an important… Read more: 10 ways to boost your wellbeing at work - The importance of planning when running a business
Whether you’re focusing on your business, team development or a personal project, do not underestimate the importance of planning if you want to achieve your goals. Here are eleven of the best reasons I know… Read more: The importance of planning when running a business - Planning for success? Learn how to write a plan with these 5 tips
Did you know that we are 42% more likely to keep to a plan when we write it down? Amazingly, if we share that plan, our chances of sticking to it increase to 65%. Even… Read more: Planning for success? Learn how to write a plan with these 5 tips - Three simple steps to help you stay focused at work
Whether you’re in the office, onsite at a supplier’s, or working from home, there are days when it can be difficult to stay focused at work. Whether it’s kids or coworkers, pets or an innocent… Read more: Three simple steps to help you stay focused at work - The A-Z of Business Growth
As a business coach and mentor, I cover a LOT of different topics. So, just for fun, here’s an A-Z of business growth. Ready? Let’s go… A. A plan – Fail to plan and you… Read more: The A-Z of Business Growth - What is personality profiling and how can it help your business?
Wouldn’t life be boring if we were all the same? We’d never learn anything new and would end up having the same conversations again and again. Yawn! Thank goodness we are all different. That said,… Read more: What is personality profiling and how can it help your business? - 12 customer retention strategies that really work
One of the most cost-effective ways to grow your business is through your existing clients so it makes sense to focus on customer retention. - How differentiation can provide a competitive advantage
As you’ve decided to read this blog about differentiation, I’m going to guess you work in a highly competitive profession where there are a lot of other businesses offering something similar to you and competitive… Read more: How differentiation can provide a competitive advantage - What makes me different to other online business coaches?
I’m under no illusion, there are an abundance of online business coaches out there and I am just one of them. However, we are all human and have our own personalities, style and way of… Read more: What makes me different to other online business coaches? - 5 simple ways to convert marketing leads into sales in 2023 and improve sales conversion
Establishing marketing ROI can feel a bit like a minefield. Without hard facts, how can a business owner truly say that their marketing spend resulted in clients? - 7 ways to make sales sparkle in your business
Do you have fear of selling? Some people are afraid of appearing pushy. Maybe you’re not completely confident about what you are promoting or the price you are selling it at. You might have had… Read more: 7 ways to make sales sparkle in your business - Does sales give you the spooks?
What better time to talk about the things that scare us than Halloween? I’m terrified by medical procedures, but I know many people are scared stiff at the thought of selling. - 5 simple time management tools you can start using today
How have you and your team found getting into a routine? After taking it easy for a while or experiencing a disruption of some kind, the shift back to work can feel pretty challenging! - Is your comfort zone scaring your sales away?
Have a think… What three things would you really like to achieve but feel are out of reach? If thinking about something in your business is challenging, how about your personal life? Perhaps you want… Read more: Is your comfort zone scaring your sales away? - 5 ways to improve your resilience in the workplace
I am always amazed at how differently people react to uncertainty. What’s especially interesting is how their individual resilience affects their whole demeanour. From my experience it pays to build our personal resilience in and out of work. - 5 big things I learnt in 2021 that you can implement too
Blimey, what a year! This time 12 months ago we all hoped to be waving goodbye to Covid – sadly not! Needless to say, this year has provided businesses up and down the country with opportunities and challenges and we’ve all had to evolve. - How to love selling absolutely anything
If I told you I could help you learn to love selling almost anything, you might think I was exaggerating. Perhaps it seems like a promise too far. - 7 lessons from two years of self-employment
Believe it or not I never planned on becoming self-employed, let alone a sales-focused business coach. This is probably something to do with a seeing my Dad deal with the stress of running his 3 very successful hairdressing salons with around 30 employees. - 5 things every small business owner should do in 2021
It’s hard to believe that we’re at the end of January already. Despite sometimes feeling like the longest month ever, the month has flown since getting back to my desk at the start of January.… Read more: 5 things every small business owner should do in 2021 - Ways to improve your customer services and increase your sales
How can you increase your sales during difficult times? If someone predicted what 2020 would involve with Covid, we’d never have believed them. The years that followed Covid were economically trying – yet another example… Read more: Ways to improve your customer services and increase your sales
