It’s REALLY tricky for small and micro businesses right now. Falling sales and cancellations are leaving business owners scared and anxious, worried this will break their little business. So what...
Plan.
Planning is super important in your business because without a plan, how do you know where you’re going? And how do you know whether it’s working or not?
In this section we’ll look at business visions, goals, targets, business planning, marketing planning, social media planning and time planning, plus anything else I think will help.
School Holiday Marketing Plan For Busy Business Mums
How to keep your business going (and growing) during the school holidays I’m guessing you’re here because you have school holidays coming up and the thought of them is making your brain pop? It’s...
How To Find Your Missing Mojo After A Break
You know when you’ve got a holiday coming up and you work like CRAZY to get everything prepared for it? You use every available hour and minute to hit those pre-holiday deadlines and then finally,...
8 Easy Ways To Get Laser Focus Right When You Need It
People say 'FOCUS' is the magic ingredient in any successful business and they're not wrong, but they make it sound like it's EASY! And it isn't! Being able to focus when you feel like you barely...
3 Things To Do When You’re Feeling Stuck
Why does that happen? One day we're full of enthusiasm, bursting with energy and raring to go. We feel like we can take on the world! The next day we wake up and feel, well, STUCK! Like we've lost the plot. We feel blank, panicky and scared. We feel overwhelmed and...
Time To Fix Your Broken Business?
Do you feel like you have a broken business?As if part of it just aren't working? If so, you're definitely not alone. Building a business is tricky. Not only do you have to actually DO or MAKE the thing you get paid for, there's a whole bunch of other stuff you need...
6 Rules of Awesome Business Visions
If you've read my Business Secret Weapon and 5 Questions To Help You Create A Cracking Business Vision blogs, you'll know I REALLY recommend having a vision for your business. A business vision is a quick and easy way to get you focused, give you direction and stop...
5 Questions To Help You Create A Cracking Business Vision
As you'll know if you read my Business Secret Weapon Blog, having a business vision is a GREAT businesss decision. It gives you focus and clarity, it helps with decision making and it stops you getting sidetracked and distracted when life takes over. Hopefully you're...
Your Business Secret Weapon
If you thought I'm going to share a snazzy tool or swish new piece of software, you'd be wrong. If you were hoping for a ninja-esque approach to marketing, you might be disappointed. BUT what I've got is much better than any single tool, tip or bit of software. My...
How To Make Time For Marketing
Hands up if you have more than enough time for marketing! If you do, then you're one of the fortunate ones because most small business owners I speak to seem to be desperately trying to find time but failing. In fact, time– or rather, a lack of it - seems to be the...
How NOT To Deal With Overwhelm
I got an email from one of my clients which basically said “Waaaaaaaaah I’ve got so much to do and I just want to hide under a rock until it goes away”. She has 3 small children, she’s not been well and her hubby has had a sick bug too. Her clients were baying for...