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In the ‘Build a Business without Social Media’ Masterclass, I discuss 10 alternatives to using social media to get clients and grow your business. I always maintain that one of the most effective ways to get new clients from a standing start is to network face-to-face, either online or offline. (I actually prefer to call this “talking to people” –…
One of the questions that comes up time and time again from new people who join my membership is: “I would love to get more clients – but how can I if I haven’t got a niche?” I always feel frustrated when I hear this – mainly because I’ve seen over and over again just how much the belief that…
Have you ever been working on a really important project and found yourself getting stuck and just not making the sort of progress you want to? This was me a few years ago – I had something relatively straightforward to do, but ended up spending a WHOLE day on it – and at the end of that day, I still…
It was October 2010. I’d recently qualified as an NLP Practitioner, hypnotherapist and coach (I already had a Postgrad Diploma in Nutritional Therapy and my Yoga Teacher Training certification under my belt). Always one to do things “properly”, I’d registered my business as a sole trader and set up a business bank account – after all I needed somewhere to…
I want to talk about something that’s been troubling me for a little while now. It’s the idea that you have to be visible if you want your business to work. Could it actually be possible that the idea you have to be visible if you want your business to work could actually be hurting your business? Of course, it’s not…
In this video, that I recorded a number of years ago, I talk about some of the key milestones I passed during my first two years in business – some are relevant to anyone starting a business, others are specific to the fact that mine became focused on group programmes. As I looked at those milestones I couldn’t help notice…
There’s something that I talk about a lot with my mentoring clients – it’s the eternal challenge of balancing this “Triad” of business essentials: – The need to bring in immediate income – Building towards a more “hustle-free” future – Delivering on promises to existing clients For example a client will come on a mentoring call and say something like:…
Are you overwhelmed by the many ways to market your business? This week’s video was inspired by an email I received from a private mentoring client. We’d started our work together with a whole day planning out a strategy for her business. There was a plan, she knew what she needed to do, and off she went to implement it.…
Today I want to talk to you about something a client of mine did recently, because it makes me think that maybe you are not doing enough of this yourself? What my client did was fail spectacularly at something. This was something that I advised her to do. We’d only recently started working together and one of the first things…
I have been running my mostly online business Selling from the Heart for over 14 years now. Now, that’s not bad going for an introvert is it? Also, I’m no ordinary introvert, I’m an extreme introvert. In fact I’m the most introverted person I know! You could leave me alone with no human company for literally weeks and I wouldn’t…
“Heart-Centred” is a phrase that I use a lot when talking about my approach to business. I first heard it at a time when I was struggling to define who I was in business and who I was here to serve. When I came across it I instantly felt: “That’s it! That’s me… and those are my clients!”. That little…
Many years ago when I first got into to the world of personal development I trained with a mentor who used to say: “Successful people don’t stop having problems. They just have better quality problems” What he meant was that life and business are never going to be easy and smooth and we are always going to have problems. But…