Is The Thought of Sales And Marketing Making You Procrastinate? How to focus on a new customer saying yes rather than no So many entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs, when they think about marketing or selling, they imagine the potential customer saying no.  They...

Annie is the author of The Freelance Mum: A flexible career guide for better work–life balance, editor of The Early Hour and freelance journalist for national news and women’s magazines (Guardian, Forbes, Grazia, Red Magazine, Stylist, Metro, Telegraph). Annie also...

Last week, a woman wanting to start her own business asked in a Facebook Group "What’s the one thing that has made your business successful?"   The problem with this question is that there is never just one thing. And despite what people say in Facebook adverts, there...

For many of my clients, they haven’t had coaching before, or if they have, it was paid for by their company rather than being an investment of their own money. If you are curious about coaching and why someone would invest in it, I hope this article can help you. ...

Despite other people's perceptions of me, I still don't feel I could own the label 'confident'. What I do though is take action every day on things that are just a little bit scary - and that is confidence. I took courageous action when I stepped out of my sisters car...

  Welcome to the third interview in the “Why I Love My Work” series! It is my great pleasure to welcome Kim Morgan to the blog today. She is CEO and Founder of the coach training company, Barefoot Coaching.  One of my first coaches was a Barefoot trained coach. Me...

    I first met Ruth Gilbey in person in a cupboard. Strange but true.    When the cupboard incident happened, Ruth and I had been studying social media marketing together and had known each other online for about a year. I had been so happy to hear we...

January has been one of the best months of my working life. And I don’t say that lightly.  Although I have only been back officially for 7 working days, I have had video calls with 12 new coaching clients and I am in the middle of delivering a training course in...

Welcome to the second interview in the "Why I Love My Work" series! It is my great pleasure to welcome Alison Jones today. Amongst the many things she does, Alison publishes fantastic books like Hype Yourself by Lucy Werner and The Invisible Revolution by Nicola...

It’s Sunday so it’s time for the weekly review. If you haven’t seen one of these posts before, it’s where I share some behind the scenes information about my last week of blogging.  It’s been lovely to see so many visitors to the site and growing everyday. I’ve...

Approach your LinkedIn profile with a sense of calm and ease. The great news is that it can be a work in progress and be updated and changed at any time. You are highly unlikely to write anything on there which will permanently damage your professional reputation.  If...

Welcome! Why have one new interview series when you can have two (or three!). Along with the "How I Attract Clients" interview series, this one is "Why I Love My Work".   Interestingly, they are intimately connected. When you love your work and show people you...

If you set a goal or an intention to attract new clients this year, I highly recommend you use LinkedIn.   Why do I recommend LinkedIn?   I can imagine you want a bit more than, it works!   There are many things I don’t like about LinkedIn and I’m sure...

Welcome to the first interview in this new series - "How I Attract Clients" The series will feature interviews with freelancers and business owners sharing how they go about attracting clients.    Why have I chosen this as a topic?   When I started thinking...

Happy New Year!    I know it is the 7th of January which might be a bit late to be saying Happy New Year but I have taken my first extended Christmas break for many years.    It has been heavenly to have the confidence and to be in a financial position to be...

As the end of the year approaches, I have been looking back at the 2010s. It has been so inspiring and motivating to think about how much has happened. Turns out a decade is a long time and you can achieve so much in 10 years!  One thing that really stood out was how...

Even if you don’t think of yourself as a naturally stylish person (which I don’t too). It’s likely you have a set of preferences about how you like to communicate online. That’s what I’m calling your natural style. I’ve been using online platforms for my work and...

We are approaching the end of 2019 and I have some simple questions for you to consider.  Does your work make you feel truly alive?  You know that feeling. The one where you feel inspired, completely aligned, you know what you’re doing and you’re having an...

I've always loved reading.  I was one of those geeky kids with bottle top glasses and my nose in a book. Now, many years on, not much has changed. I still love books. I always have a least one, sometimes more, on the go at any one time.  Raising a family and working...

I wonder if you are anything like me. Do you have too many ideas, projects, opportunities and just not enough time?  And worse than that, finding more than 10 minutes to dedicate to a task is almost impossible? And when I say not enough time, I mean, really not enough...

I must confess. I love training courses. Almost as much as a love designing and delivering training. Hence the overexcitement about the flip chart pens during one of my previous training courses.  I love training courses so much that the Guardian Careers Section wrote...

If I was granted 3 wishes, I might use one of them to eradicate 'Imposter Syndrome'  You know that feeling we are all so familiar with. The internal dialogue that tells you your successes have all been a fluke, you are a con and one day you will be FOUND OUT and...