When you start a new business, chances are you’ll be bombarded with something unpleasant… Unsolicited advice. Friends and family – well-meaning the lot of them – like to make suggestions. Ways you could find new customers, products you could develop, or even how you should be marketing your business. The best entrepreneurs have a fine-tuned […]
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Let’s begin with some good news: I’d wager you already have some pretty effective business goals. When you first set up your company, there was almost certainly a moment when you said to yourself “I’d like to establish a business that does X”. And that, in itself, was you becoming an entrepreneur, and establishing your
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As a business owner, it’s likely you spend most of your time juggling more things than you can realistically handle. From marketing, to product development, to delivering your products or services, to invoicing. So tell me, do you have a business system for each of those things? And if so, is it written down somewhere
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If being an entrepreneur coach is all about helping people make the changes they’d like to make in their business, then there’s one question that I’m asked more than any. “How?” Most business owners – in fact, most people – already know what changes they’d like to make if they could. Whether it’s “I’d like
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“What’s the plan, boss?” It’s a tough question. And it usually comes from your most hard-nosed, intelligent employee. Which makes it all the more difficult. But when you run a business on your own – either as a sole trader or as the sole senior leader – it’s easy to avoid the question altogether. After
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Running a small business takes a special kind of person. Someone with the resilience and grit to keep going, often against odds that tower over their head. Someone with a special skill or vision, and the motivation to share it with the world. And someone who can juggle 27 plates at the same time –
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In life, many of us spend our precious years in search of our soulmate. That other half of us whom we feel intrinsically linked to and want by our sides through thick and thin. We look for our soulmate to build a life with, perhaps get married to and start a family. But that’s your
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The modern-day workplace thrives on what we know as company culture, and the landscape for what this looks like has seen a huge revolution in recent years. Thanks to media representation of good company culture in workplaces on screen, in addition to the lifestyle changes brought on by the global pandemic, priorities have shifted. In
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It is no secret that the UK economy is going through a rather tumultuous period. With so much change coming at us from every which way, the knock-on effects have been vast and sometimes surprising. For example, the current cost of living crisis which is seeing grocery prices and energy bills skyrocket. If we had
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You may find it difficult to gauge your own business’s performance if you run your own business. There are so many different aspects and definitions of success that one person’s idea of what that looks like might not be the same as yours. So what defines a great business depends on what you, the owner,
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