Book Resources
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How to improve your elevator pitch or elevator speech and improve your networking
An easy way to improve your networking is to learn how to improve your elevator pitch.Let’s face it, when you’re self-employed...
Why you should get into automation in your business
Even if you’re self-employed you should be looking to introduce automation in your business. Every business has common tasks that are repeated...
Blogging made easy – Get those blog posts written in less time
Blogging is incredibly good for your website and can help your site perform better than your competitors. The problem is that writing blog posts...
How an accountability group can help you and your business
An accountability group can help you with ideas, encouragement and support and can really help to get you and your business moving forward. The idea...
The importance of taking a weekly day off
Our mind and body regularly need time to recover and refresh from the working week. Your wellbeing depends on it. However, when you’re...
How to choose business books to make the most of learning
It’s it’s important to know how to choose business books because there is a load of ‘not very useful’ stuff that’ll be...
How to get more done in your most productive time of day!
Your productivity isn’t always about writing lists and putting things in your diary. Learning how to get more done is often a...
Why a focus on value can revolutionise your marketing
When you focus on value it can improve your whole product offering and make your marketing so much easier and successful. Find out how here:
Why you should have a website (even if you only have a tiny business)
learn why it’s vital to have your own website (even if you’re a tiny business) and pick up some key pointers on how to get your own website.
Consistent – the real key to marketing success
Fewer than 10% of self-employed people are consistent with their marketing and, because of it, very few get good results. Find out more here.
Why looking after spending is good for your business
In this video you’ll discover some of the things that you don’t need to spend money on and why/how it can help your business.
8 Top Business Growth Tips from a Serial Entrepreneur
Chelsea Baldwin (entrepreneur and copywriter) shares her Top Business Growth Tips in this blog post and podcast episode.
Why constant learning is only half the story if you want to improve
Constant learning is key if you want to be successful. This post (with video) explains the idea of putting knowledge into ACTION:
Why you should never stop marketing!
One of the keys to building a sustainable business is to ‘never stop marketing’. It’s a common thing for people to stop doing the...
Are you being productive or just active?
When you’re self-employed your ability to get stuff done is a key skill. This quick tip will help you work on the stuff that’s most important.
7 top business tips from a successful self-employed recruitment specialist
Life as a self-employed recruitment specialist can be tough. Caroline Hunt shares tips on how she’s successfully made it through 10 years.
Time management is a lie – here’s how to really improve your productivity
Want to improve your productivity? Well, ditch time-management and get into good routines. This post (with video) gives you some pointers.
How to be better at networking
It’s not difficult to be better at networking. In this post you’ll learn a few simple tweaks to help you improve your connections and results
The reason why we do it
Ever thought about the reason why we do it? After all, when you’re self-employed you’ll often work longer hours for less money than if...
Here’s why blogging is good for marketing
For some reason, only a small number of small businesses get the fact that blogging is good for marketing. But it really is the best way to get your...
How to beat perfectionism with a ‘good enough’ approach
Want to discover how to beat perfectionism? Check out this simple ‘good enough’ approach to overcome perfectionism and really get stuff done.
8 great reasons to use Youtube in your marketing
You should definitely use Youtube in your marketing because it’s the unsung hero of social media marketing. Find out why in this post & video
9 Top self-employment tips from a successful social media marketing specialist
And this episode of the Smashing podcast Libby Langley shares self-employment tips and what you can do to make your life and business better.
Why you should keep in touch with customers and contacts
It’s almost a given that you should keep in touch with customers and contacts in business.However, many small businesses are really bad at...
3 simple ideas to help you and your business flow
3 simple ideas to help you and your business flow! Check out these simple, but powerful, ideas that can help you get more customers and get more done.
Why you shouldn’t be into every marketing channel
You don’t have to be into every marketing channel to reach customers. Read this post (& video) on how to make marketing work by doing less.
Top business tips from a successful self-employed graphic designer
In this blog post and podcast episode we interview Clare McCabe of Purple Star Design where Clare shares her top tips for being in business for nearly 20 years and becoming a successful self-employed graphic designer.
How to take a holiday when you’re self-employed
It can be very stressful to take a holiday when you’re self-employed. Largely because the business is your thing and, effectively, you are you...
The best bit of marketing advice EVER!
This simple bit of marketing advice has helped me and loads of my clients seriously increase marketing results. In fact, when we got to grips with...
Do this if you want to get more done!
When you’re self-employed it’s important to focus and get stuff done. So here’s a simple idea that will enable you to get more done.