Posts tagged Business advice
Easy Business Mindfulness Exercise: Reflect, Refocus and Thrive!

Try our quick Business Mindfulness Exercise to celebrate wins, learn from the past, evaluate customer satisfaction, and Reconnect with your ‘WHY’. Set year-end goals and make it happen. Take a moment to reflect and progress. Need help with your 'WHY'? Check out our resource!

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Free Template: How to Write a Great Marketing Brief

Taking a few minutes to create a proper brief to share everything your team needs to know about your business and brand can save you so much time and pain in the future.
Read our article to learn how to write a brief to make sure everyone is on the same page. We’ve included a free downloadable template to get you started!

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FREE DOWNLOAD: Big Picture Annual Planner!

Are you ready to do big things with your business this year? Make it happen! We’ve created a free downloadable annual planner that you can use to put your goals down on paper and turn them into reality. Whether or not you’ve set your goals for the year already, this tool will help you put some structure around your thoughts and help you make a successful year. Download it now!

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Getting to Know Your Target Audience

If you’ve worked with us or if you’ve attended one of our workshops, you’ll know that one of the first things we’ll ask you is “Who’s your target customer?” Because really this is the beginning and end of any successful marketing! If your answer to this is everyone or I don’t know, this is for you!

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Want to Start a Business? Take These Lessons from My Entrepreneurship Journey

Are you thinking about becoming an entrepreneur? Maybe you’re not feeling that stable in your day job, perhaps you just feel thrilled by the idea of what the entrepreneurship lifestyle could offer or you’ve had that eureka idea that you’re dying to execute. Whichever path you’re on, know that this road isn’t always easy. Today, we’re sharing our top lessons from the past years.

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Should You Start Your Own Business?

Are you thinking about launching a business? Not quite sure if it’s right for you? Many of our clients have been in your shoes. Having worked with over 100 founders and companies, we find many entrepreneurs tend to fall into one of 4 categories. See if one of these describes you. Depending on the answer, you will have a different journey.

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Is my business idea good enough?

They say you never know until you try. When it comes to starting a business however, a bit of market research can go a long way to get a pretty good idea of whether or not it’s actually worth trying beforehand. That may sound tedious, but it may spare your hours of pain and disappointment. So, let’s go through the basic steps you can take to conduct preliminary market research before launching your business and ensure success!

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4 Ways to Bring Your Business Online

For retailers that rely on brick and mortar stores to drive sales, the reality that people have fallen in love with the convenience of online shopping poses significant challenges, but also opportunities. If you can dust yourself off and reimagine your business strategy, you might find that investing in your digital presence and increasing your online marketing efforts, could have long-lasting advantages. Here are 4 things you can do right now to set yourself up for success!

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A lazy person’s guide to goal setting

Procrastinators may get a bad wrap, but often among entrepreneurs, procrastination tends not to come from a place of laziness but rather a sense of perfectionism; a deep seeded fear that if you don’t do it right, you shouldn’t do it at all. But if you don’t set goals, how can you pursue your purpose and even more so, how can you be sure you’re on track? Doing something is always better than doing nothing. Use our lazy person’s guide to set your goals for the new year.

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The Secret to a Captivating Elevator Pitch

What makes a captivating elevator pitch? Whether you’re trying to appeal to new customers or seeking investment, being able to pitch what you do in a compelling way is invaluable. If you find yourself rambling on and on and see people’s eyes glaze over as you talk about your company, try your hand at our worksheet!

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Getting Ahead When Business Is Slow

When business is good, life feels good! But what about when business slows down? Most businesses have a slow down in their business cycle. You could just wait it out, and it probably wouldn’t be the end of the world, but what might happen if you leaned in and made use of those quiet times instead? In entrepreneurship. the greatest gift is time. Time to pause, time to reflect, time to strategise, re-energise and find new focus. Learn how you could make the most of this time.

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A Practical Guide to Weathering the Storms in Business

At some point in your career as an entrepreneur, you can almost guarantee that you’ll face a turning point that feels like a disaster. Anxiety, overwhelm, panic. You may not be able to avoid these things all together, but you can use techniques to deal with them. In this post we’ll break down a seven-step game plan to help you weather the storm. 

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