Feb
06
2012
I love really nice make-up! A couple of years ago I was in John Lewis and had in mind that I would buy new make-up, I was browsing the Chanel counter, didn’t find what I wanted and then a woman from the Bobbi Brown counter spoke to me and asked if I’d like to sit and have [...]
Dec
28
2011
My baby is 7 weeks old this week and me and my partner have been taking loads and loads of photos of her almost daily. It would be nice though if I had some professional shots of her because I know she is only going to be this tiny once and that the moment soon [...]
Dec
19
2011
Everyone loves M & S, we all aspire to do our weekly grocery shop there because the food is just amazing but how do we know the food is so amazing? Of course we’ve all had food from there and probably enjoyed it but mostly its to do with their marketing which is simply genius [...]
Oct
17
2011
If there’s one thing I get asked more than anything else its ‘How can I get more clients’ or ‘How can I get more sales’ Trust me, if I had a magic wand that I could wave to solve this problem then I’d probably be writing this blog from my million pound yacht moored just [...]
Oct
07
2011
My first introduction to Apple was about 10 years ago, I was dating an IT expert and it used to drive me nuts the way he always told me what I SHOULD be doing on my laptop and was always using it and ‘upgrading’ it. One afternoon my car was broken into, my laptop (amongst other [...]
Sep
29
2011
Unfortunately in business things change all the time, and some business people like the challenge of keeping ahead of the competition and coming up with new ways to do business and make themselves original and others definitely do not! If you want to succeed in business long term then you have to be in the [...]
Sep
21
2011
It always astounds me how many email newsletters and blog I receive that make a really good read but they have no ultimate ‘Call to Action’ about them. The whole purpose of writing blog, articles, newsletters, direct mail, website copy etc should be to get yourself more business and if you are just writing with no [...]
Sep
19
2011
Whenever I am contacted by someone new the first thing I do is have a long chat with them to establish where they are now with their business and what their biggest challenge is right now. More often than not the problem is lack of customers and people want a quick fix to get them, [...]
Aug
16
2011
I was inspired to write this blog today because a couple of businesses irritated me this morning with their marketing. The first one was on Twitter and they were promoting a package they were offering and they tweeted the same thing about 4 times in less than hour. Now, I’m all for repeating yourself, especially [...]
Aug
04
2011
I don’t know about you but when I first became self-employed one of the reasons was because the skys the limit on your earnings. My Dad has said to me more times than I care to remember ; “you’ll never get rich working for someone else” Well this is true of course but I wonder [...]