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 [...]
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 [...]
Apr
24
2011
I love looking at peoples website, when I meet them on Twitter, Facebook, at a networking event one of the first things I do is look at that website to see how pretty it is and how much business I think it gets them. I actually did this before I started my wedding planning business, [...]
Dec
29
2010
We all like to think we offer a really great service and that our customers will be completely satisfied but how do we convince new customers of this? Well, if you are in the wedding industry you actually have an advantage because weddings are so emotive and the brides are pretty much driven by how [...]
Nov
14
2010
I’ve spent the last 13 years working for myself, some ideas have been successful, others less so but in those years I have learnt exactly what works and what doesn’t in business. By far my most successful business (so far ) was my Wedding Planning business called Kiss The Frog which I sold earlier this [...]
Jul
13
2010
Even when you are mostly confident, sassy, and fabulous its almost impossible not to have certain insecurities just like everyone else, and my insecurities have well and truly come to the fore recently and given me an almighty slap and taught me an invaluable lesson which I will share in the hope that you can [...]
Mar
21
2010
When I think of charisma I think of George Clooney, but then again when I think of wallpaper, teapots, tennis, ok pretty much anything at all, I think of George Clooney!!! Seriously – he does have charisma and charm doesn’t he? Is it the hint of a smile he’s always got? Is it that he [...]