
Delighting Your Customers Through Added Value
With customers having less to spend it's ever more important to make sure they're spending their disposable income with you. A loyal group of customers can keep your business afloat in turbulent waters.
As budgets are squeezed discount stores…

Your Guide to Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is selling someone else's products for a commission, it's one of the many ways you can make money online.
Affiliate marketing isn't easy but with the right kind of audience and a strategy you can make it work. I interviewed…

Find Your Strengths, The Money Will follow
The quickest road to being successful in business is to find your strengths and utilise them. Utilise them to help people, to entertain people, to make people's life better in some way. If you do that, the money will follow.
If you're a…

Eight Secrets of Successful Self Employment
I've been self employed for nearly ten years now. Anyone who tells you it's easy is lying. It is fulfilling. There's a big difference. It does bring a level of freedom and autonomy that some people will thrive on. Over the years I've learned…

Nine Ways to Create Multiple Streams of Income
Diversification and having multiple streams of income is really helpful in business for smoothing out the inevitable ebbs and flows. I started my own self employed journey ten years ago when I started earning a few pounds online, even now although…

Where's Your Business At?
It's useful to do a periodic audit and figure out where your business is at. An annual look at your business in some depth can help you work out what the next steps might be.
You might find it useful to ask yourself the following questions;
Where…

Working to Your Rhythm
Since working for myself I’ve been able to design my own working day. Over the last ten years I have become attuned to my mood, my emotions, and my motivation levels.
Author Esther Freud said about her working day in The Guardian “My…