Why Firing Your Clients Is The Best Approach For Business Success
It sounds counter-intuitive doesn’t it? How can firing your clients make your business grow? You need clients to generate revenue that you can invest in your business, right? Yes, but they need to be the right clients for you and your business. I’m talking about the...
My journey to prepare for GDPR
I’ve been talking about GDPR for quite a while now, but I haven’t really shared my story and how I ended up offering GDPR support services to other businesses when I was once terrified at the mere mention of it! I’m hoping that by sharing my story, I can reassure...
My Top Tips for Re-opting in a MailChimp Subscriber List
It seems that a few of those GDPR rumbles we’d been fearing for a while turned into an actual earthquake in the days before the 25 May. Every time we looked at our email inboxes there was yet another ‘you need to resubscribe’ message waiting for us. I don’t know about...
12 Weeks on the Road – how I’m preparing to become location independent
As many of you know, I’m going travelling for 12 weeks this year and will be working while I’m on the road. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do with my husband and will be quite the challenge as we’ll be travelling through 5 countries with our 2 children in tow!...
3 Reasons Why I Can’t Make You GDPR Compliant
It might seem like a silly statement to make when I offer GDPR services, but there’s only so much you can outsource to reach full compliance. I’m offering support and guidance based on my understanding of the new law - General Data Protection Regulation. The guidance...
Getting your WordPress Website ready for GDPR
If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you’ll have seen me talk about GDPR a few times, but let’s go over what it is once more before delving into how to make your WordPress website compliant. General Data Protection Regulation is the new EU data protection law...
The art of keeping busy in your business – how to achieve more when time is tight
Have you ever noticed that the more work you have to do, the more you seem to get done? Sometimes we’ll worry that we’ve taken on too much and will never be able to get it all done on time, but we usually manage it, right? I’ve found it’s during the quiet weeks that...
Reflections of a business owner – what I’ve learned over the last four years
Four years ago, I didn’t know if running my own business would work but I wanted to try. Looking back, I didn’t have any ideas on what I needed to have in place to start my new business, how to find clients or what to charge. So, I took a leap of faith. Since 2014...
The Easy Way to Make Your Office Paper Free
Did you know that the average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of paper every year? That’s approximately 20 reams of paper per year, and of those 10,000 sheets? 6,800 are considered waste, due to incorrect printing, duplicates and simply forgetting you’d already...
How to stop your business taking over your life – from overwhelm to organised in 5 simple steps
Do you frequently feel that you’re never away from work? No matter where you are and what you might be doing, it’s easy to start thinking of all those business tasks that you need to get on top of, but never seem to quite manage to. With so much to do and such little...