by Emma | Feb 6, 2024 | lifestyle business
My default setting for new tech used to be “No – it’s a fad.” My husband always reminds me of what I said in 1998 about internet shopping. “It’ll never catch on. Who’s going to give their credit card details over the worldwide...
by Emma | Dec 19, 2023 | boundaries, lifestyle business, Productivity
Have you ever been told that: Your time is valuable? You shouldn’t spend your time doing things you don’t enjoy or aren’t great at? You should outsource or automate tasks because your time is too valuable to waste doing them yourself? But maybe your...
by Emma | Nov 14, 2023 | clients, lifestyle business
Everyone’s happy at the start of a project; our new clients are excited, we’re thrilled and life is looking pretty sweet. Until it doesn’t. Until you hit a bump in the road and the smiles have been replaced by anxious, awkward grimaces. This...
by Emma | Dec 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dough needs to rest to produce the best bread. Be like dough! Seeds & bulbs lie silently waiting to spring forth when the time is right. Be like seeds and bulbs! There are no prizes for being the busiest or the most productive person. Yet society intrinsically...
by Emma | Sep 5, 2022 | lifestyle business
I promise this isn’t click bait – though I might have slightly misled you 😉 But there’s a point…. Last week, I went to a burlesque life drawing event; it was the best night out, mixing art with wine, music and general sauciness on stage....
by Emma | Aug 29, 2022 | business practice
I woke up this morning to an email notification that my PicMonkey annual subscription had been auto renewed to the tune of $47.52 I face-palmed myself 🤦♀️ …. the last time I used that service was in 2015. But each year I forget to cancel it because the account...
by Emma | Aug 26, 2022 | boundaries, business practice
Let’s talk about boundaries and bullies in business. Years ago, when I was launching a new business designing chairs, I attended a marketing seminar in a fancy hotel run by a marketing expert. Let’s call him Dr Marcus; he really does call himself Dr,...
by Emma | Aug 15, 2022 | boundaries, lifestyle business
In an ideal world, our family & partners would support us, champion us and truly appreciate our creative business efforts, activities and results. Sadly, for many creatives, this isn’t reality. They’re surrounded by negativity and doubt from those...
by Emma | Aug 8, 2022 | lifestyle business
Have you tried adding a lifestyle model to your business model? Why do we only plan our business activities and goals and hope that we live a fulfilled life by default? How to create a lifestyle model: ⭐️ Know your Be, Do, Have and FEEL goals. I added that last goal...
by Emma | Aug 1, 2022 | lifestyle business, starting a business
Oh, how I enjoy putting the cat amongst the pigeons 😆 🐱 🐦 and this blog post is no different! So much of what we’re taught is just default advice mistaken for conventional wisdom. Often, we simply work on auto pilot. But I want to view things from new...
by Emma | Jul 4, 2022 | business practice, lifestyle business, starting a business
✋Hands up if you’ve bought a business course or hired a business coach who has told you that your NICHE is: a specific problem you are solving for a specific person; a transformation. a targeted type of person who you identify as your ideal client. a narrow but...
by Emma | Jun 23, 2022 | business practice, lifestyle business
This blog post is coming to you from my childhood home in the green and pleasant countryside of southern England….the beauty of having location-independent businesses is that, as long as I have my laptop, iPad, Apple pencil and wifi, I’m all set! I’m...
by Emma | Jun 14, 2022 | business practice, lifestyle business
How do some people manage to charge high prices, while others struggle to sell even at discounted prices? Why do some people walk away from potential clients, while others cling on desperate to make a sale? It all comes down to pricing confidence. Recently, I had a...
by Emma | Jun 1, 2022 | business practice, clients
Don’t make it hard for people to book you, buy from you or to pay you. Don’t make your customers and clients work for you. You’ll be leaving money on the table. 💰 Recently, the person I go to for massages texted me about booking in another...
by Emma | May 2, 2022 | lifestyle business
Last week, I posted a quote by Gary Vaynerchuk on my Facebook business page. It received lots of attention and mostly of the good type. “We need to change the conversation about what success looks like. It’s not to make a billion dollars. It’s to...
