Not Business Related – more a rant

That Voice In Your Head  – It’s not you… In these posts, I share a little of my life, what makes me, me. Often the content is a bit strong – you have been warned. This voice has been with me all of my life, it’s never been positive – it’s never really helped me […]

There is in business and in life a natural cycle, a natural way of doing things. We talk about a natural way as though we understand it, as if we understand our actions are somehow in sync with the natural rhythms or the natural processes of life. The reality is most of your actions are

That thing inside your skull is a lump of flesh internally connected and in control of everything you do and understand. It’s evolved like it has to keep you alive, to make sure you stand up and balance on two legs, along with allowing you to walk and listen – to see and to love.

Further news this week that Google is about to change its algorithm once more and that should cause a fair bit of chaos for most small business owners that are relying on their websites for sales and marketing activities. It was once said to me that “front page of Google is better than an orgasm”

When your small business start to struggle for sales, what is your reaction? Do you sit back and analyse, look through the patterns of production and sales consider carefully your marketing and lead generation strategy, consider what you’ve been doing that’s worked. Do you look at your website analytics, consider your joint venture partners, think

I don’t know what’s going on in retail. If Arcadia group rumours are true then the whole sector would appear to be a lot worse off than one dare admit. Shopping habits are changing, plenty of people are now moving to online purchases instead of trapsing around the high street on cold and windy days

I must admit that I have been a little bit addicted last week and this. The goings on in Parliament and also in  Europe have been interesting or maybe that’s me being masochistic? Answers on a postcard to that one please. It does seem,  that for whatever reason, our Prime Minister is unable to not

Do you have an interesting new product or service? Perhaps it’s completely new or maybe a new idea on an old theme. Provided you want to start selling it face to face or even online I can help you. Really, I promise to give you the heads on on an ideal sales system and the

“When you are ready for the naked truth, balls out honesty to increase sales for your  business you’ll need to know that it isn’t science but is systems and effort – I support you with both.” Richard Smith I am an experienced sales professional with digital – offline skills, who works with small and medium-sized

Chatting to one of my Ninja’s last week (I run a small business mentoring group call the “Ninjas”) and we had an interesting conversation about working patterns and what hours she should work in her business and whether or not it was worthwhile her having flexible opening times in order to maximise sales.  My response