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Feb 12, 2020
Give the customers what they want

Price + Service + Confidence

I recently added a blog post called ‘Stealth Marketing Gave me 10 New Customers in a Week’ which described how I came across a web hosting company that had lost its way.

Dec 13, 2019
The freedom to work anywhere…

Digital nomad vs nomadic settler

The internet is full of bloggers and Instagrammers who seemingly travel the world with little more than their passport and laptop whilst earning plenty of money as they do it. This is the dream though, right? You are young, you do not have any commitments, want to visit new places and as a digital native, you can find ways to make money online. With the reduced cost of living abroad, what can go wrong? Plus, it’s much more fun than starting a business at home!

Nov 27, 2019
Playing the long game

Stealth marketing gave me 10 new customers in a week

Around this time last year, I added a blog post to the web site of my hosting business. Around 12 months later, this one post bought in 10 new customers within one week and more are still trickling in.

Sep 1, 2019
Going wrong before I went wrong

Why I’m grateful that I did a test launch of my business

Years ago when I had a ‘proper’ job – a proper job to me is working for someone else, doing the 9-5 grind. Working for yourself, although hard work and stressful at times, never quite feels like a real job to me because of the flexibility that it gives you – anyway, back when I worked for someone else, I started my first real online venture. When I look back now, I realise how ridiculous the whole set up was but it provided me with, at least on a subconscious level, some lessons on how not to do things.

Aug 22, 2019
What works and does not work for me

How I market my businesses

It’s the summer and usually a good time for me to relax a bit. Everyone is off on holiday and so I get far fewer calls from customers meaning that I have some much needed ‘spare’ time to work on my businesses. It’s an ideal time to think of new ideas, work on things to improve my work life e.g. efficiencies and generally slow down before I go away on my own holiday – there’s no point working myself into the ground before my trip and then spend the first few days exhausted and rather than enjoying myself, I just spend it catching up on sleep!

Apr 22, 2019
Show off why you’re different

Stand out, do something a little different

The world is hugely competitive. In business, we are all fighting over a finite number of customers, trying to get them to spend their money with us rather than someone else so we need to think of things that will make us stand out so that a customer chooses us.
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