Each week, Nicola and Judith tackle one Business Challenge of the Week in their Own It!! podcast. This week, they’re discussing Permission to take time off when you’re feeling poorly: Nicola: I think you’ve got the Client Challenge for us this week. Judith: I have, it’s called – it’s rather complex, long with lots of overlapping […]
Business Challenge Of The Week – Facebook For Business
Each week, Nicola and Judith tackle one Business Challenge of the Week in their Own It!! podcast. This week, they’re discussing Facebook For Businesses: Nicola: Well, we’ve sort of got a Client Challenge and it’s not specific to any client this week, isn’t it? Judith: No, it’s not at all. We’re going to talk about Facebook; […]
Why You Really Need To Be Using Facebook Ads For Your Business!
In the most recent company info posted by social media giant, Facebook, it’s laid out very clearly why you need to be using Facebook, and its advertising platform, for your business. Here are the pertinent figures: 1.04 billion daily active users on average for December 2015 934 million mobile daily active users on average for […]
My Top 5 Entrepreneurs Podcasts (To Listen To Right Now)
Unusually for someone so visual, I’m listening to a lot of podcasts at the moment, when I’m at the gym, when I’m cooking, and when I’m trying to go to sleep earlier. The latter is not a very good strategy though, because I either end up staying awake listening longer than I should, or going […]
Make It Easy For Customers To Buy From You!
I’ve been having a tidy up. Streamlining, simplifying, paring back. Damn, it feels good. I was prompted to do this inadvertently, by a potential future client, who has been emailing me some very long emails telling me their back story and asking for advice. This person has been through all my free stuff, the Reports, […]
Nicola Cairncross @ Athena “Inspire!” Conference
I was delighted to be asked to present at The Athena Network “Inspire!” conference and I shared my story before going on to talk about why you shouldn’t ignore Facebook ads even if you think your prospects are on LinkedIn. (Ditto Twitter btw) * Please note the video is Copyright 2014 of Nicola Cairncross, The Athena […]
7 Day Startup | Day 7 | Launch Your Startup
I left you yesterday while I was listening to soothing podcasts to try and calm down and go to sleep, while waiting for my domain name to propagate to the new hosting at WPEngine… Remember Rich Schefren’s email about my experiences since his Transformation Weekend was going out… today now. I have no idea how […]
7 Day Startup | Day 6 | Set Some Goals
I’m up to Day 6 of Dan Norris’ “7 Day Startup” book and my new startup ClicksAndLeads.com is coming along nicely. It’s all about goal setting today. I’m ambivalent about goal-setting at the best of times, avoided it for years so that I didn’t disappoint myself (how mad is that?), then got into personal development […]
7 Day Startup | Day 5 | 10 Ways To Market Your Startup
Welcome back! We are into Day 5 of Dan Norris’ “The 7 Day Startup” book and it’s all going quite well so far. The new website is pretty much up at ClicksAndLeads.com thanks to the marvellous templates at Leadpages. Every time I look at the name ClicksAndLeads.com I can’t quite believe that it was still […]
7 Day Startup | Day 4 | Build A Website In 1 Day For Under $100
So it’s Day 4 of my “build a startup” challenge and I’ve had to take a couple of days off, well 3 days actually! Christmas Eve saw me being marched up to Tesco’s to do some food shopping by Phoebe, who always gets a bit concerned that I won’t buy anything otherwise. She’s not daft, […]