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 […]
Facebook Marketing & Your Business?
On this podcast Judith asks Nicola to explain Facebook marketing from scratch, why it’s so powerful and how it can work for small businesses. Nicola’s enjoying working in a team again and loving using Slack for team communications while Judith’s impressed by one of her clients who evolved from “me, me, me” to “how can […]
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 […]
7 Day Startup | 12 Months On
This has been an astonishing month. On 22nd December, early morning, I was chatting to Dan Norris on Slack (yes! THAT Dan Norris, who wrote the book “7 Day Startup” that got me started with ClicksAndLeads.com) and he gave me access to his Facebook Ads account. I have to pinch myself to help me believe […]
Founding A Startup Is An Emotional Ride (says Alex Blumberg)
With an overactive brain and an overactive imagination, I’m finding that listening to podcasts is a great positive way to get off to sleep, especially listening to the soft Aussie accents (sorry guys!) One of my favourites – that actually kept me awake – at the moment is “Startup” by Alex Blumberg. He’s telling the […]
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 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, […]
7 Day Startup | Day 2 | Minimum Viable Product
I’ve been mulling over my idea to create a new business startup, kind of like a “WPCurve for Facebook Ads” (and eventually Twitter and other social media paid ads). View Day 1 – The Idea where I shared how all the different elements of the idea came together… In Day 1 in Dan Norris’ excellent […]