We’ve touched on the overwhelming feeling most equine business owners get when they try to decide where to spend time marketing online. We have limited amounts of time as business...
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There are so many marketing and social media tools for business owners. It makes it hard to keep up with what is new, what is worth trying, or even how...
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Hiring team members, contractors, and other professionals for your business can be scary! But fear not, because every small business has had to tread these waters and it can do...
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It can be challenging to invest in your business, especially if you are in the start-up phase or in a sales lull and money is tight. It’s difficult to figure...
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Most small business owners are way too familiar with over-commitment. If it were just about learning time management, we wouldn’t keep doing it over and over. Some of it stems...
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An unpleasant part of business ownership is the double-edged sword of putting yourself out there with your amazing product or service. Sometimes you’ll change someone’s life with your offering, and...
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Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, SEO, Email Marketing, Blog posts, Oh My! With SO many ways to build and cultivate an audience, which do I focus on, and can I do them...
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One of the most frustrating parts of social media is feeling like we FINALLY put ourselves "out there" only to just hear crickets. In reality, social media is part art,...
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Hey, we’ve all been there. Procrastination has plagued us all at one point or another, and the truth is, it’s fear in disguise. That’s why it feels so impossible to...
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One of the biggest hang-ups for a new business owner (procrastinating-out-of-fear business owners cough cough) is getting stuck on branding their business. I have a few tips for you if...
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Look at your stats! Statistics are important tools for horse business owners (or any business owner for that matter!). If you use them correctly, you’ll have invaluable insight into your...
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“Charge what you’re worth” is a popular phrase in the entrepreneurial world that has caught a lot of buzz. But with imposter syndrome, where a lot of us don’t see...
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‘There’s not enough hours in the day” I hear you say? Sometimes, we feel like we are just ‘going as fast as we can’ but I am going to share...
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If I told you we were going to set everything up for you to go live on Facebook and/or Instagram ... to talk about yourself and your business ... RIGHT...
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Sometimes, it feels like all we need in our lives is these few extra things; More hours in the day A clone More wine, and More hours in the day...
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Want to know why I am so good at helping people get past the fear of competition and haters? First hand experience. I have 100% lived almost everything people have...
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Eighteen months ago, I had a vision of doing a few little one day events with my irish sport horse JD. It had been years since I had really jumped...
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Every business at some point in time will experience a challenging time, and planning ahead for those times can make the difference. It may be an injury to yourself, or...
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Working with Melody. Have you ever heard the expression “you don’t know what you don’t know”? I thought that a lot when I started working with Melody! I had been...
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When I first advertised my services after becoming Qualified, there was a point I thought - “oh I might not get any business, maybe owner’s might not be interested” -...
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“What if I’m not good enough?” “What if someone badmouths me?” “What if I don’t know all the answers?” “What if I upset XYZ (normally, a competitor) As a business...
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If you work for yourself and boundaries haven’t been on the agenda, chances are, you feel like you are working all day every day, right? You feel like you need...
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Life happens to small business owners. Unexpected things happen to everyone, at the most inconvenient time. It’s something you can’t control, and often you can’t even plan for it. The...
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I recently received an email from a company and the subject line was ‘newsletter #1’. The email came from a person’s name, that I didn’t know, so there wasn’t a...
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One of the things I get asked about the most is using FB for business. There’s so much to learn, and then once you get a handle on it, something...
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There's so much to be said for technology, it has given us instant access to a whole world, no universe of things. If we had a question about something "BI"...
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Not all of the entrepreneurs I work with have horse businesses. One is a 12 year old boy (my son) who wanted to make some extra pocket money. He began...
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For many small business owners, just getting their head around the idea of having a website is hard enough let alone when someone starts talking about SEO, which by the…
It’s a simple question, easy to answer, and if you have ummm and arrr about your answer, then it’s a straight no. Are you doing what you love? But more…
Is having competition in small business something to worry about? For some, it’s all they worry about. And for some, they live and breathe the fears that having competitors brings…
And how it saved me from drowning in files… I’ve told a few people that I am aiming to have a paperless office, inspired by another entrepreneur I met a…
Late last year I met a really cool lady. Inspiring even. We were amongst 6 people attending a trick training and liberty clinic by the inspiring Sandi Simons. She sat…
First of all, if you haven’t already, it’s not too late to sign up to my mailing list. You get a free copy of my tips for a great facebook…
So, Happy New Year to everyone! I am writing this blog on January 1st, after spending quite a few hours raking up bark from under the 40 odd white gums…
The path to clear and concise communication. It’s amazing how easy miscommunication occur, right? And they happen more and more these days and there are plenty of reasons why, what…
Recently I organised a small fundraiser to raise money for the victims of the Nepal Earthquake. At the event I presented a talk giving seven tips for moving forward in…
I don’t think I know many people that have got the perfect balance of mobile phone-ness in their life. And I am not even sure I can boast that I…
A few weeks ago, I was talking to a friend who has a great talent and a dream to make that talent she has, into a business for herself. But…
Putting things off. We all do it. For some in fact, it’s an art-form. There were times when I had a to-do list and then a list of things I…
As a child I often used to take a long time to decide on anything, and the saying ‘I used to be indecisive, but now I am not so sure’…
Is finding lost shoes a business skill? Maybe! Imagine this, you are totally in control of every part of your day, you know where you are up to in your…
Overwhelm. It’s a feeling I have known well, overwhelm has crept up and slapped me on the head multiple times, and why wouldn’t it? I am a busy lady. I…
A story that comes from surviving in a VERY competitive business niche in the equine industry (making show browbands) but relevant even beyond the bling. Time and time again in…
So the other day I was going to a friend’s new house and I got lost. I had consulted my GPS before I headed off, and had it directing me,…