During the week I always set time aside to provide a number of complimentary consultations, these are just 30 minute sessions where you can call me up and we can chat about the biggest challenges in your business right now. One of the most common issues I get is this: [...] Read more »
The Best Way I Know To Attract New Business
As I mentioned to you last week, when I first set up my training business 10 years ago I had just moved into a new area, I had pretty much left all my contacts behind and I didn’ t know anyone. I also knew nothing about selling and marketing. This [...] Read more »
5 Ways To Increase Your Network
Last week I had an email from someone who really wanted to set up as a freelance trainer. The one thing that was getting in the way was the feeling that he didn’t have enough contacts or people in his network to make a go of it. I know exactly [...] Read more »
Why Freelance Trainers Should Be Creating a Support Network
There’s no getting away from it, freelance training can be very lonely. It’s vitally important to build up a group of people who you can call on. who you can open up to, talk honestly about how you are feeling, get ideas and support from. And obviously that goes 2 [...] Read more »
Here’s What People Had To Say About Trainer Talk Live In Birmingham
Wow! Another fabulous day at Trainer Talk Live in Birmingham, where once again we were treated to a whole day of Social Media with the famous Jo Dodds. It seems to be such a hot topic amongst you at the moment and there were so many questions that the 2 [...] Read more »
Here’s What People Had To Say About Trainer Talk Live in London
We had a great day at Trainer Talk Live in London on 4 March. Jo Dodds gave a brilliant session on Social Media – she was in fact just going to speak for 2 hours but by popular demand ended up running her workshop for the whole day! There was [...] Read more »
How To Take The Stress Out Of Networking
A couple of weeks ago I interviewed Gary Morgan and Jeremy Snell on How To Get Corporate Clients for my monthly Webcast. Both Gary and Jeremy have built impressive client lists in less than 2 years and have thriving training businesses. I asked them ‘What is the biggest piece of [...] Read more »
Here’s What People Had To Say About The Latest Trainer Talk Live!
I had a great day at Trainer Talk Live in Birmingham on Friday. Great to reconnect with so many people and meet new folks too. Andy Lopata www.lopata.co.uk delivered yet another excellent workshop on Generating Business Through Referrals. Andy showed us a really strategic and practical approach to actually getting [...] Read more »
Here’s What People Had To Say About Trainer Talk Live
I had a great day at Trainer Talk Live in London on Friday. Great to reconnect with so many people and meet new folks too. Andy Lopata www.lopata.co.uk delivered an excellent workshop on Generating Business Through Referrals. As one person commented, ‘I thought my approach to networking was pretty good [...] Read more »
How To Have A Productive Summer
Here in the UK the school holidays have just started, seven long weeks of kids being around the house and asking ‘What are we going to do today Mum?’ Most freelance trainers work from home and whilst we must take the opportunity to enjoy spending time with our children, there’s [...] Read more »