Do you ever have times when you feel overwhelmed, indecisive and unclear about how you are going to get new business? Should you be doing more networking? Is social media the answer? Isn’t it about time you started blogging? Etc etc etc ….. To cut through the clutter and get [...] Read more »
The One Thing All Freelance Trainers Must Learn
It’s one thing being a good trainer; able to improve a sales team performance, facilitate workshops or improve someone’s presentation skills. But when it comes to being a successful freelance trainer in business for yourself – a trainer who is constantly and consistently in work, has a regular income stream [...] Read more »
This Might Make You Nervous – But It Works!
One of the things that has stood me in good stead over the years in terms of marketing my business is the idea that you should only use a marketing method that you really enjoy and feel comfortable doing. Afer all, if you don’t enjoy doing something there is a [...] Read more »
6 Ways To Get Clients To Come To You
What an absolutely fabulous day we had at Trainer Talk Live last Friday. It was lovely to see so many people there, to reconnect with old friends and meet some new ones too. Thanks to Gary Gorman and Ali Campbell for two great sessions, both very different but both equally useful and [...] Read more »
4 Great Resources To Help You Grow Your Training Business
Wow! My message to you last week seemed to strike a chord and provoked an unexpected and immediate reaction… within minutes of sending it out I had loads of emails and tweets – so thankyou! Here are just a couple: ‘A great email and one that I need to action [...] Read more »
4 Quick Confidence Boosters For Freelance Trainers
On my Linked In Group – Trainer Talk – on Friday I posed the question: ‘What have you achieved this week?’ I’d been prompted to pose this question by the conversations I’d had recently with some of my clients – freelance trainers who are just starting out or more established [...] 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 »
Life As A Freelance Trainer: How To Overcome The Wobble Factor
When I first started out as a freelance trainer I was really excited, enthusiastic and positive. I was absolutely buzzing with ideas and plans about how to make my business a success and I just couldn’t wait to start putting it all into practice. I felt a little bit anxious [...] Read more »
Why Have I Set My Alarm To Write This Blog Post?
This weekend I was honoured to be invited along to Carrie Wilkerson’s Mastermind Group in London. It was a fabulous day, I met up with some of my best business buddies as well as meeting some new people too. I really want to share with you a couple of fantastic [...] Read more »
Success Forming Habits
This week’s article comes courtesy of my friend and fellow trainer Jenny Flintoft, who together with Carrie Wilkerson runs the phenomenally successful Association of Work at Home Women. Jenny, Carrie, myself and other successful people believe that success doesn’t happen either overnight or by accident. One of Jenny’s recent articles [...] Read more »