We’re into the first week of the school holidays here and if you are coping with kids at home I hope it’s all going OK! Are you having a well deserved break away? Do you have a few days out planned? Or are you busy juggling work with family and [...] Read more »
5 Tips To Get Better Results From Social Media
One of the key issues that continues to crop up with people that I work with is Social Media. Do any of these sound familiar? - Feeling of overwhelm, you know you ought to be using Social Media but don’t really know where to start or if you are doing the right [...] Read more »
This Ruins Most Freelance Trainers
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 »
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 »
How I’m Making Money From Home This Week
This week is a massive one for me. As I’m writing this one of my Associate Trainers, Nicki Davey is running my 1 Day Workshop How To Create A Successful And Profitable Training Business – The Easy Way! in the South West and on Friday Angie Reed will be doing the same [...] 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 »
Should You Be Using Taster Sessions To Attract New Clients?
One of the questions that I have been asked several times recently in Mentoring sessions with clients is: ‘Should I be using taster sessions to introduce myself to potential new clients?’ A taster session is an offer of a free or reduced rate session to a business where you basically [...] 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 »
4 Good Reasons To Run Public Workshops
Here are 4 good reasons to add public workshops into your range of services: 1. Additional income stream If you get the marketing and promotion of your workshop right so that you get enough people there and if you get your ticket price right you will be able to generate [...] Read more »