My business mentor hosts mentoring call-in days for clients, just like I do, and he always says the same thing at the beginning of the call which is “come on the call and ask the biggest question you have, the question that, if you got it answered, would help you move your business forward right [...] Read More Of This Article...
Business Diary | Sharing Your Business Story & Being The Change
This week I’ve been doing a lot of thinking as well as a lot of doing. I’m always doing, and most of the time I’m always thinking too, but I’ve been doing some EXTRA thinking this week. Perhaps that’s because I’ve been undergoing a course of hypnosis AND I’ve been using meditation MP3’s to hypnotise [...] Read More Of This Article...
Interview: I Bring The Gelignite To Blast Away Your Obstacles To Online Success
I’ve been interviewed over at the Entrepreneur Soul Superblog by Judith Morgan, an ex-client, ex-business partner and forever friend. Judith says: “In the first of a series of interviews with our entrepreneur members, bloggers and pals, here’s Nicola Cairncross, Internet Mentor, who describes herself as your own personal gelignite. I asked her five key questions [...] Read More Of This Article...
Should We Be Using Linked In More Than Facebook Or Twitter?
Over at the ProfKRG blog Kenna Griffin is asking if we should be using Linked In more than Facebook or Twitter? I’m an avid user of the latter two but can’t get to grips with Linked In at all, so the post caught my attention (on Twitter natch!). Her friend Steven Chappell is the student media [...] Read More Of This Article...
Are You An Amazing? If You’re Retired & Know Something About Anything You Probably Are!
Over at the wonderful Entrepreneur Soul Superblog (rapidly becoming a daily must visit), Marion Ryan shared the story of The Amazings which I absolutely loved. She says “If you live in East London you have probably heard of them already but if not, it’s a brilliant idea dreamed up by entrepreneur Adil Abrar, to connect [...] Read More Of This Article...
Ray Of Hope For Entrepreneurs? Banks Lending Target Smaller Businesses
The BBC reports: “A £20bn government scheme to try to boost bank lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been launched by the chancellor. Under the National Loan Guarantee Scheme (NLGS), such businesses will be able to access loans with interest rates one percentage point lower than those available outside the initiative. Barclays, Santander, [...] Read More Of This Article...
Would You Rather Do Without Sex, Chocolate Or Your Broadband?
The BBC reports that “The internet contributes to 8.3% of the UK economy, a bigger share than for any of the other G20 major countries, a new study suggests. The “internet economy” was worth £121bn in 2010, more than £2,000 per person, researchers at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) said. That made it bigger than [...] Read More Of This Article...
Business Diary | Camouflaging Cats, 7 Days To Online Biz, Jazz Albums On iTunes & Streaming Live
It’s been mad, mad, mental, totally sic (sic) for this entrepreneur, with my business, in the last few weeks around here. Now, Imagine that said in the tone of voice used by the surprised cat in the “Camouflage Cat” translation video (and if you haven’t seen that yet, you are in for a real TREAT! [...] Read More Of This Article...
Crowdfunding | Could It Work For Your Business?
This last week, I ventured into the world of Crowdfunding via IndieGoGo to try and raise the dosh needed for the Brighton Jazz Festival to put on a great headline act, pay for the PR and provide a cash prize and trophy for the winner of the “New Jazz Composition” competition. I first heard about [...] Read More Of This Article...
Business Diary | My Manifesting Streak Continues, Getting Productive & Pinterest
By Tuesday I’d already had an amazing week, with one of the most productive Monday’s I’ve spent for a while. This was triggered by my writing a blog post about how stuck I felt, listing the areas I hadn’t moved forward in, doing which exercise either unstuck something or shamed me into taking action. I [...] Read More Of This Article...
