Introduction Etsy can be a great platform to use to sell your products, because it’s an e-commerce system in and of itself, with around 500 million people visiting Etsy each month. That’s a huge audience inside the platform searching for products to buy! It’s fantastic that Etsy brings such high volumes of visitors to the…
Introduction Etsy can be a fantastic marketplace platform to sell your products to potential customers. However, to succeed on etsy, it’s important to understand and use great etsy strategy, to help you sell successfully on the platform. Far too many etsy business owners struggle to make enough sales inside etsy, to make their business profitable….
Etsy can be a great platform for small business owners to showcase and sell their products and services, using Etsy as their online store. But there are some common mistakes Etsy sellers make that may impact their success on the platform. In this blog I’ll share Ten Etsy Listing Mistakes To Avoid, to help make…
Introduction Pinterest can be an incredible platform to use, to drive organic traffic to your small business – including to your products and your services. My success on Pinterest far outweighs any success I have achieved on social media. My current pinning strategy involves pinning just two fresh pins a day, 5 days a week….
Introduction: Email Marketing – Your Route To Greater Revenue Email marketing is a great way to achieve small business growth and increased revenue. Good email marketing can help you make more sales through your email marketing messages. This is why all of the big businesses in the online space have mailing list strategy. Good email…
Introduction Pinterest can be an incredible platform to use to drive organic traffic to your small business. But like any other platform in the online space, in order to maximise your results on Pinterest, you have to understand great and current Pinterest strategy. Many Pinterest users are inside the platform pinning pins to pinterest boards…
Etsy is a bustling marketplace for artisans, vintage sellers, and craft enthusiasts. However, with millions of shops vying for attention on Etsy’s platform, how do you ensure your store is the one that stands out? And how do you attract a steady stream of customers, bringing sales and revenue to your small business? Driving traffic…
Introduction Pinterest can be a brilliant platform for female small business owners looking to drive organic traffic to the inner sanctions of their businesses. But if you’re going to use Pinterest as part of your marketing strategy, it’s important to understand how the platform works, and to set your account up in a way that…
Why you need a mailing list with an Etsy store (and how to drive Etsy traffic to your mailing list)
1. Introduction Canva has become an popular graphic design tool for many female small business owners. Canva can help you to create stunning visuals inside the Canva app, without the steep learning curve of professional design software. You can use Canva for free, and have access to many design features. The Canva pro subscription is…
11 Essentials You Need For A Thriving Etsy Store
No matter the online business you run, digital products can be a great way to significantly increase revenue to your online store. Digital products can provide a passive income stream, that takes away from the daily pressure to have to keep selling and shipping physical products. With the increasing cost of materials, and shipping prices…
Of course we all want more sales and revenue in our small businesses! Whether you have an e-commerce store like Shopify, a standalone website that sells services or products, or you operate from a marketplace platform like Etsy, your goal as a small business owner is to make money so that your business remains alive…
Small business stress is a major concern for female entrepreneurs, and according to a recent Mental Health UK report, 86% of female small business owners reported experiencing poor mental health at least a few times a year. That is a signifcant figure. And worrying. Sometimes when we decide to launch a small business in the…
In this blog post I share 25 tips to help you build confidence as a small busines owner. There’s no doubt about it, growing a small business and becoming a successful entrepreneur is hard. There are many challenges we have to face, many fears we have to overcome, and we have to figure out how…
Small business owners often struggle to make enough sales in their business to not only keep their business afloat, but to make enough profit to stabilise the business, and pay themselves a wage that can transform their lives. In this post I’ll cover 15 Proven Ways To Increase Sales In Your Small Business – and because (whether…
Canva is a great tool you can use for a whole host of design work for your small business. In this blog post I’m going to share 4 different ways you can create tables using Canva. We’ll look at:- – Using a Canva template for your table. – Using the Canva magic assistant for your table….
How to use canva for instagram posts for your small business to stand out on your social account
Customer testimonials are powerful. They help to give your small business credibility, and they’re an effective way for potential customers to more easily make purchasing decisions from you, because they can see you already have satisfied customers. There are many ways to collect customer testimonials, but one way that is often overlooked is to ask…
A welcome email nurture sequence is a great way to start to build deeper relationships with your email list, and in this post I’ll share 7 tips to create a winning welcome email nurture sequence. Before we dive in to those 7 tips, let me refresh your mind about why email content is a great…
How To Manifest Your Small Business Dreams Through Mindset There is no doubt that growing a small business in the online space is a hard journey, and that every single day we have to do our best to bring positive energy to our businesses to be able to create a dream life from the rewards our small business brings. Negative thoughts and negative…
Using Canva for your small business is a great way to create a huge variety of designs for a wide range of content across your brand. If you’re not yet using Canva, here are 10 reasons why you should sign up for an account and start learning how to use Canva today. 1. FREE ACCOUNT There aren’t that…
I wanted to talk to you about all the things that people consider to be normal. And how trying to be normal to fit in can cause you to really struggle in your business. Normal is one of those subjects that is a very individual thing. What may seem normal to you in your life and…
The three critical priorities you need to focus on every day in your small business
Do you know the avatar your small business serves? For those of you who might not understand the meaning of the word avatar, it means the perfect customer or client you wish to serve and sell to in your small business. I know lots of female small business owners never take time to identify their…
HOW I SIMPLIFIED THE BLOG, PODCAST AND YOU TUBE CONTENT CREATION FOR MY SMALL BUSINESS Let’s face it, as solopreneurs with small businesses, with have to juggle a lot. And part of our daily life is the requirement to be visible wherever we can in the online space, in order to get eyes on us…
How To Build Your Small Business Even In A Bad Economy
How To Build Your Small Business Even In A Bad Economy
Common mistakes small business owners make
7 Common Mistakes Small Business Owners Make
Introduction In recent years we’ve seen more and more small businesses explode into the online space. And the good news is that many of those small businesses are women-led businesses. There has been enormous growth in female founders becoming hugely successful entrepreneurs. Where once the opportunity to grow a successful work from home small business…
How to drive people to your mailing list from social media to sell more in your business.
how to not let unfollows and unsubscribes impact you in your small business as a female entrepreneur
As a small business owner do you care what people think of you?
If you’ve READ MY PREVIOUS POST – you’ll now understand why it’s so important to have a mailing list in your business. If you’ve not yet read that post, and if you don’t have a mailing list, I’d urge you to go read it now and then come back here, because you’ll need to understand…
One of the important key components of any good business model is a mailing list. And yet it is one component I see many female entrepreneurs skip creating for their small business. In this post I’ll cover why it’s essential that you set up and use a mailing list, the benefits of doing this, and…
Every week thousands of people start businesses in the online space and every week thousands of people close their businesses in the online space. And somewhere in the middle are the people that just keep hanging on. Since starting my business just over three years ago, there have been many days where I’ve felt the…
Identify. Renovate. Relaunch. Your three key steps for better small business sucess.
Make profit in your female entrepreneur owned business
learn to charge what you are worth as a female entrepreneur
Can you imagine what it would feel like to wake up every day knowing you have an online business that’s super successful, you’re in charge of your work, your days, your life, your finances, your future? Your business means you don’t have to work another job, ever. You can be there for your children when…
Growing a business in the online space can be very demanding. And often it feels that the results are coming way too slow. But there are strategies you can use to help you cope with the day to day challenges of running/growing a business. Here are ten strategies you can take away today. Let’s dive…
The art of selling. I don’t know why so many people feel icky about selling. I know small business owners who feel their blood turn to ice at the very thought of opening their mouths and promoting their products and services. As if we’re insulting people by doing so. But girl. If you don’t sell….
Working from home to build a small but successful business is amazing. Doing this has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I love getting up every day knowing that my business is part of my home life. As an introvert this suits me perfectly. But working from home does not come without…
Let’s talk about whether you feel other people’s opinions of you in business matter. We live in a world where there are two ends of a scale in terms of people’s opinions. There’s one end where we’re encouraged to show up and be kind, compassionate and supportive of human beings, both in life and in…
WANTING IT ALL YESTERDAY As a young woman I had this stupid mindset. I always wanted everything yesterday. I wasn’t prepared to wait. If I wanted a new car – I wanted it not tomorrow, not next week, but now. If I wanted a new washing machine. Same. Whatever I wanted – I was…
When my brother, sister and I were young adults still living at home with our parents, my brother had this funny thing going on. As young adults we’d all found the pub, nightclub and party scene, and every Friday, Saturday and Sunday we’d all head out individually with our friends to go whoop it up….
MASTERY REQUIRES ITERATION I learnt the word ‘iteration’ from a business coach. I’d never really focused on this word before. I realised how important that word is in business. Iteration means repetition of a process to get successively closer to the solution or end goal. In this post, I want to talk about video iteration. I…
RIDE OUT THE ECONOMY WHEN OTHERS WON’T. Apparently, here in the UK, we’re in the middle of an economic crisis, that may not end any time soon. It didn’t seem that way when I popped out shopping with Richard today. The retail park was full and bustling to the point that there were no car…
LET’S TALK ABOUT SELLING. And how you may suck at it. No offence intended. I’ve sucked at it too. Here’s a nice little list of tips you can take away, think about and implement, to help you become more confident in selling. If you don’t believe in the product or service you sell, no-one else will. You…
DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH FOCUS ON MAKING MONEY IN YOUR BUSINESS? If you don’t think the main purpose of your business is to make money, think again. I don’t care what business you run, who you are, or the audience you serve. If what you’re doing sits under the umbrella of a business – your…
There’s no doubt that a whole lot of thought has to go in to building a successful business. We have to think about our vision (where we want to take our business), what we’d like to be earning, the products or services we want to sell, where we’re going to show up, how we’ll show…
Instagram can be a great platform for your brand if you learn how to make the most of it. But let me start with a word or warning. If you expect to go to Instagram and have big successes quickly, you’ll be disappointed. Like any platform, Instagram takes time, effort, consistency and strategy. The tips…
Five things you can do to become more successful in your business.
One of the ladies in my VIP Group Coaching asked a very valid question: “What strategy do you have when setting your goals for the month? When I think of my goals and write them down, I have no idea if they’re realistic or possible?” We hear a lot about the importance of setting goals…
Introduction One of the key strategies I always encourage my target audience (female small business owners), to have in place is a mailing list strategy. Whilst we see continuous changes to social media platforms, social accounts that are blocked without notice, and marketplace stores like Etsy that are shut down – decimating the small businesses…
how to set up a small business that helps you to maximise your chances of early success.