Lessons from 3 years in business This month marks three years since I became a full-time copywriter. And while I had dipped my feet in the deep pool of copywriting before that, May is when I celebrate actually starting my business. The time has flown. And even though...
How applying for business awards can boost your business Like many business owners, I’ve always wondered whether applying for business awards is really worth the effort? Is there any benefit to paying an entry fee and for someone to help write or proofread the...
13 simple actions I’m taking this year At the end of last year, I wrote a post reviewing 2021. You can check it out here. I mentioned a couple of things I was planning to do this year, but I wanted to share a more detailed post on the things I’m doing to set myself up...
Riding the small business roller coaster Following 2020, we all had great hopes for 2021. We’ve had it relatively easy here in South Australia, but as my 2021 year in review shows, that doesn’t mean I escaped the influence of COVID-19, lockdowns and all the...
When I had kids, I didn’t expect that watching them play sport would teach me much. This month, I should have spent eleventy billion hours watching my boys play basketball, cricket and tennis. But then a COVID-19 cluster shut down community sport for two weeks. It was...
If this year has taught us anything, it’s that we can’t plan for everything. If someone had said this time last year we’d be learning and working from home, and cancelling overseas travel for the next few years, we’d have thought they were mad. COVID-19 threw a...
