Marketing and creativity coach – freelance project manager
So as you’ll have gathered from my previous two posts, I’ve been making some changes to the way I explain what I do. I took inspiration from a talk about vision and mission, and I’ve done some work using the A.I. tool Claude to spot patterns in my testimonials and some of my content. What … Continue reading How can coaching help when you have loads of ideas in your head?
If you’ve read my last post, why do I need a niche for my business, you’ll see that this is something I struggled with for a long time, and that I’ve only recently got clarity on it. So how I did get to this point? Well it’s not a short story or one obvious solution, … Continue reading How do I find a niche for my business?
This is a question I’ve asked myself often, even after two of my podcast guests, Matt Drzymala and Jon Richards, demonstrated so well why having a clear niche works. As someone who likes lots of things, has lots of skills and loves variety in my work, I have struggled for a long time with working … Continue reading Why do I need a niche for my business?
That is the question I’ve been pondering this morning, as I make some other changes to my website. I am heartily sick of social media algorithms not showing my posts to the people I want to reach with them. And while Substack posts do seem to appear high up in searches, there’s the whole ethical … Continue reading Do I need a blog on my business website?
Last year I published 3 conversations I’d had about creativity, as videos (on YouTube) and as audios (on Substack). (You can access all the videos and audios from here.) When I published them I had plans to do more, once I’d got past a busy period of doing talks at networking meetings. I’m now past … Continue reading Creative Conversations – how they came to be and what happens next
In 2024 I did some experiments with making videos. Video is a medium I had done nothing with at all up until then, and I just found the whole idea daunting. I’d previously had the same thought about sharing my photo online – on my website, landing pages and social media – and these days … Continue reading How I experimented with making videos and figured out what worked for me
I’m feeling creatively frustrated at the moment. Because it’s summer holidays for school, it means I’m working shorter weeks so I can spend time with my 7 year old daughter. Which is lovely (when she’s not being bossy!), but it does mean my usual routine goes out of the window. It means that I don’t … Continue reading Is it possible to find creative time over the summer holidays?
Why have I done a few free coaching and ‘untangling’ sessions recently? When training as a coach, one of the things we are encouraged to do is find people to coach who are not on our course. And often we do this for free to start with as we are building our experience. Some of … Continue reading Why (or when to) work for free?
So what am I actually doing on LinkedIn?! I’m sure I’m not alone in asking myself that question sometimes! Here are my thoughts. Well firstly, I like being there – I’ve curated my news feed so it only shows me the people I want to see, and those people are usually talking about being creative, … Continue reading What is the point of being on LinkedIn?
I don’t do a lot with video, so the other day I made a video to explore a few reasons why and what I’m planning to do about that. Very few people saw the video because of social media algorithms and people being busy having a life outside social media, so I thought I’d reshare … Continue reading Why I don’t do much with video and how I plan to change that (slowly!)