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 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!)
In my untangling work, I ask my clients questions and I listen to what they say and then ask them more questions – and I sometimes help them choose between options. But is that coaching? Well that’s a good question, which I will try to answer below. So what is coaching? I think that coaching … Continue reading What is coaching?
A while ago, I was inspired to write a blog post about joy, which sparked ideas for 3 more blog posts on a similar subject AND made me realise that there is a theme that has run through everything I’ve written about in the last 10 years or so. The theme of finding joy in … Continue reading How I discovered and started to harness my creativity
I was wrestling with whether to complete and publish an ebook which collects together some of the blog posts I wrote at the start of last year. I asked a freelance group I’m in and the general feeling was that it would be useful as it’s always nice to hear the stories of other freelancers. … Continue reading Who am I to tell my freelance story?