What does having a successful business really mean?

What does having a successful business really mean?

This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘what a successful business means to me’. Is there a moment when you finally think you’ve arrived? When all your hard work has paid off and you can sit back with a well deserved drink and say that truly your business is now on...
10 ways you can make your website more trustworthy

10 ways you can make your website more trustworthy

You’ve built your website, published it and now wait for the floods of orders to come through. Only they don’t… There could be a million reasons for this, but one of the reasons might be that people don’t see your website as trustworthy enough...
How I survived the first 5 years of my wife being self-employed

How I survived the first 5 years of my wife being self-employed

By Nick Marsden Sometimes, someone at work will casually ask me what my wife, Magdalena, does for a living. I tell them that she’s self employed and runs baking and chocolate making courses and parties, working mainly from home and operates under the name Cocoa &...
What’s the best website platform for my business?

What’s the best website platform for my business?

This is one of the most commonly asked question, that I hear in various online forums and the one that get’s everyone fired up. The answers, as helpful as some of them are, mainly consist of personal recommendations and the type of website that everyone has....
How to deal with email overload

How to deal with email overload

One of the many things I was looking forward to when I become self-employed, was not having too many e-mails. When I ‘made myself redundant’ (long story for another time…) from my then Managing Director’s job, I immediately rejoiced at the...
How to make sure your new business is successful

How to make sure your new business is successful

The other day I was teaching one of my SEO workshops, which was booked for a group of new business startups. After the session, one of the students asked me a question, which really made me think. She asked: But how do you know that your new business is actually going...