How To Run a Remote and Distributed Sales Team Over Several Continents
Reading Time: 9 minutes Morning all, It’s Easter weekend and unsurprisingly I’m sat down at my desk journaling and wanted to share with you what’s on my mind. I thought I’d come back to this one because I’m attempting AGAIN to build a sales team consisting of new people. If you’ve followed my journey throughout my blogs then you’ll […]
What Most People Don’t Realise With Building Transferable Skills
Reading Time: 7 minutes Morning all, I was having a conversation with my friend Amir yesterday that got me thinking about the power of transferable skills and how critical they have been to my growth. So, in marketing, there’s this concept of the ‘T-Shaped’ marketer. i.e being generally good at marketing, but then having one specific area where […]
How To Manage People Older Than You
Reading Time: 5 minutes Morning all, I wanted to at least get started with this blog today to discuss a change in my business over the last 2 months that has changed the nature of my work. Up until 2 months ago – the oldest person in my business was our Managing Director and he’s maybe 1-2 years […]
How To Start A Property Business: The Pearl Lemon Properties Story
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey guys, I thought I’d start with the Pearl Lemon Properties story as an insight into how I’m intending to launch a property business. So I first had the idea of creating a property website around a year ago – You’ll see here from the domain registration date: I first registered the website back […]
Thoughts On Running More Than One Business
Reading Time: 8 minutes Morning all, A later start to my morning. It’s been a full-on couple of days. In the last week, there’s already been lots of turbulence when it comes to trying to become more effective at the day-to-day running of Pearl Lemon. I’m definitely not where I ‘want to be’ in terms of it being […]
How To Deal With Setbacks
Reading Time: 8 minutes Hey guys, I don’t remember the last time I wrote a blog at this time of the day, but I’ve not written anything for a couple of days and I feel out of sorts. The reason I’ve not written anything also is what I’m going to discuss with you today. It’s been a difficult […]
The Power of Long-Term Thinking in Life and Business
Reading Time: 6 minutes Morning all, I wanted to discuss something that has come up in conversations with my good friend Amir (of Elevano) over the past couple of days – and I’m seeing it repeated in many other aspects of my life This is the power of thinking long-term is something that I’m really only beginning to […]
How To Launch A SaaS Product [My Lessons]
Reading Time: 6 minutes Morning all, This is going to be the third blog I’m doing some work on – in the same morning! I didn’t anticipate that happening – but I feel like writing so here we go: I’m in the process of trying to launch yet another SaaS product and I want to talk about my […]
My Journey Into Building Organizational Resilience
Reading Time: 6 minutes Morning guys, Today’s an important day as it marks the 2nd day of my journey of trying to build organizational resilience within Pearl Lemon. It’s my first week ever where I’m trying to (in a modified manner) – step out of day to day runnings of Pearl Lemon. It’s as scary as hell. But […]
Coping With Small Business Owner Anxiety
Reading Time: 7 minutes Morning all, Today’s going to serve as something of a rant because I’m having one of the most stressful months of my life. Agency life, when you’ve got an inexperienced team who are doing their best but are falling short because of silly mistakes is extremely challenging. And it’s often the struggle that a […]
My Journey to Build a Business That Runs Itself
Reading Time: 8 minutes Morning all, I’m excited to write this blog because this is absolutely what’s top of mind for me at the moment. My Transition Into Becoming Independent Of The Business Taking Pearl Lemon to the next level in terms of being a business. I’m in the process of figuring out how I can make the […]
My Journey to Become a 7-Figure Copywriter
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning guys, Here’s the time. I struggled a little to figure out what to write about this morning. I’m slowly beginning to debate the power of thinking ahead when it comes to deciding what to write these mornings. Let’s see what tomorrow brings. Furthermore, I’m not getting the reward from Google I was hoping […]
How To Cope With Being Anxious And Angry
Reading Time: 5 minutes Hey guys, Here’s the time right now: I kind of just wanted to make a start on this before it escapes my mind. If you’ve ever experienced random bouts of anxiety-like the one I’m having now…. Then this is the blog post for you. I wanted to get this ‘off my chest’ before I […]
16 Steps To Pratically Implement Succession Planning In Your Business For Founders
Reading Time: 13 minutes Morning all, I had a conversation with Max Newton yesterday in brief that’s been spurred on by my feelings of being tired of my agency. And so Max mentioned ‘we need to do some succession planning’ and it struck me that this was probably what I’ve been doing unwittingly since the beginning of January. […]
How To Deal With Incompetent People
Reading Time: 10 minutes Morning guys, Very late start to the day today, And on the basis of some challenges I’ve had within my own team – it feels like this is a totally appropriate topic to focus upon – When you’re dealing with incompetent people, employees, colleagues, partners, co-workers – knowing how to manage that process is […]
10 Insights on Training to Deal With Difficult People
Reading Time: 8 minutes Morning all, Here are today’s time and I’ve been up since 430am. My day yesterday was spent dealing with a difficult person. It was a merry-go-round of issues that didn’t really seem to fix itself as neatly as I wished – despite my best efforts. And if you’ve landed upon this blog – maybe […]