Building An Outsourced Versus Offshore Team (And Which I’ve Picked)

Building An Outsourced Versus Offshore Team (And Which I've Picked)

Reading Time: 8 minutes   Hey guys, This is the time I’m starting this blog and in truth, I’m not sure how far I’m going to get with it – but I at least on this Sunday wanted to make a start anyway. Pearl Lemon’s team is entirely remote and composed of people all over the world. We’ve got […]

Lessons Learnt From Two Sales Guys Quitting In A Week

Lesson Learnt

Reading Time: 4 minutes   Morning all, It’s been an interesting time in the world of Pearl Lemon. We’re growing quickly and as part of that journey, I hired / am hiring sales people. One of them came from an internal recommendation. Matthew. So we negotiated a salary. He was previously (when living in London) being paid £30,000. I […]

How To Build A Company Like Richard Branson

How-To-Build-A-Company-Like-Richard-Branson

Reading Time: 5 minutes   Morning guys, Here’s the time this morning and I’m still attempting to get back into writing regularly after taking maybe a month’s break now (disaster I know haha!). Anyway, I wanted to discuss where I’m at with the group as a way to try and reignite my writing on a more regular basis. I’m […]

June 3rd – Back At It

June 3rdBack At It

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Here’s the time – Hi all – I’m back at it again after taking a break for a couple of weeks. It feels weird to be back again. If you’re just joining me now – than you’ll discover that I have been writing daily since Jan 1st without taking a break of more than […]

How To Start An Accounting Business

How To Start An Accounting Business

Reading Time: 5 minutes   Morning all, Top right you’ll see the time. A little further down you’ll also see the Pomodoro that is setup for another 12 minutes – which is the time I’m giving myself to write this blog today (start it at least) I’m quite excited right now as I’m getting ready to start my accountancy […]

How To Tell Good Writers From Bad Writers In 2021

Good Writers From Bad Writers

Reading Time: 7 minutes   Morning all, Happy Sunday! To those of you who read this on a Sunday anyway. I was thinking about the subject of writing having just hit #1 in ‘Hot New Releases’ on Amazon under ‘home based business sales: And it got me onto this subject of considering – what is the difference between a […]

Daily Rant – My Struggles With Building A Remote Team

Daily-Rant

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hey guys, I’m going to (from time to time) start writing these daily rants. I’m allowing myself 15 minutes to just moan about stuff in a written format. These won’t contain any keyword research – but rather will function as a way to blow off some steam and then move on with my day. Seems […]

My Struggles In Learning To Trust The Process

My Struggles

Reading Time: 7 minutes   Morning all, . I’m having one of those days again where I’m wondering what the hell I’m doing. I’ve got myself into a place where I’m comparing myself to others, seeing how little I’ve achieved and feeling a little depressed about it I guess. I was saying this to my Head of SEO just […]

10 ways to fake it till you make it

10-ways-to-fake-it-till-you-make-it

Reading Time: 5 minutes   Hi guys, Here’s the time right now – I’m actually on the Central line at Bank headed towards Northolt. I’ll be getting off at North Acton to switch so I can get on the train headed towards Ealing Broadway. And then onwards till I hit my end destination near Heathrow Airport where my folks […]

What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do With Your Life

What To Do With Your Life

Reading Time: 14 minutes   Hi all, Here’s the time – And I had this question come up (and it continues to regularly come up) from people within my team. At Pearl Lemon (my marketing agency) we have a placement programme where we work with young people who are often coming to Pearl Lemon with it being their first […]

How To Become A Prolific Writer In Less Than 12 Months

Become A Prolific Writer

Reading Time: 11 minutes   Morning guys, I’ve finally woken up at a sensible hour and am here, back with my daily habit. Writing. If you’re on this blog for the first time then welcome. I want to talk to you today about my insights on how to become a prolific writer. This is something that I’m working towards […]

Having A Lion’s Mentality And Grit And Growth Mindset

Having A Lion's Mentality

Reading Time: 7 minutes   Hi guys, Today I want to rant on behalf of all of those people who get told they’re doing too much, they’re spread too thin and all of the like. These are challenges or objections I keep coming up against as I speak to people about all that I’m working on. Having a lion’s […]

How To Work Even When You Don’t Feel Like It

How To Work

Reading Time: 7 minutes   Morning all, Here’s the time this morning. I’ve not managed 430am yesterday nor today which is frustrating. It means hours get lost before I’ve even started getting going. Which is why today felt like a suitable time to discuss how to work even when you don’t feel like it – This feels like a […]

How To Deal With Feeling Pressure – My Coping Strategies

Deal With Feeling Pressure

Reading Time: 6 minutes   Morning guys, Yesterday I stopped writing – or at least I said I would. Lol – here I am a day later and back at it. What it is is that I’m beginning to feel the pressure of all of the balls I’m juggling and things are beginning to slip outside of my control. […]

How To Find A Technical Co Founder

Find a Co-founder

Reading Time: 7 minutes   Hi guys, Today I’d like to talk about my journey with trying to find technical co-founders and what a ballache it has been. I’ll tell you about my failures and highs and lows – and hopefully, this can serve as a guide for you as you go on your adventure of trying to find […]

How To Deal With Ungrateful People

Deal With Ungrateful People

Reading Time: 7 minutes   Morning all, Late to bed, late to rise today so starting much later than I’d like to – but hey-ho (is this expression familiar to you) – it’s still 90 minutes before 9 am which is good. I want to talk today about how to deal with ungrateful people by framing it around a […]