How to Start a Home Repairs Business
Reading Time: 5 minutesStarting a home repairs business is not only profitable but also incredibly accessible. Leveraging simple techniques and modern tools, you can hit revenue milestones like £10k per month, even without prior experience or large investments. This guide will walk you through the process, inspired by a proven methodology that has generated £10k in just 30 […]
Starting a Dog Grooming Business from Home
Reading Time: 5 minutesDogs provide companionship, love, and laughter. Their simple presence can brighten up our day and make us feel happier. Grooming is essential for keeping our dog’s coat healthy and looking its best. Many people love their dogs but hate the task of grooming. A dog grooming business can provide convenience to these pet lovers. Start […]
Light it up: How to Start a Candle Business
Reading Time: 5 minutesCandles have been used for centuries as decoration and to create a mood. Today, candle businesses offer a variety of scents and sizes to choose from. Candles can also be personalised with names or designs. Deepak Shukla and our team have been selling candles, and many other businesses offer related services such as candle making, […]
How to Easily Make and Sell Cakes from Your Kitchen Table!
Reading Time: 5 minutesOur team love baking cakes. Deepak Shukla and our team have established our cake business at home. If you want to start your own cake business but are worried, it might be difficult, then great news! It’s not as hard as we thought. With a bit of effort, you can be baking cakes for customers […]
Building Out 1More Rep – The Fitness Bootcamp Business
Reading Time: 6 minutesHey guys, Today, I wanted to talk about building a fitness boot camp franchise with my good friend, Scott Henderson. Here are some of our clients: What I’ll do is talk through several elements of it, beginning with why it’s something that just makes sense for me: I love sports, health & fitness. Right now […]
A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting Your Fitness Business
Reading Time: 5 minutesWith fitness being so popular, companies realise its impact on their bottom line; thus, they are investing more and more in this area. Knowing how to start a fitness business can be a challenging endeavour, but it can also be the most rewarding. Start your fitness business with our step-by-step guide – and build your […]
The Story Of How I Bought My First Business: 7upsports
Reading Time: 6 minutesIn October 2019 I (via Michelle Rubini’s Facebook newsfeed) stumbled into a whole new world of micro-private equity. It turns out that you can actually buy small businesses that are undervalued; improve the business and then scale it. This simple notion of buying businesses absolutely blew my mind. And yet it makes total sense right? […]
The Biggest Business Mistake I Made Through My 20s
Reading Time: 6 minutesHey Guys, I’m 33.5 years old at the time of writing – and in many respects, I’ve been tinkering with ‘business’ since I was 16 years old. There has been Deep Impakt, Deep Impakt Recordings, The CV Guy, Studiobookers, Meet My Tutor (and more) in no particular order. I’ve done and tried a shedload of […]
3 Steps to Starting a Successful Smoothie Business
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you combine the convenience of on-the-go eating with the health benefits of a meal in a cup, you get a smoothie. A smoothie business is one of the businesses that Deepak Shukla and our team established. Continue reading to learn more about how we started our own smoothie business! How to Start a Smoothie […]
The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Consulting Business
Reading Time: 5 minutesAs one of Deepak’s team from the consulting business, this industry is surely exciting. It is a growing field that is attracting more and more people from all around the world. A consulting business is an important part of the economy. It provides many benefits to a potential client, including increased efficiency and better decision-making. […]
Successfully Establishing a Juice Business
Reading Time: 5 minutesJuicing is a great way to get your daily dose of fruits and vegetables without having to prepare a meal. Not only is it a healthy habit, but it can also be fun to mix things up and try new juices. A juicing business, one of the businesses that Deepak Shukla and our team established, […]
What Is Dropshipping?
Reading Time: 4 minutesDropshipping is a way to fill orders that don’t require us to keep a physical inventory of products or take care of their delivery. Instead, we can hire outside companies to do these jobs for us. To illustrate, suppose our dropship UK store has cell phone cases for sale. Then, one of our UK customers […]
Building a No-Code Startup Studio
Reading Time: 3 minutesMorning guys, I’m going to give myself 20 minutes to put this together about my plans to start a ‘No-Code’ startup studio. I’ll begin to walking you through the journey that led me here – I want to build SaaS tools and have been frustrated with finding developers, working with developers – the development times […]
How To Treat Your Podcast Like A Startup
Reading Time: 4 minutesHey, it’s Deepak Shukla here! Thank you for listening to my podcast – down below you will find the notes and key takeaways from today’s podcast so you can implement them in your everyday life! Deepak Shukla · How To Treat Your Podcast Like A Startup – And The One Key Thing It Needs For […]
How To Find Rockstar Employees and People To Grow Your Company
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, The time is 08:02 am so upon balance I’m starting this pretty late in my day. Although I also woke up late as well so ‘hey-ho’. I was discussing with Pearl (our head of PR) how things are going for her and all and what her parents thought about her progression with […]
How To Develop Patience In Business
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, I’m writing this from my Lenovo thinkpad which I’m beginning to enjoy using more and more. It feels good to be getting used to using a Windows machine. I also enjoy the fact it’s so cheap for something relatively powerful (16GB RAM) given I just forked out £3,000+ for a Macbook (which […]
How To Build A Business That Can Run Itself [The Pearl Lemon Way]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, I’ve not blogged for a couple of days this week so I’m going to try and make it all back today. Pearl Lemon will be 4 years old in October and so to a degree even writing this blog seems a little nonsensical arguably because the business still doesn’t run itself yet. […]
How To Build A Public Relations Agency From Scratch
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, We’re in the midst of growing out our PR agency and it’s pretty exciting. I’m not sure if i’ve covered this but I’ll ‘cover it again’. Basically – Pearl Lemon have a background in SEO – which means we’re relatively decent at ranking keywords on Google. This is something that people such […]
Building A Business In Reverse
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hey guys, Morning again! I had a chat with a friend of mine yesterday Axel who said something interesting which deserves some exploration. I spoke to him about my strategy of building out websites and then building operations once the leads start to come in and he said ‘ah you’re kind of doing things […]
Use Other People’s Money To Launch Your Startup
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, I’ve been up since maybe 530. I went for my morning wander and read a couple of blinkists. Some cool takeaways from the summaries I read/finished this morning: Supercorp – You can be a profitable company that also gives back – or rather becomes profitable and helps humanity all at the same […]
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 […]
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 Start, Run, & Grow a Successful Restaurant Business: A Lean Startup Guide by Tim Hoffman
Reading Time: 2 minutesClick this link to purchase from Amazon Click this link to purchase from Audible Deepak Shukla’s Notes On How to Start, Run, & Grow a Successful Restaurant Business: A Lean Startup Guide by Tim Hoffman : Hey guys, I finished reading this book on the 10th of January 2021. Here’s a synopsis of the book […]
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 […]
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 […]
16 Steps To Pratically Implement Succession Planning In Your Business For Founders
Reading Time: 13 minutesMorning 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. So […]
A 9-Step Strategy To Conducting Business and Marketing Experiments
Reading Time: 9 minutes Morning all The time today 🙂 I was inspired to write this blog this morning because I’ve been up since 430am – and part of my time was spent doing a couple of things: What Led Me To Discussing Business And Marketing Experiments First of all – it looks like my YouTube shorts are […]
The Ultimate Guide To Hiring A Marketing Agency
Reading Time: 10 minutesAn Introduction Hi guys, Here’s the time: As someone who runs an agency themselves, I wanted to walk through my nonsense guide on what to look for if you’re looking for an agency partner. [Full disclaimer – if as a consequence I exclude my own agency – that’s ok – that means there’s clearly sh*t […]
How To Hire And Run A Totally Remote Team
Reading Time: 9 minutes Hello all, Here’s the time right now, and in 30 minutes, I’ve got to head out and get over to my running coaching session in Ealing Common. Right now, I’m ‘fire-fighting’ as the lead volume at Pearl Lemon has dropped by 80% over the last 3-5 days, and I’m trying to figure out where […]
The Ultimate Guide to Buying a Business
Reading Time: 9 minutes Intro Hey guys, So the coronavirus has hit us hard in respect of business. And there’s never been a more important time to consider diversifying your income streams. Here’s the time right now – and like many of you if you’re watching – I’ve been rocked by an income hit from Covid-19. We’ve lost […]