The Key To My Productivity Process
Reading Time: 5 minutesHey guys, So I’ve not done an official word count check yet, but I started this journey on December the 5th – but this was the status update that I wrote. I quickly checked the last 6 blog posts I’ve written, and here is the word count: #35 – 1400 #36 – 1800 #37 – […]
How Waking Up At 430am For 3 Months (and counting) Is Changing My Life
Reading Time: 7 minutesHey Guys, It’s now 6.02 am (Hello!) I’ve been awake now for 1.5 hours pretty much! (How else do you think I find time to write these things :p). As I mentioned, today I wanted to talk to you about how waking up at 430am has changed my life. And not just waking up at […]
How to Make Your Team Ultraproductive
Reading Time: 3 minutes Afternoon all 🙂 Here’s the time right now and I’ve got around 8 minutes to put something useful together. I want to run through how to make your team effective (or rather more effective than ever before). This blog is going to be less filled with prose and more filled with lists of insights […]
Ultimate Productivity Hacks
Reading Time: 12 minutes33 Productivity Hacks at Work What is Productivity? Productivity can be defined on three levels. On an individual level, productivity at work is the time one spends on productive tasks. On an organizational level, it is the output one achieves with a certain amount of input. At a macroeconomic level, productivity is measured by the […]
Get Paid To Learn To Become The World’s Best
Reading Time: 3 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 · Get Paid To Learn To Become The World’s Best Hey, guys, it’s 7:51am on Sunday, Sunday. […]
Why Compounding Is Actually About The Art Of Daily Practice and Ratio Adjustment
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 · Why Compounding Is Actually About The Art Of Daily Practice and Ratio Adjustment What’s up, guys? […]
The Necessity Of Applying Massive Pressure Upon Yourself
Reading Time: 5 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 · The Necessity Of Applying Massive Pressure Upon Yourself To Succeed (and how it’ll help you grow) What’s […]
10x Thinking To Drive Incredible Results
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 · The Power Of Unconventional and 10x Thinking To Drive Incredible Results Changes On A Micro Level Today […]
Why You Should Ignore Accepted Norms
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 · Why You Should Ignore Accepted Norms and Question Conventional Thinking What’s up, guys? The time is […]
How To Scale Your Blog Growth Using The Lean Startup Method
Reading Time: 3 minutes Afternoon all, I was watching Adam Enfroy’s course ‘Blog Growth Machine’ and heard something that really caught my attention when it comes to how to think about your work. In this instance we’re going to take the example of this blog. As you’ve probably noticed if you’re a regular reader – is that I […]
How To Effectively Incentivise Employees To Discover Outliers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, I want to discuss today the power of incentivisation when it comes to driving progress and growth within your team. With the current content writing team, one of the challenges (surprise surprise) is getting the volume of content out that we need/want in time and me trying to find ways to drive […]
The Hidden Power Of Uniformity [An Unusual Productivity Hack]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, The time is 7:10am and I’m at my parents place as I usually am on a Wednesday morning. And I want to talk about the hidden power of uniformity if you are like me and work from several different places. In a way I guess it sounds obvious that if you keep […]
Lessons Learnt From Stepping Away From Day To Day Management
Reading Time: 5 minutes Morning all, I’m back after a ‘week away’ from Pearl Lemon and there’s been (and still will be) – lots of lessons learned about the whole experience. Let’s go through some of the top-line areas – Lead Generation Team The lead-generation side of the business needs better management and direction – this was something […]
How To Manage Conflict In A Team
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, Up at the right time today as now I’m able to sit down and get a blog out. It’s been a challenging couple of days as I’ve been away for (in the end 3 days total) and it’s been mainly with the lead-generation/sales team there have been challenges. And it issues that […]
How To Learn Effectively And Get Big Results Immediately
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all (just about), I wanted to talk about the power of contextually relevant learning and how it’s (in my opinion) the most effective way to learn. Right now – one of the big drives for me – is to learn more about management and leadership. This is the space I’m stepping into right […]
My Plan To Write Novels And How I’m Going To Make It Happen (I Hope)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, It’s 730am on the 7th of October and today I want to walk through my simple plan with you to get back into writing. When I say ‘writing’ I mean ‘writing-writing’ – i.e novels. Not ‘self-help literature’ as such (which I want to write as well) – but storytelling. There’s something magical […]
How To Identify Quick Wins And Action Them Immediately – Part 2
Reading Time: 5 minutes Morning all, It’s 629am on the 6th October and let’s continue with yesterday’s blog about ‘how to identify quick wins and action them’ – I want to give you some further examples of what ‘quick wins’ look like and examples of instances where someone will slow down – Max mentioned he had a standing […]
How To Identify Quick Wins And Action Them Immediately – Part 1
Reading Time: 3 minutesSo it’s 1807 and right now I’m on the London underground headed home. I reckon I’ve got around 15 minutes before I need to get off the tube so I’m going to make this as quick as I can. I went to visit my friend Max Newton in Bethnal Green today and it proved to […]
How To REALLY Build A Second Business (and other ramblings)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, I’m in a bit of a strange place because I’ve been working hard for probably the last 2-3 months to make myself redundant from Pearl Lemon. What I mean by this – is working to remove myself from the day to day runnings of the business. The biggest key has been to […]
How To Put A Process In Place For Relentless Innovation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, I still feel like writing so let’s see how quickly I can bust this out – I’m still yet to work out if this is the best use of my time (writing these morning blogs I mean haha – but f*ck it I enjoy it)… The continual emphasis I place on innovation […]
The Fundamentals Of Building Multiple Businesses Using The Same Model
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, It’s 8.24am / 5th October and today I want to talk about the fundamentals of building multiple businesses (or attempting to) using the same model. It’s taken me 4 years to implement something that in many respects is a straightforward system. Let’s run through it right now – So the first element […]
What To Do When Your Mind’s All Over The Place
Reading Time: 4 minutesMorning all, Today I’m having one of those mornings where I’m wondering to myself if I know what the hell I’m doing in general. With this in mind – I thought I’d write a blog about it all to help you folks by sharing my insights into what I do when ‘your mind is all […]
How To Drive Innovation Within Your Company (From Your Team)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, I’ve got two more days left and then after that, I’m going to go radio silent with the team for 1-week with the exception of one client. I’ll have to deal with those guys on the next go-around, unfortunately. Nonetheless – What I wanted to do this morning is walk you through […]
The Case Study Content Repurposing Funnel
Reading Time: 3 minutesMorning all, I wanted to talk about something practical today that I don’t think people are doing enough. Content repurposing. If you’re in the service based business especially and sell a high-ticket product…then getting robust reviews are super important to that journey. One of the biggest challenges with asking someone for a review – is […]
The Power Of Just In Time Learning
Reading Time: 3 minutes Afternoon guys, Feels like it’s been a couple of days since I wrote a blog, so really this title and writing this out in any shape or form is really about a commitment to my writing. Going more than a few days without writing feels odd and so here I am. What’s happened is […]
How I’m Preparing For My Week Away And Organising A Management Transition
Reading Time: 3 minutesMorning all, Here’s the time again today, And I wanted to run through what the plan is for my ‘week away’ from the day job. First of all – Part of this week away is going to be managing the fact that I’m not allowed to talk to any of my team for the entire […]
The Power Of One To One Intense Training
Reading Time: 5 minutesMorning all, Back at it again and today I want to talk about the power of doing intense one-to-one training with your team. What if you could dramatically improve the skill and output level of your team in one swoop? What if you could dramatically improve the returns your business got from its key people […]
How To Motivate Your Team To Work Harder and Work Faster
Reading Time: 4 minutesMorning all, Back at it and today I want to talk about motivating your team. One of the biggest things managers and founders want from their teams is extra effort and superior performance. So how is it that you can drive such performance with your team outside of what is part of the agreement you […]
How To Manage A Team Effectively
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, I’ve been reading up on how to manage people effectively as I step more into a role that’s management heavy and reliant upon the success of the people around me. It’s interesting making this transition into being much more of a people manager – but then I suppose it does make sense. […]
Getting An Italian Tutor And How That’s Working Out For Me
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all – here’s the time right now: What I wanted to do in today’s blog is really (well as I do in all of them) – write this as a reminder to myself that I really need to get my arse in gear when it comes to actually learning Italian. So during the […]
How To Launch A Podcast Onto Itunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and Everywhere Else In Less Than 10 Minutes
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all! Here’s the time this morning. And this morning I’ve actually already recorded a couple of podcasts. I want to talk about the most deceptively simple podcast approach ever invented I think. So basically, when I go out for my morning walks to get a cup of tea, to learn something new, and […]
Planning To Take One Week Off A Month; Every Month From Pearl Lemon
Reading Time: 5 minutes Morning all, I’m excited and nervous at the same time for the week after next as I’ll be officially taking my first ‘week’ off of work. What I mean by this is that I’m preparing to see what happens when I’m away from the team for an entire week. In a bid to have […]
Quick (and not so quick) Hacks To Build A Freedom Business
Reading Time: 3 minutesMorning all, The time is 8.58 on Tue 12th October and I’m back again with another update on my journey to build a freedom business. Let me walk you through exactly what I mean by that: Right now my focus is on getting Pearl Lemon into a place where it can run entirely independently of […]
The Importance Of Setting Up Robust Review Processes
Reading Time: 3 minutesMorning all, Much later than I normally start when it comes to writing these – but today I’m determined to get at least two done by hook or by crook. It’s been really interesting to review the calls of some of the sales team to understand more about what’s happening on the phones. And to […]
The Impact Of Switching From Mac To Windows For A Month Now
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, Here’s the time this morning and I’m still figuring out how to effectively use my Lenovo Thinkpad. I’m growing more and more fond of this machine as it’s basically as powerful as my old Macbook and only half the price. I’m already half thinking about getting the most powerful Lenovo on the […]
The Tactical Advantage Of Having A Filipino and Indian Base For Your Agency
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, Glad to be back at it this morning. Although I’m actually getting to the point of writing a little later than planned. Nonetheless. It’s 620am and whilst none of the UK/USA team are awake/working (it’s 01.23 am EDT) – it’s 1324 in the Philippines and 1054 in India. This means that by […]
Deciding To Build A Recruitment Agency
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfternoon all, Here’s the time and I wanted to hammer out this blog as best as I can as I’m excited about the fact I’ve decided to formally begin thinking about building a recruitment agency. For a while now – many people have commented upon how unorthodox our recruitment process is and how we’re able […]
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 […]
B2B Sales Growth Versus B2C Sales Growth For Pearl Lemon Leads?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, I had something of a brainwave last night when I was thinking about one of our campaigns for Pearl Lemon Leads. So we’ve got an American realty client who we’re cold calling for at the moment. Now what’s interesting about this campaign is several things: It’s business to consumer In this regard […]
How To Write Effective Job Descriptions [and increase candidate quality overnight]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, I’ve just been reading ‘The Sales Development Playbook’ by Trish Bertuzzi and it’s given me a brainwave that’s going to have applications across all of our recruiting. This (btw) is the beauty of reading as a regular part of your routine. You always end up finding something that can change the way […]
Should You Hire Friends And Family Or Not
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, Today I want to talk about something that began with me involving first my father in my property adventures. In my mind, since entering the world of business – one of the big things I want to do is to use my success to help my family. Here’s practically how that has […]
The Dangers Of Disrupting A Solid Routine
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, Writing my first blog for several days (I think the last one was Wednesday). I’m seriously having withdrawal symptoms because amongst other things (such as trying to give half arsed advice where and when I can) – I use this as a platform to journal and share my thoughts with the world. […]
How To Build A Training Programme For Interns
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, I want to talk about the development of the Pearl Lemon Placement programme and the people it’s producing and the way they are being produced. In terms of the long-term development of it’s people – Pearl Lemon has a training programme that it takes all of its young people on. The young […]
How To Embrace The Power Of Serendipity
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, I’ve ‘randomly’ discovered Tom Peters and Lina Kaplan this morning. In the same way I discovered the books ‘Drawing on the right side of the brain’ and ‘The origin of consciousness….breakdown of the bicameral mind’ (books I’m staring at on my shelf right now). Book and literature I would ordinarily never come […]
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. […]
Run Your Team Like Army Cadets To Get The Best Results
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, I had an interesting turn of events this week when I was approached by two of my sales team – being told that basically ‘Deepak you’re too soft’. It’s been an interesting turn of events in respect of how to run an effective sales team. I have had a troop of sales […]
How To Be An Effective Leader Of A Team
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, Here’s the time this morning and yet again I’m ‘off to the races’ when it comes to starting my day. I got this amazing (and unexpected message) from Chill – one of our team yesterday. Didn’t see it coming. It’s made me reflect upon some of the important qualities that I see […]
Unorthodox Productivity Hacks
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, It’s a little bit of a strange one this morning in terms of what I’m working on so I thought I’d take the time to share some of this with you. Basically, The last 24 hours have been really interesting from a productivity and focus standpoint – You might have read from […]
Focusmate Review – a growing accountability movement
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, Later start today as I’m back from ‘holidays’ i.e the long weekend. I got back onto Focusmate today and thought I’d take the time to write up a review of it now that I’m 18 sessions into using it: First of all I should say that this won’t be a complete review […]
The Power Of The 20 minute Pomodoro Technique
Reading Time: 5 minutesMorning all, Didn’t quite hit my 430am this morning (ended up getting out of bed at 515am) – but it’s challenging when you’ve got into bed late, have a partner who comes to bed a 2.20 am and then a cat that runs up and down your small flat half the night. But – it […]
How To Write Even When You Don’t Feel Like It
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all! I’m going to try something very different today. I started writing a blog post before and stopped only 10% of the way through because well – it’s the same title as this blog post. I didn’t feel like writing lol. Even the thought of putting in my standard 20 minutes felt challenging. […]
Building My Investments; Brick By Brick
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, I just completed on my 6th property this week after it taking absolutely ages to come through (it’s been ongoing for months). I’m trying to complete on two more with a sourcing company I work with, and then that’ll be the end of my relationship with them. Yesterday I also had a […]
Trying To Build Organization Amongst The Chaos
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hi guys, Been a couple of days since I’ve written a blog – and it feels like so much is happening internally. It’s complete chaos for sure. Let me try and break it down for you. So building my sales team continues to be super challenging. I’ve got a combination of people that are […]
Exploring My SEO Breakthroughs Of The Last Month
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, Here’s the time, and I’m back from my holidays in Italy and it’s really nice to be back to work after being away. What I want to do today is to explore the different ‘breakthroughs’ I’ve been having when it comes to SEO so I can explore the differences that will make […]
How to get through relentless failure
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, I’m back again with another blog for the morning – and this time I’m back again to talk about ‘relentless failure’. It’s extremely challenging times for my whole agency because seemingly I’m always finding issues with our work – things we could be doing better and suggestions for how we can do […]
How To Learn How To Take Time Off From Work
Reading Time: 5 minutes Morning all, I’ve been up since 430am even though I’m away on Italy and I’m feeling much much better now that I’m getting up at the time that I enjoy getting up. I’ve just been reading a little, made an Americano and have been checking our keyword results in our keyword tracking tool Nightwatch. […]
Discovering Hidden Keywords In Less Than 5 Minutes
Reading Time: 5 minutesAfternoon all! Not sure how effective this blog is going to be because I’m violating all the rules I normally live by when I produce this content. It’s the afternoon and I don’t have the ticking sound and I’m listening to Wretch 32 in the background instead of white noise lol: But who cares – […]
How To Make The Most Out Of Every Crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, 5.25 am here and I’m sitting at Stansted Airport – I’ve got until 5.50 for the gate to be announced and at that point, I’ll make a move. I’m sitting with my one-shot of espresso flat-white latte and thought I’d put together a blog post while I wait. There’s a brilliant quote […]
Building A Public Relations and Content Team In Kampala, Uganda
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, I sent my buddy Luc a video yesterday saying that I’m building a team in Uganda. We used to laugh a couple of years back when Luc was considering upping and moving his family to Kampala in Uganda. It was amusing to think that someone living in London would uproot his family […]
How I’ve Built My Lead Generation Team
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, I’m headed off to Italy in a couple of days and wanted to take the opportunity to reflect upon the team that has come together. When I say team – there are now two people that have arisen amongst the troops that I think are capable of producing for the agency. This […]
The End Of My SEO Training
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all! It was a sad moment this morning when I realised I’ve signed up for multiple sessions with some SEO experts but my days as a practitioner are no longer the best way to serve the business. I was due to talk to Arvind this morning and had missed our last two sessions…and […]
Brainstorming – My Plans To Grow Serpwizz
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all! I want to continue with the brainstorming I left off with at the end of last week. I’m seeing the value of doing this for every brand of Pearl Lemon so that we can push them further forward. These blogs serve as an instruction manual for growth for each of the brands/businesses […]
The Ultimate Guide To Real Estate Cold Calling: Part 1
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning guys, At one of my agencies – Pearl Lemon Leads – we’ve just begun a campaign for a Chicago-based realtor. Our role is to ultimately cold call homeowners for them and book appointments. The point person – their lead broker is a very switched-on guy. Mostly – when we’re given lead-generation campaigns to […]
The Power Of Applied Pressure
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, Starting much later than normal again today. It’s clear to see the impact that the events of the last few weeks have had on my health. The last few weeks is trying to sort out our lead-generation team to get them as quickly as possible to the standard that’s required to be […]
Plotting Out The Next Year For Pearl Lemon
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning guys, Here’s the time today: I thought I’d use this blog as an opportunity to do some planning or ‘brain dumping’ as these blogs end up being a lot of the time – about my next steps with Pearl Lemon. So – We’ve rolled out Pearl Lemon PR into a separate website (this […]
A Lesson in Brainstorming For My SaaS Software [Send Koala]
Reading Time: 3 minutesMorning all, Here’s the time and today I want to talk about something I’ve not yet written a blog about in detail – My plans to grow to Send Koala. The value for those of you reading this I hope – is to see how to ‘brainstorm’ in real-time and effectively do all of this: […]
A Guide To Uncommonly Quick Decision Making
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all, I don’t remember the last time I wrote two blogs in one day – so feeling adventurous this morning. Around 30 minutes ago I got this message from a new Twitter content creator I’ve started working with. I’ve been impressed with his approach and enthusiasm and he seemed to be honest in […]
Actions and Decisions That Repeat Themselves Over The Years
Reading Time: 3 minutesMorning all! Here’s the old countdown timer today. Didn’t quite start at 5.50am today – because I had an unproductive morning being on Whatsapp! I want to make a renewed commitment to myself to NOT be on Whatsapp until 7am every day. There’s no need for me to be on before that time – and […]
How To Learn Something New And Learn It Quickly
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning all! It feels nice to see 5.50 am on the clock as I write this! Been a good long while since I was able to actually start writing before 6 am – that tells me that I need to up my game and make sure that I’m actually up on time. What tends […]
The UK’s Need for Effective Cold Callers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, Back at it again and today I’m reflective of the challenges my team is facing with cold calling. It’s clearly an incredibly difficult skill to find in people. For the last several months I’ve been on the hunt to find people who are effective on the phone and can basically call anyone, […]
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 […]
The Ultimate Guide To Conversation Intelligence
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning guys, Up and at it again if you read my blogs! And getting back into doing some keyword research based around subjects that I’m pretty interested in. So I did some keyword research based upon a sales platform calls ‘Gong.io’ – it had a list of the ‘best sales blogs’ – but I […]
36 Ways To Address Your Anxiety On Reddit
Reading Time: 4 minutes Morning guys, Here’s the time again this morning, And if you read my blogs you’ll know right now that I’m suffering from a decent amount of anxiety because I’m not yet happy with the performance of my lead generation team. We’re not delivering at the levels we should be and so it’s a case […]
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 […]
My Experiement In Trying To Hire Actors To Grow My Sales Team
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, I wanted to at least start this whilst I am still feeling inspired by it. So several years ago I remember meeting a friend of mine in a Regus coworking space and we were swapping notes on business growth. He ran a luxury real estate business (still might do – we’ve not […]
Why I’m Switching From Mac To Windows For A Week
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m writing this from my Lenovo Thinkpad. Adrian one of my sales guys said his laptop had already slowed down which surprised me. This surprised me because I BOUGHT him his laptop less than one month ago. And he’s already saying it’s slowed down. He’s got a Lenovo Thinkpad like me. The spec all […]
Inviting Clients To Watch You Live Cold Call For Them
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning guys, Got an amazing hangover/headache from drinking and lack of sleep. Despite my attempts to stay in bed – it doesn’t really work well and I think I’ll just need to catch up tomorrow instead. Anyway – I had a bit of a ‘proud’ moment yesterday when it came to the next step […]
The Psychology Of Hiring A Cold Caller
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, Here’s the time It’s been an interesting couple of weeks talking to caller after caller in my search for ‘warriors’. When I say warriors I mean outstanding cold callers. And some things have become apparent to me during this process – It’s a wild ride trying to build a cold calling team […]
The Ultimate Guide To Real Estate Cold Calling: Part 2
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, Back again today to continue our foray into the world of real estate cold calling – How to work with a script So when you’re putting together a script it’s important to define what your end goal with this script is. In the case of what my team does – it’s technically […]
It’s Monday – Time To Do It All Over Again
Reading Time: 3 minutesMorning all, Back here again for the Monday morning shift. It’s crazy how time (I know it’s a cliche) does seem to fly. The days turn into weeks, the weeks into months, etc, etc. Here I am now trying to figure out how to build: An accounting company and a web development company whilst trying […]
How To Build A Sales Team From Scratch Overnight
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey guys, Another day in my world of trying to build a high-performance sales team. The chaos continues when it comes to sorting out those who can really ‘make it happen’ on the phones. What we’re trying to do at Pearl Lemon Leads is complex. We have multiple campaigns across multiple countries and we’re […]
The Chaos That Comes With Growth And How To Reflect Upon It
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, Feels good to just be ‘brain dumping’ again haha. So we’re still in the ‘chaos’ phase when it comes to building Pearl Lemon Leads. We’ve onboarded a load of clients and we’re definitely headed in the right direction on that front – And correspondingly we’re beginning to identify people that I hope […]
Commission Only Sales People Vs Full Timer’s?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hey guys, Pearl Lemon has reached an interesting juncture in it’s journey. Now several years into it – I’ve got part time, full-time and commission only sales people all within Pearl Lemon. Part-timers are people like Andrew who is only calling for 2 hours per day. Mika whose calling for 4-6 hours per day. […]
My Approach To ‘Learn’ Faster Than The Other Guys
Reading Time: 5 minutes Morning all, Here’s the time: I wanted to discuss this morning my approach to learning with the hope you might be able to ‘nick’ things from it – Let’s get into it – So – Every Friday I have a weekly accountability/coaching call with Valentina Kbedi – On that call, we’ll set ‘targets’ for […]
From My Mum’s House And Broke To Having PWC, Uber, Pizza Express, Bosch and Guiness Approach Us
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hi all, It’s Saturday so this is normally the day that I take a little bit of time to reflect upon my progress and where we’re at with the business. We’re not making the money that I want just yet – but that’s because I’m having to rapidly grow and upskill the team on […]
Am I Focussing On The Right Problem?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hey guys, Waking up this morning was a struggle – I guess I’m not sleeping as well as I would like. Ah well – we’ll see what tomorrow brings. Anyway, I’m reading ‘Tribe of Mentors’ at the moment by Tim Ferriss and someone in their said that a favourite quote of theirs that they’d […]
What 20-60 Minutes Of Learning Per Day Can Do For Your Brain
Reading Time: 3 minutes Morning all, Back with another 20 minute daily dose. I’ve just got back from my morning walk – which today went for around 70 minutes. I managed to get through 1 hour 03 minutes of Tim Ferris’s book ‘Tribe of Mentors’ (listening at 2.10x speed). I made some notes on some of the key […]
My 20 Minute Approach To Writing
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hi guys, Here’s the time right now: I can feel the force coming back! Basically, I had a chat with Chris Sowers yesterday my writing coach talked about my struggles with writing regularly of late. I went from a 4-month regular ‘write’ to then falling off the wagon totally. And right now I want […]
How To Tell Good Writers From Bad Writers In 2021
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 […]
My Struggles In Learning To Trust The Process
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 […]
How A 30 Day Writing Challenge Can Change Your Life (Like it’s changing mine)
Reading Time: 13 minutes Afternoon guys, Today marks the 108th day that I’ve been writing relatively consistently (i.e every day). And I wanted to discuss how writing for 30 days in a row is something that could potentially have profound effects upon your life, success and mental wellbeing. Once I’ve gone through that I’ll give you a plan […]
How To Change Your Habits And Then Change Your Life
Reading Time: 8 minutes Morning all, I was up at my usual time this morning (430am) so it feels great to get a jump on the day and look at something that you’ll find me often talking about as being critical to all of our success. This is the power of habits – i.e how you spend your […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 minutesMorning 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 for […]
How to Cope With Emotional Distance in a Relationship?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Morning all, I wanted to start this blog at least before I finish up my blogging for the day. I’ve definitely been feeling emotional distance from my partner for several weeks now and thought it would be a good opportunity to analyse it with you. One of the challenges of the kind of person […]
How to Wake Up Early and Not Be Miserable?
Reading Time: 10 minutes Hey guys, The time is 07.09am and I think it’s quite late. But then… It is Saturday morning and it may be the case that most people on a Saturday at this time of the day are asleep. And as yesterday I was training my team on time management – one of the things […]
Where Does Inspiration Come From?
Reading Time: 9 minutes Hi all, Wow – it’s been several days since I got back to writing. It felt weird not writing – and now it feels weird writing at 17.15. But – I’ve got my Pomodoro running: And off to the races I go. What I’m doing literally right now got me thinking also – Where […]
The Monotony of Life and Its Boring Routines
Reading Time: 7 minutesMorning all, Wow! 4th March… I started on this journey on the 1st of Jan which means I’ve been going now for 65 days more or less. No wonder I feel like the journey is monotonous as hell. And it brought me to a wider challenge of life (especially during lockdown) that I think we […]
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 […]
How I Overcame Cripping Self Doubt In Life And My Relationships
Reading Time: 9 minutes Hi guys, The time is: I had a chat with one of my team yesterday (I’ll not name him/her to protect their identity given the sensitive nature of this topic). But in their tone of voice, in their questions – I heard myself, and some things I struggled with so much of my adult […]
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 […]
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 […]
14 Ways Coping With Depression in Lockdown
Reading Time: 7 minutes Morning all, We’re now almost a full year into living in this new world that we’re in – and I wanted to talk to you about ‘getting through the grind’ of lockdown – Or rather at least how I’m coping with it so that it can help with your own journey as well. Keeping […]
How To Close Sales Like Clockwork By Using Killer Tonality
Reading Time: 8 minutesHi guys, Starting 15 minutes later than planned today but that’s much better than 2 hours too late yesterday. Strawberry my partner has always spoken about this – and so it felt appropriate to go through one of the biggest components of how to become a more effective sales professional. And it’s by working on […]
15 Ways In Which I’m Coping With Failure And How You Can Too
Reading Time: 9 minutesMorning all, If you were to look back at my most recent blogs you’ll see that I’ve ‘fell off’ a little bit. From the moment I said that I was not completing blogs on the same day up until the last couple of days – I actually stopped writing. That pained me at the time. […]
The Passive Income Myth & My Experiences of It
Reading Time: 7 minutes Morning all, I’ve found myself in a bit of a funk because I’m finishing blogs over two days later instead of one – so I’m confining this write-up to just 15 minutes: So I got to thinking of how ‘in reality, nothing is what it seems – This takes a couple of days instead […]
The Ultimate Guide To Running Effective Meetings
Reading Time: 12 minutesHey guys, Here’s today’s time. On Thursday of last week, I was discussing with my SEO team my keyword strategy for these blogs that I write on a daily basis. And it got me thinking about the weekly meetings I have in general – and their effectiveness. So surprise surprise here I am – With […]
The Ultimate Guide To “Stream Of Consciousness Writing”
Reading Time: 10 minutesHey all, So I was looking around to try and understand what type of writing style I deploy when I produce my content. And as you can see from the title…I found it :p In this blog then, I’d like to walk through my insights and guidance on how to effectively employ this style of […]
How To Build Happy Habits
Reading Time: 9 minutesHi guys, Today’s a little random in that I feel like writing more than I ordinarily do – and I’ve got around 10 minutes before my 1030am ‘turn on’ to the rest of the world. So I’m taking this moment to get some words out in relation to this ‘feeling’…I’m ‘feeling’. I had the option […]
The Massive Impact Of Power Hours On Your Life’s Success
Reading Time: 8 minutesRight, So today is going to be a very short one – I’ve got to leave my house in probably around 30 minutes as I’m having laser eye surgery today. This is why today’s topic is a powerful one. I’m going to attempt to have a ‘power 30 minutes’ – and see how much of […]
27 Training Ideas To Start Closing 5-Figure Deals
Reading Time: 12 minutes Hi all, Here’s the time today. Yup ridiculously late start. This morning I woke up late (9.30….5 hours late!) and jumped immediately onto a sales call with my head of business development Ion. That got me thinking about the nature of sales training in general as it’s something that’s a big part of Ion’s […]
Hofstadter’s Law And Why It’s Important In Business
Reading Time: 8 minutesMorning all, Proud moment for me – I’ve been blogging for a month consistently now. I don’t remember a time where I’ve managed to do this each day and really enjoy the process of writing each morning and not feel encumbered by the process as if it takes something from me. I definitely feel like […]
The 14 Rules To Becoming A Master At Improvisation In Business
Reading Time: 11 minutes Morning all – Later start today: But I recorded two videos for my Youtube channel as well as launched 2 new ads for Facebook (that was actually what I recorded). I improvised my morning (to a degree). Since I started this ‘morning routine journey’ Jan 1st, the routine is broadly always changing within more […]
How To Just Keep Going When Your Motivation Dips
Reading Time: 9 minutesMorning all, 3 hours 17 minutes later than when I’m normally out of bed and working. 3 hours 17 minutes to somehow make up and find the time to push out everything that I want to – which is as follows: This blog (naturally) 5 Quora answers 4 videos All before 1030am – which is […]
The Misunderstood Truth About Quality Over Quantity [And How To Apply It]
Reading Time: 10 minutesMorning all, Up on time today and ready to write – (although given I wake up at 430 it’s still taking too long to get sat down and read to start hammering away) Anyway, I was just doing a count of YouTube videos that I have that are yet to go live – and the […]
Why Consistency Is The Ultimate Key To Success [and how to use it]
Reading Time: 9 minutesMorning all, Today marks day 26th of my writing – It’s definitely not the 5am time (or before) I’m ideally writing by – but it got me thinking about consistency in general. In parallel I’m watching some eCommerce business launch courses and one of the things that the main dude Franklin Hathchett says is that […]
How To Deal With Feeling Overwhelmed In Work And In Life
Reading Time: 9 minutes Hi guys, It seemed pertinent to write a guide on how to deal with feeling overwhelmed at work and in life right now because that’s literally what I’m feeling at the moment. And I wanted to share with you my ‘real world’ i.e coping mechanisms I’m instilling whilst I type in the hope […]
How Can Investors Receive Compounding Returns?
Reading Time: 9 minutesHey guys, It took me longer than normal to get set up today. I’m beginning to question this second screen and the overall setup I’ve got. Not sure if it’s taking me more time to get set up than is worth it. However – when thinking of this and the reasons why I have this […]
Do You Have The Psychology Of A Competitive Person?
Reading Time: 6 minutesAfternoon all, Uncharacteristically late start for me today. I’ve finally gone back home to Fulham so I’m just readjusting my schedule and trying to get back into the swing of things here. Today was a 1030am not 430am start haha – so I’ve definitely got a ton of catching up today. Which leads me onto […]
The Power of Now Summary by Eckhart Tolle
Reading Time: 7 minutesHi guys, It’s a late one today but let’s see what I’m able to get done. So I’m actually listening to a summary of the ‘Power of Now’ itself – and it’s actually inspired me to write this blog post. There’s an irony to this as the audiobook ultimately talks about the present moment being […]
Why I Choose Progress Over Perfection & How I Implement It?
Reading Time: 7 minutesHullo all, Here’s the time again: I’m writing a 2nd blog for the day again today – but I’m following my impulses and running with it. I haven’t recorded any videos today but oh well – I feel like writing more – which leads me onto this point: _______________ I recently read a book called […]
How I Wrote 21,000 Words in My Spare Time in 9 Days?
Reading Time: 8 minutesHey guys, The time again: I was asked by a new internet friend of mine about my content strategy. Or the methodology / ‘step-by-step’ guide for writing. How is it that in the year of 2020 I managed to write over 300,000 words, run my marketing agency and do a bunch of other random things […]
Why I Devote 4:30 AM to 10:30 AM Mon-Friday To Learning + Reading?
Reading Time: 7 minutesSo, right now the time is: I’m not sure how long this post will end up being as I’ve just spent a solid hour or so continuing a different blog post about my hair transplant lol. But I felt motivated to write this up quickly because it outlines why exactly I do what I do. […]
Why I Don’t Intend on Checking My Email More Than 2x a Day?
Reading Time: 6 minutesFirst day back at work today. New year, new Covid and all. Last year I set out on a mission to not check my email before 11 am each day. I’d first read about this idea of ‘batching’ from Tim Ferriss before I think – in the 4-hour work-week, several years ago. I thought it […]
Max Newton Business Developer (Influencer Spotlight)
Reading Time: 4 minutesAfternoon guys, Today mark’s my 4th session with Max Newton getting sales coaching from him: Here’s us on our final call discussing some of the areas that I’m currently struggling with. I got to know Max around 5 of 6 months ago through a mutual client of ours: Max was their sales consultant and we […]
The Ghetto Netflix Productivity Hack I’m Attemping Because of Atomic Habits
Reading Time: 3 minutesHey guys, So I’m waiting for someone to show up for a call and thought I’d take the time to share with you this interesting hack I’m now going to use with my love; Netflix. Full disclaimer this idea is taken from James Clear – Atomic Habits – amazing, amazing book – you absolutely must […]
Craig Campbell Review
Reading Time: 4 minutesMorning all, In around 20 minutes I’m meant to be leaving to head to the airport to board a flight going to Istanbul. I’m about to get a hair transplant from the same place that Craig had it done. Longevita Incidentally, I WhatsApped Craig after a while of going radio silent – for maybe 2 […]
Paul Lovell Review
Reading Time: 5 minutesToday’s time – starting much, much later than usual – but building upon something that I’ve wanted to do for a little while now. Give praise to some of the people that have helped me. Paul Lovell is someone I got to know through the “SEO Circuit”. I just checked my email history and here’s […]
How To Build Your Creative Problem Solving Faculties
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe time of writing! (This is becoming a habit now ;P) Some Compliments So – I was given two compliments this weekend that has inspired this blog post which are as follows: There’s a thread between the two – And I wanted to shed some light upon it. ‘Thinking outside of the box’ and ‘having […]
How Negative Incentives Can Lead to a Path of Growth?
Reading Time: 4 minutesI think I’ve already written about this before but I want to drill down upon it much further. It’s currently 1401, and in 14 minutes, I’ve got Chris (my writing coach) getting onto a call with me: So that means I’ve got 14 minutes to make sure he doesn’t get the $50 coming to him […]
Insights on How I Get Shit Done
Reading Time: 6 minutesRight, It’s that time again: My first call of the day starts at 8am and now that Lockdown in the UK has ensued – the only journey I made outside was to grab a cup of tea from Gregg’s Check me out – I even managed to look in the camera when I shot this […]
Chronicling My Journey on Medium With Chris Sowers
Reading Time: 4 minutesGood morning all, (or at least for me). As Chris advised – he said if I feel like journaling right now – then that is exactly what I should be doing and nothing else. The most important thing for the moment is that I simply write and see what comes of it. And today I […]
Hiring a 6-Strong Sales Team
Reading Time: 6 minutesI was pinching myself this morning because it’s weird as hell to have a sales team consisting of….6 people? INBOUND TEAM Lydia (temporarily involved in sales for 3-months to learn more about this side of the business so she can eventually become sales support) Daniel (USA university student – around for at least the next […]
How to Use Pressure to Accelerate and Fuel Your Growth
Reading Time: 5 minutesRight. The time is: I’ve got a sales coaching call starting at 7am (I’ve now pushed it till 710am to get the most I can from writing this blog post). The reasons for making sure I get hopefully the whole thing done or at least a significant chunk of it done is to ensure I […]
Thoughts on PR and Reputation Management
Reading Time: 6 minutesHi guys, I thought I’d walk you through my PR plans for 2020, And in general my approach and thoughts to brand building. For me, I think brand recognition and the public shaping of this is a huge differentiator right now. Whether you’re planning to build an SEO agency in London like me or otherwise […]
Coping With Writing Inertia
Reading Time: 7 minutesSo right now I’m sitting in McDonald’s finding every reason under the sun to not write content – on a daily basis like I intended. I think the last time that I wrote any content might have been on Thursday or Friday last week and since then I’ve not written anything. I’m fully into the […]
How to Say No to Requests, Ideas, Proposals & More?
Reading Time: 6 minutes2 Hour Walks Hey guys I went for a 2-hour walk this morning which I used to part read, part think and take notes. I’m keeping up this walking thing and what an amazing gift it really is. I have an amazing team of people around me executing both high-level as well as more process-driven […]
Why I Deleted All My Social Media Apps?
Reading Time: 8 minutesMorning all – 2 days since my last blog and I’ve been up since 415am (Jenny woke me up again) and this is the time now: So far this morning I’ve just come back from my morning exercise routine @7am (today a 30-minute run/4.14 per km followed by 200 reps). Whilst before that, I was […]
The Ultimate Guide on How to Be More Productive
Reading Time: 18 minutesHey, guys, it’s day 39 and here is the time: I’m going to attempt to write this whole blog post in 45 minutes That’s this app: You can grab it for free from the Mac App store I expect. I’d go and grab it – but as you can see – I’m on a clock. […]
The Ultimate Guide to Being Consistent: 16 Tips
Reading Time: 12 minutesHey guys, How’s it going? Day 37 is pretty awesome. It’s becoming more difficult of late to make sure that I actually get these blogs written. What with the coronavirus it feels like the world has been turned upside down and everyone’s routines have gone somewhat out of the window. That’s why (as it’s 9.58am) […]
Starting My Ultimate Guide Series, 1 Podcast Per Day & Random Thoughts
Reading Time: 5 minutesHey guys, Back at it again with a new blog, And I had a brainwave this morning which kind of blows up the true intentions of the blogs I’ve been writing to date, but I’ve found a happy medium if you will. I’m going to bounce between ‘journalling’ which is to a degree what these […]
How to Deal With Business Conflict?
Reading Time: 5 minutesHey guys, It’s day 23, and the time is: Really late start to this blog. I actually woke up at around 630am. The whole week, I’ve been going to bed late (i.e 1030pm more or less) and have been running on less sleep than I would like. Yesterday was no different, but with Saturday upon […]
How to Become a TEDx Speaker?
Reading Time: 16 minutesIn this blog post, I’m going to take you through the EXACT process I underwent that led me to become a TEDx speaker. First of all, let’s discuss: What TED And TEDx Talks Are For those of you who aren’t familiar with Ted – it’s a not-for-profit organization that leads with the idea of sharing […]