There’s a common misconception amongst entrepreneurs and business owners that the only way to be visible is to be on social media.
When we talk about showing up everyday and overcoming visibility fears, it’s often said in the context of being on social media.
But what if you could be visible every single day without actually being visible and without using social media at all?
Read MoreAffirmations are a powerful tool to help you create positive, empowering beliefs that enable you to achieve what you desire.
When you repeat positive affirmations, you change the record on repeat in your mind.
We’re so used to repeating the same phrases to ourselves but often these thoughts or beliefs are what we’ve learned from those around us: our parents, partners, friends.
Here are 8 of my favourite affirmations for abundance and wealth:
Read MoreWhen I first became a coach, I forced myself to do elaborate, 2–3 hour morning routines involving journaling, meditating, yoga, visualisation and a whole host of other mindset tools.
This was great for a while but I soon realised I was spending more time prepping for the day than actually living it. I also found it hard to be consistent with such a jam packed ritual.
I even forced myself to become part of the 5am club which didn’t last long when I finally accepted the fact I’m not - and never will be - a morning person.
Now, I like to keep things simple. The first 20 minutes of the day are for me. I don’t check my phone, I don’t scroll on socials, I try not to talk to anyone.
Read MoreI find it quite amusing that the day after I got the idea for a blog post about getting out of a funk, I wake up in a funk myself.
When I talk about being in a funk, I mean:
Feeling agitated or irritated
Feeling frustrated or overwhelmed
Struggling to make even the simplest decisions
Having a lack of direction or focus
Losing interest in anything and everything
Not knowing what to do with yourself
And the longer we’re in a funk, the harder it is to see a way out of it.
Here are my tips for getting yourself out of a funk, fast:
Read MoreWe could all do with a boost in confidence from time to time, couldn’t we?
In this blog post, I’m going to share with you 9 simple ways you can increase confidence and self esteem in less than 10 minutes. Because, let’s face it, we often neglect our mindset work because we feel like it’s going to take too long to see results or we have more important things we need to focus on.
But the thing is, when we work on increasing our confidence every day - even for just 5 minutes - we begin to build solid confidence foundations that we can rely on to help us be more productive, be visible online and go after our goals.
Read MoreThe journey to self love is ongoing.
There’s no follow this strategy, take this action, BAM, I love myself, the end.
(Oh wouldn’t that be easy)
It takes time, practice and persistence to fall in love with yourself.
But what does self love actually mean?
When I talk about being in love with yourself I mean:
Read MoreWe can’t help ourselves, can we?
We open up our social apps (through boredom) and we’re met with feed after feed of shiny, successful, beautiful women smashing all their goals, raking in all the cash and achieving the success you’ve been dreaming of for years.
Part of us wants to feel inspired by their success - if they can do it, surely it’s possible for me too? - but the truth is, seeing other women soar as we’re stuck in struggle leaves us feeling like shit.
So we find ourselves in a pity party, wondering why we’re not good enough and feeling like a failure.
Comparing ourselves to other women creates self doubt and when we’re doubting ourselves, we can’t achieve what we want.
Read MoreAffirmations are all about changing the way you speak to yourself and reprogramming the beliefs you play on repeat.
Beliefs like “I can’t do that”, “I’m not confident enough” and “who would want to listen to me?”.
Instead of repeating these negative phrases - that have now become our beliefs - we swap them for positive phrases or positive affirmations.
For example:
I can’t becomes I can
I’m not confident enough becomes I am confident in everything I do
Who would want to listen to me becomes my audience need to hear what I have to say
But when we’ve created our affirmations, how do we then use them?
Read MoreAffirmations are a powerful tool to help increase confidence, self esteem and even help you grow your business.
There are plenty of affirmations you can use depending on your goal but one of the most effective ways to use affirmations is by creating your own based on a new belief you want to form or by rewriting the limiting beliefs that are holding you back.
If you’re new to affirmations and what to understand what they are and why you should use them, read this post.
How to create affirmations
First of all, have a think about a new belief you would like to create for yourself.
It could be that you want more confidence in yourself or you want to make more money in your business. Be specific about what you want to achieve and start thinking of sentences that you feel connected to.
Read MoreThe first time I heard about affirmations was in an episode of Sex and the City.
Charlotte and Carrie had gone to a seminar about finding love and Charlotte had stood up, shared that she was repeating her affirmations every day but Mr Right still hadn’t shown up.
The host had criticised her, saying she probably just wasn’t trying hard enough and Carrie stood up and said “Believe me, she is”.
I didn’t take much notice of affirmations then but when I became a business owner, I started to take mindset work more seriously. When I invested in a 1:1 coach to help me increase both my confidence and success in my business, one of the tools she mentioned was affirmations.
I realised then that I’d been using affirmations for years, I just didn’t know that’s what they were called.
Read MoreIt took me a long time to understand how powerful affirmations can be.
I always felt like a bit of an idiot repeating ‘I am confident’ out loud to myself but as time went on, I began to see the impact those 3 words were having on my confidence.
Now, as part of my daily routine, I choose a new affirmation each morning and repeat it as many times as I can within 10 minutes.
Here are 31 of my favourite affirmations to help you increase your confidence:
Read MoreThe first time I heard about journaling, I was skeptical.
So you want me to write in a diary, like I used to when I was a kid?
Excellent.
But as with any mindset work, the more I practiced journaling, the more I began to notice shifts in my mental health.
“I’m not a confident person” was a story I’d told myself for years.
Read MoreAs an entrepreneur, it’s important to stay inspired, to feel motivated and keep the passion for your business alive, even during the hard times.
One of my favourite ways to feel an instant boost of #inspo is to search for powerful quotes on Pinterest or Instagram. Reading something that has me shouting “YES, I’VE GOT THIS” is sometimes all I need to keep going when imposter syndrome’s kicking in or something hasn’t quite gone to plan.
Read MoreYour prices form the foundation of a successful social media management business.
But what most people do is create their packages first and look at their prices second.
This makes pricing your services stressful. It also leads to you not pricing in a way that supports you in creating the life you want to live.
In The Pricing Academy™ I teach you to do things the other way round.
If you start with your price, you know that every month you can hit your income goal without having to hustle, without feeling overwhelmed and without having to sign 15+ clients just to make the money you need to pay your bills.
Read MoreIn this series, I'm sharing with you my A-Z guide of pricing tips to help you price your services with confidence and feel more confident charging what you need to support yourself. Here are letters Y + Z.
Y is for You deserve clients + You need me, I don’t need you
You deserve to sign the clients that you want. You have experience, you know what you're doing, you get amazing results, you are worthy and deserving of the clients that you want. Please remember that.
You need me, I don't need you.
Remember that Ed Sheeran song? ‘You need me man, I don’t need you’.
Read MoreIn this series, I'm sharing with you my A-Z guide of pricing tips to help you price your services with confidence and feel more confident charging what you need to support yourself. Here are letters V-X.
V is for Value
To feel confident with your prices you need to know in your heart that you are delivering incredible value to your clients.
So let's say you’ve used my pricing formula and your platform price comes out at £500 per month. Then you get to decide what goes into the package. Remember, you can create a bespoke package for each client.
Read MoreIn this series, I'm sharing with you my A-Z guide of pricing tips to help you price your services with confidence and feel more confident charging what you need to support yourself. Here are letters S-U.
S is for Selling is Serving
I know some of you really struggle with selling, I know you feel icky, and you worry that you're going to be sleazy. But you are not. You have a service that is going to change the game for your client’s businesses.
You have a service that can completely transform somebody else's business. You can help them bring in more money, you can help them bring in more leads, you can help them build a presence, you can help them do so many things with the offer that you have.
Read MoreIn this series, I'm sharing with you my A-Z guide of pricing tips to help you price your services with confidence and feel more confident charging what you need to support yourself. Here are letters P-R.
P is for creating Packages
I’m not a fan of hourly rates because when you charge an hourly rate, the better you get at the job, the less you get paid.
This is why I encourage my community and members of The Pricing Academy® to create packages instead. After you’ve used my pricing formula to work out your platform price, you create a package full of value that reflects the amount you’re going to charge.
Read MoreIn this series, I'm sharing with you my A-Z guide of pricing tips to help you price your services with confidence and feel more confident charging what you need to support yourself. Here are letters M-O.
M is for Monthly minimums
When I say monthly minimums, I mean monthly minimum agreements.
What I see a lot of social media managers do, especially in the early stages, is just offering clients a month to month rolling contract. But what that does is put a lot more pressure on you to constantly be looking for clients. You constantly have in the back of your mind that you’ve only got the client for a month and you worry “what if they don't continue?”.
Read MoreIn this series, I'm sharing with you my A-Z guide of pricing tips to help you price your services with confidence and feel more confident charging what you need to support yourself. Here are letters J-L.
J is for ad-Just (adjust)
This question comes up quite a lot with social media managers in my community: “how often should I adjust my prices?”
Your income goal is going to change pretty regularly. Your personal expenses might change and as your business grows, your expenses might change too, especially if you're investing in courses or coaching or you want to start outsourcing some tasks.
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