People read email, and the clearer and better your email is, the more people will read it. How often should I email? Minimum? Once a week. Once a week? Won’t I annoy people? If you email self-promotional bollox? Yes you will. If your email is something that is not relevant, weird, poorly written, hard to […]
How To Slow Down To Speed Up Your Projects
So where were we? Last week I was crying onto the page that the world did not know where it was going. Mainly, what’s also going on with my projects and plans. You can read or listen to it here. This week we stopped and looked where we are and rebooted with more focus and […]
The Next Normal – Do We Just Get On With It?
How is ‘the next normal’ looking for you? As the lockdown rules change in the UK, how do you feel about the next few months? Are you stuck? What have you changed in your business model? Are you sick of video calls yet? This week I want to share about how three months of COVID […]
Our Best WordPress Plugins – Why We Love Them.
This post will help you understand how WordPress tools fit together on your coworking space website. If you are ever talking to a web person or chatting and someone says ‘oh yeah, WordPress is sooooo simple, you should use that!’ Run, away – they are a liar! It is so simple! What a phase! Phrases […]
10 Ways Audio Can Change Your Life And Make You Smarter
I love the audio. All of my best ideas come from walking around and listening to audio. But it was not always like this. The humble combination of a cell phone, app and headphones turned my life around. It saved it and opened up a whole new universe for me. Feeling dumb, stupid […]
The no-nonsense Marketing tips during a pandemic.
COVID has shaken up the world like nothing in recent memory. This is especially true for businesses and freelancers. We’ve all learned some hard lessons and had to admit that our old ways of thinking (like trying to plan 12 months ahead of time) are no longer going to work for us. I sat down […]
How To Get Going with the 12-Week Year Plan.
Planning Your Business 12 Weeks at a Time With the summer months approaching Christmas is probably the furthest thing from most people’s minds. If you are hoping to build your current coworking space, or start a new one, now is the time to start looking towards the end of the year so 2021 can be […]
How To Market Your Coworking Space: The Simple Way.
I bet you think marketing is hard, I do. For over a decade I’ve been trying to figure out marketing, both mine and other peoples. Everyone seems to be doing better than me, is ahead of the curve, on the ball and whatever else. They’re more immediate on Instagram, terrific on twitter, fancy on Facebook […]
Why Coworking Now Needs To Be Local And Not Privileged
Last week was HUGE! We had the Coworking Symposium to which hundreds of you showed up, my eyes and ears were bleeding with hope and excitement for the future of coworking in Europe.After that, there was the Coworkies Hack Coworking event and while all of this was going on hundreds of more people in the […]
Coworking Symposium 2020: Knowledge needs to be shared.
The Coworking Symposium is going virtual this May 27 at 9amCET. What is initially a limited number of people, will reach a much wider audience since we are doing it online due to the recent events that have taken place-the global pandemic that is Covid-19. The coworking industry has been around for almost 25 years […]
How to avoid being caught in the Email Newsletter void.
Another email newsletter??? Have you ever said that to yourself when you received one of those? You know, you subscribed to one of those cause you were really into the product they’re selling. You really want to know what they have to say, what’s new with them. And then you kind of lost interest in […]
How to outrun anxiety and make the most of lock-down time
Something clicked when lockdown began. It was the start of the next ‘12 Week Year‘ segment, I’m standing in my broom cupboard office in Mainyard not sure what is going on. And the anxiety sets in before anyone else has prepared. At that point, my main ‘12 Week Goal‘ was to stay alive and not […]
Email Marketing in A Social Media World – a simple guide.
“If Social Media is the cocktail party, then email marketing is the ‘meet up for coffee’. The original 1 to 1 channel.” -Erik Harbison You would’ve thought that in a world of social media, email marketing would be on the bottom of the tier of effective marketing strategy. How come even the big and established […]
How to Find ‘The Next Normal’ For Coworking.
The Next Normal Have you been saying words like ‘when things go back to normal I will..?‘ In this McKinsey article ‘Beyond coronavirus: The Path to the next normal‘ the use of the term ‘the next normal‘ and how I see the future. And this is what I’m scrambling to find out at the moment. […]
A New Freelance Hope In The COVID-19 Crisis
How has this epidemic changed you? What are you doing more of in this crisis?How has your business changed? Where is it going now? Share in the Instagram comments here. Before we get into this. I need to point out these words are by a healthy white man living in London with enough money to […]
