OMG, who the hell is selling in the Coronavirus downturn? Well, hopefully, a lot of people as we need to keep the economy going. Which is completely different just profiteering from it and ambulance-chasing. marketing I’ve been keeping a keen eye on how people are dealing with marketing and communication, the language in use and online […]
FFS Don’t Stop Marketing! And how to do that NOW!
Have your feet even touched the floor this week? The air surrounding us is bleak with uncertainty and everything seems to be in a standstill. And ‘homeschooling’ and ‘remote work’ has left the realm of progressive parents and digital nomads to become the new normal. And it seems that people treat contacting the Corona Virus […]
How To Gear Up Your Business Best In The Covirus Shut Down.
Just because the World is shutting down, it does not mean your business has to. Hard as it may seem right at this moment in time, there is plenty of good work to be done in the downtime, so you can come back stronger than ever. Are you on Linkedin? Have you seen the onslaught […]
How To Make $10 Million From One Simple Blog Post
How do you do that? And yes is a true story, the number goes up all the time, and of course, there is a little bit more to it. How do you make this kind of money? By answering other people’s questions on his website. Someone asked me what is ‘they ask you answer’ thing […]
How Many Communities Do You Need To Be Able To Thrive?
It takes a village to raise a child, and it takes a bunch of communities to build a freelancer from coworking spaces to online communities to conferences. #Freelance life is a never-ending lesson – here are the many communities I need to be able to thrive! It has taken years to find them, build relationships […]
Why Is The ’12-Week Year’ So Good? Here’s why!
Have you heard of the book ‘The 12-Week Year’? No? Oh wow! It’s so good! But, why is the ‘12-Week Year‘ so good? Well, you know when you have all these goals and ideas and need to get them in order? You want to make them happen. Your calendar is rolling around like a drunken […]
How To Blog Quickly About YOUR Coworking Space Every Time
“We just don’t have time to write!” Is what I hear all the time from owners and marketing people who are responsible for running coworking spaces. Every week I’m talk about this with members of our London Coworking Assembly and my marketing mates. Then this weekend our family went to see Sonic the Hedgehog movie. And it […]
How To Avoid The Pain Of Your Marketing Plan – (and it’s not what you think)
One of the recurring themes for people is finding the right tool to make their marketing work like magic. When I ask people what they need the tool for they say something like, ‘to make marketing simple and save time.’ Before we go on, I had to work this one out too. I thought a […]
How To Be More Productive (And Not Lose £191,553.45 Like Me)
Two Simple Productivity Tips. In this post, I’ll share two things that have helped my productivity over the last few years, and they are NOT apps or gadgets. Are you always wondering where your time goes?Are you looking for an ‘edge’? You can get helpful actionable direction like this in my ‘Sunday Scenario email‘ where […]
How To Execute A Killer Marketing Plan With Less Crap
Ok, I am a big fan of the 12 Week/90-day frameworks, and over the last few years, it has worked very well for me. Those of you who’ve been following my website for a few years will know I’m a raving fanboy of the ’12 Week Year’ book and framework.And, before we go on. I […]
Writers Block: Punch That Arrogant Habit Right On The Nose
Not More Writers Block? Well, I don’t know it is writer’s block, it is something, and it was eating me up. We’ll call it Writers Block or I’ll never get started! First, I’ll share with you the two books that got me going again. One is by Tim Grahl, and it is called ‘Running Down A Dream‘ […]
Why September Is The Best Month To Get Writing
So I had a friend, and on their wall, they had a poster with the caption “A year from now you will wish you’d started today.’ It would make me roll my eyes; I’m not sure why and that is not the point of the story. Start a little writing habit Maybe five years ago, […]
Why I Am No Longer Talking To People About Blogging
What is this about Bernie? So we are building the Coalescent Podcast Network, and I thought I’d write about how we are doing that as it is going to come with some joy and pain and a lot of the agony we will have I’m sure you will too. I get asked a lot of […]
My Coworking Moonshot (and the stars look very different today)
(Image Credit Raymond Carrillo Flickr) So What Is A Moonshot Bernie? A few weeks ago, my mate Cat Johnson (the other best coworking content advisor in the world) asked me what my Coworking Moonshot was. The trouble with Cat asking me a question is I need to think about the answer, saying ‘to help people’ […]
How Finding Your Voice Is My Why
I was standing by the bar in Soho theatre after our 2010 Social Media Week #techForGood event. ‘You need to find your WHY Bernie’, Julie says. Julie tells me about a new TED talk with over 200k views by Simon Sinek. Simon says we should start with ‘our WHY’. I ponder and […]