How To Best Use Marketing Budget To Open A Cool New Coworking Space
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How To Best Use Marketing Budget To Open A Cool New Coworking Space

I had a few calls last month with people opening a coworking space in their local area. This post has the answers I found myself giving every time; all of the people I spoke with were independent owners with their own money. They are opening in their local town or village because they do not want to travel anymore. You'll have noticed our global pandemic. The pandemic brings an endless debate on the future of work; together with a wheelbarrow load of uncertainty. Even people like me, who h
The Best Way to Market Your Coworking Space is to Keep it Simple.
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The Best Way to Market Your Coworking Space is to Keep it Simple.

Quick start to your marketing plan, well you need to allow at least fourteen hours. And then the time you spend thinking about it. But you don't make thousands of pounds a month by spending a few minutes making a plan and executing it in one day. The Pain A lot of the pain we face with marketing is not knowing what bit to do when. Every book, video, blog post or course gives us a new idea. You end up trying a new thing every week, second and third guessing yourself. I also believe people
How I Got Into Coworking - You Never Know Who
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How I Got Into Coworking - You Never Know Who

How do we meet people? Making an event out of connecting. How I got into coworking My friend Debbie has been in the copywriting business since before we had computers. She sat down one day to work out how she knew everyone in her business world. It all led back to a handful people, and it is the same with me. It is fascinating because no matter how much you plan the events you attend. The courses you take or which way you swipe on a dating app. You never know who is going to impact your life
How I Made A Surprisingly Confident 12 Week Writing Plan
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How I Made A Surprisingly Confident 12 Week Writing Plan

How I got into coworking 2008 - 2020 - The Prequel So there I was thinking what on earth will I do in the next 90 Day Content Challenge? I'll write about my last ten, maybe twelve years of coworking, a chapter every week - how hard can that be? I'll write the intro in this post here as I'm still dumping ideas in One Note and Mind Meister. Then I'll buy some time to get my shit together for week two. I'm surprisingly confident about my 12 Week, or 90 Day plan. If you have just joined u
Why You Need A New Mindset for 2021
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Why You Need A New Mindset for 2021

How is your 2021 so far? I read the First rule of 2021 is not to dwell on what went wrong in 2020. I’m always up for reflection, journaling and review - but I’m finding bitching about 2020 is a full-time job for some people. I wrote a lot over December, but it was confusing and weird, which would be fine if I was Lady Gaga or Andy Warhol writing to you but, well you know. Something I found out over the holidays was I needed to stop. But at the same time I could not wait to get back to work.
The simple life changing decision I accomplished this week
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The simple life changing decision I accomplished this week

I decided to stop whining this week. I mean no one was listening, so I’m already saving time. Now I have all this spare time on my hands so I wrote down what to do in 2021, the next 12-Week Year is looming at the beginning of January, and I am mad for it! How and when to make a JFDI decision I've been part of a UK based group of freelancer content marketers for around five years now. It is very accurate to say we've all grown together by having online calls and 90 Day Writing challenges
SEO Plugin Match-Off: Yoast vs Rank Math
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SEO Plugin Match-Off: Yoast vs Rank Math

I’ve been writing on and off for years, professionally and personally. The thing is, I haven’t got a clue about Search Engine Optimization when I started. Being a content writer and copywriter, SEO is one of the important skills that you need to master when you really want to let the World Wide Web know your blog, your product or your service and get it out in the world. SEO ranking is kinda a big deal when you’re a business trying to get the people to know all about your products or services o
All Markets Are Conversations. Unless You Are My Salesforce Account Manager.
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All Markets Are Conversations. Unless You Are My Salesforce Account Manager.

Look I don’t mean to write ‘I don’t know how you can’ because I know how you can. But I don’t know how you can hope to gain anything by acting like this with people. Before I got to our company, someone who has now left signed us up for six seats on Salesforce, the popular CRM started by Marc Benioff in 1999. I inherited Salesforce and I now feel like Dr Dre when he wanted to leave Death Row records and could not. Half our company ended up using HubSpot which everyone quickly got to gri
My "Mother Of All 12 Week Year Plans"
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My "Mother Of All 12 Week Year Plans"

Look, I hate to sound sorry for myself amid all this good fortune, but it is a lot to take in. And I wonder Part of me does wonder what I need. When will I be satisfied? When I was depressed, and nothing seemed to be working, I have panic attacks, hate myself and walk around in a daze. When everything is working amazingly, I have panic attacks and walk around in a daze. I love myself, in a healthy self-worth kind of way these days. The third week in Next week is my third week as Cheif
It Was The Best Of Times It Was The Worst Of Times
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It Was The Best Of Times It Was The Worst Of Times

Holy snails balls Batman! I've only been at the Coworking space near my home for a week, and my whole mental energy has shifted. It is my '15 minute city" dream come true. In the coworking community, we've been talking about shared workspaces in local towns; now everyone has a different outlook on the commute. Read "What if everyone could walk to work?" PDF download by Town Square here. By Town Square Somehow I've gone from hanging on by the skin of my teeth to, okay "bitches, what's nex
My Fear Of Letting Go And Escape Velocity
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My Fear Of Letting Go And Escape Velocity

So I stalled out for a few weeks writing here. There has been a massive positive change in my life and work. BUT I feel like I'm balanced on the edge of a cliff. And I know that instead of falling, I'm going to jump off and fly, but I'm having fear of letting go. I am so scared of letting go even though the new work direction is a brilliant gift. BUT — 50% of start up's fail. If it does not work, of course, it will be a kick in the teeth. But I'll learn so much, and I'll go back to what
I have a new role!  — is that enough of a headline?
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I have a new role! — is that enough of a headline?

So, reader, last week moved at 100 miles an hour. European Freelancers Week hit 60 + online events including THE BIG one - Coworking and Coliving Conference (CCCSEE) which over 380 people turned up to watch. You can flick through the CCCSSE live stream here. We were also setting the up the launch campaign for my new podcast, 'How to Market Your Coworking Space the Simple Way.' Oh, and then I posted to Linkedin I'd become Cheif Operating Officer at Velvet. Wait! You are the what of what Bern
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