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 lockdown is working out for me. It feels like an ongoing mix of triumphs and confusion, sitting down to write this to you got me in super reflective mood. But I'm worried about something. It does worry me how this
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 that has given me so much pain over twenty years I've been freelancing or running my own business. Any automated marketing tool from Mailchimp to MailPoet, to Salesforce to SendFox and FreeAgent t
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 and inadequate. So I was staring at my paperback copies of "A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy" by Stern and "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" by Dickens and could feel the panic coming over me. I just could n
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 and spoke with three brilliant people to get some advice on how business owners and freelancers can continue to profit and build their customer base during a global pandemic. Monica Sood - Monica Ink. Peo
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 more successful than you imagine. I recently spoke to Carsten of Desk Mag to find out when people are most likely to join a coworking space. His response was sometime around or after a major holiday.
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 and more linked up on LinkedIn than me. Oh, and they have an email list with a million more people than me. I was dying, I looked at what worked and what did not, I also looked at what I LOVED
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 UK signed #Saveourlocalcoworking. We also launched our Q&A sessions for European coworking businesses with Every week we'll record a Group video chat with our friend's Cobot, OfficeRnD and Nex
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 now before it was even called coworking. And since then the community has grown all over the globe. What started with a hackerspace in 1995 as the precursor of what we know today
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 what they have to say. (Or maybe you got conned into subscribing into it). And you’re probably thinking “what if my subscribers think like that too?”. How often do I have to send an email? What if
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 lose my head to anxiety. Human's need certainty It turns out as humans we all need some certainty. And 2020 was one of the most 'certain' years I was going to have in my life so far. In 2019 I received