Where Premium Brands Come To Grow
Today I am talking to a true pioneer in the world of eCommerce, the founder of Uberkate, Kate Sutton. I’m so excited to bring you this interview as Kate truly opens up about her journey of creating an award-winning personalised and gemstone jewellery brand over 18 years. There are so many important lessons that Kate […]
Tell me – have you ever heard someone successful tell you their overnight success took several years in the making? This doesn’t quite play into our desires or expectations of instant gratification does it! The line from here to success is never straight, no matter what your endeavour. And it rarely happens overnight! But with […]
Do you have a business growth mindset? When you start your business, you’re exited and motivated to change the world. Then, the realities of business set in… Things get hard and they don’t always go to plan. You’re at the mercy of platforms you can’t control and customers don’t always react the way you imagine […]
Setbacks happen in business. It’s impossible to avoid dealing with failure on some level. Sometimes you make a mistake. Sometimes, someone else makes one that impacts you in your business. And sometimes, things change in the industry or market forces conspire against you. How you deal with business mistakes and failures will be the making […]
Running a business alone can be a daunting, isolating experience at times… How do you come up with ideas? Problem solve? Decide what strategies to implement? How do you stay motivated and productive? Read on for my view AND access to a highly valuable FREE advisory resource… Staying focused on the RIGHT tasks is hard enough […]
When I first met and started working with Kylie, her business was busy, but she was very stressed and overwhelmed. In a word, she was frantic! She’s a Mum of two young boys and had minimal help in her business: she really was doing it all. Days, late nights, weekends, she was hustling all the […]
Have you ever had that feeling of trying so incredibly hard to please everyone All. The. Time? Last week I asked the question, ‘Do your customers love you?’, and some of you may have been thinking, ‘Well I damn well hope so given how hard I try to please them all the time!’ But it doesn’t always […]
If you’re, like me, a Mum and a business owner (affectionately known by some as a “Mumpreneur”), then I have a good idea of how you’re feeling at this tail end of the year. They don’t call it the silly season for nothing do they? I’ll bet you often feel stressed out. Totally overwhelmed by […]
Over the weekend just gone, I was privileged to attend the annual AusMumpreneur Awards for 2015, in Melbourne, Australia. In fact, I was invited to sit on the panel of judges tasked with choosing the overall winner for the big gong, the AusMumpreneur of the Year! (Being a judge this year was lovely recognition of […]
So for my very first blog post I thought I’d discuss how important it is to know WHY you’re in business. Why you started the business you’re in. Thinking about this topic always brings to mind a quote from Dr Seuss: “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can […]
