Plan For Growth

  • Want to know how to grow from idea to empire?

    Adopt these 6 traits of successful Productpreneurs with fast-growth businesses In celebration of International Women’s Day today, I’d like to introduce you to my client Kristy Chong, founder of award-winning underwear brand Modibodi. Kristy’s journey of entrepreneurship is so impressive and inspiring that she was recently named by Fairfax Media as one of 9 Australian business women […]

  • Who is the brains trust in your business? Just you?

    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 […]

  • There are 3 types of entrepreneurs in the world. Which one are you?

    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 […]

  • How to Sell (Without Being Salesy!)

    Learning how to find your customers and then getting comfortable ‘selling’ is a huge deal. Converting website visitors, email subscribers and social media followers into customers is a huge deal and generating consistent profit is the goal for all of us, right? This week I’m a guest on the Mums With Hustle podcast, where I walk […]

  • Not everyone is going to be obsessed with you

    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 […]

  • How to Win Customers and Influence Sales

    Today I want to show you how to make your brand the chip to your customers’ seagulls. Sitting by the river on a glorious warm and sunny autumn afternoon, licking my greasy, salty fingers after a scrumptious fish and chip dinner with my kids. (I love to cook, so this was a rarity!) In between […]

  • The #1 cause of stress and fatigue as a Mumpreneur

    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 […]

  • Want to know the one key factor that predicts your success in business?

    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 […]

  • On the importance of knowing your Why

    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 […]