Seeing the bigger picture for 2012

January 11, 2012

photo credit: feral rogue I started 2012 with a week long Buddhist meditation retreat – the purpose of which was to clear my mind and, as my teacher says ” see the wood from the trees”. If you are lost in a forrest which is the best way out? Blindly hacking away at the undergrowth [...]

Read the full article →

Happy Christmas!

December 24, 2011

photo credit: Globalism Pictures Thank you for all your support this year. Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and looking forward to connecting in the New Year! Love Kate x

Read the full article →

What does your website look like on a mobile device?

December 18, 2011

photo credit: lightwerk By the middle of 2011 more people were accessing websites through mobile devices than on their computers, so it’s important to consider how your website looks and functions when viewed on an iPhone or SmartPhone. From my own experience, viewing a website on an iPhone can be a painful experience. The text [...]

Read the full article →

What do you want from your life and work? The answers are within you…

December 12, 2011

I’ve been thinking about this in relation to a recent conversations with someone struggling to find out in which direction they REALLY wanted their business to go. What was it they loved, and did this fit with what they had become expert at over the years? How often do we rely on external influences to [...]

Read the full article →

Businesses run by lovely people being true to themselves – Katie MacDonald

November 29, 2011

I first met Katie MacDonald in 2008 when she trained with me at Pier to Peer Coaching to be a VA. I always knew Katie would be successful as a VA, she has a drive, determination and business ethics that make Virtually Does It stand head and shoulders above most VA businesses. We have worked [...]

Read the full article →

Fonts are cool!

November 18, 2011

OK,  I guess it’s not surprising I love fonts, it’s the sort of geeky thing web designers are prone to. I remember in art class at school using Letraset – I think I fell in love with lettering right at that moment. The combination of fonts and Kickstarter – the wonderful platform that enables projects [...]

Read the full article →

Are you operating at full bandwith?

November 14, 2011

Are you leading using all of your bandwith and expressing all of yourself in your business? This makes fundamental sense to me as I’ve seen clients who bring what they love to their business engaging in a way that is very different from those who don’t bring their heart to their work. Nic Askew expresses [...]

Read the full article →

Are you lonesome tonight (or tapping into a great business support community?)

November 3, 2011

photo credit: Steve Snodgrass So, what ARE you doing to get support for your business? It can be an isolating experience, especially if you are running a business on your own from a home based office. I’ve worked with a number of different coaches throughout my 8 year journey from self employment to company owner [...]

Read the full article →

How to learn to love web statistics (really!)

October 17, 2011

photo credit: brockvicky   Searching for an image on Flickr I found pages and pages of “boring” looking graphs – exactly what put me off web statistics in the first place I have to admit. If the last time you looked at a graphs was in maths class at school, you might want to re-visit those [...]

Read the full article →

Steve Jobs – 1955-2011

October 6, 2011

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it by living someone else’s life…have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →