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When You Should Consider Outsourcing Your Marketing

When You Should Consider Outsourcing Your Marketing

You don’t have to do everything yourself. I know that’s hard to hear when:• You’re bootstrapping• You’re a control freak (hi 👋)• You think no one will “get it” like you But there comes a point where: You’re spending hours on contentYou’re still unsure what to...
How to Set Expectations With Clients So Everyone Wins

How to Set Expectations With Clients So Everyone Wins

Setting boundaries used to feel scary. I worried about:• Sounding rude• Losing clients• Being “too much” Now?It’s non-negotiable. From day one I’m clear on: • Response times• What’s included• What’s not included• How feedback works And guess what? Clients respect...
Why Most Businesses Don’t Get Results from Social Media (And How to Fix It)

Why Most Businesses Don’t Get Results from Social Media (And How to Fix It)

I see this all the time. “Social media just doesn’t work for my business.” But when we dig deeper, it’s usually one of these: • They post randomly• They never talk about their services• They disappear for weeks• They copy what everyone else is doing And...
My Marketing Strategy

My Marketing Strategy

I talk a lot about your marketing strategy, what I think it should look like and hitting your content pillars. But perhaps it would help to see how this Marketing Agency does it themselves? First things first, I print off a blank calendar for the month. It’s that...

Your Marketing Holiday Checklist

Like many other business owners, when I flew to Ibiza in April - I had three choices…Do twice a much work before I left.Do twice a much work when I return.Lose a week’s worth of earnings.As someone who starts to panic when they’re even one day behind schedule, you can...

Are you working or fighting?

I posted an Instagram story lately discussing how I was working at 8/9/10pm on a Friday evening, alongside a poll asking if you’d log on and crack on with work if you were feeling motivated or inspired.A few years ago, probably even last year, you wouldn’t have caught...

Top tips for Canva bliss!

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Losing Clients and Showing the Balance

Losing Clients and Showing the Balance

Do not get me wrong, I love seeing stories and sharing stories myself of winning clients and talking about signing our dream clients. It’s wonderful. But, any business will also lose clients. Denise Duffield-Thomas actually says that receiving your first refund...

Self Care without the Spa Day

Self Care without the Spa Day

First admission, I bloody love a spa day. I have one bought and paid for. But as a Mum, business owner and person who isn’t a lady of leisure - they’re not a regular occurrence in my diary.But, we all know how important self care is. We’re told constantly how we must...

Summer Holidays 99 – 0 Becka

Summer Holidays 99 – 0 Becka

Remember when I naively published this blog post, about how to succeed in the summer holidays? Erm yeah, I hate my former self.I actually wrote that last year, and really stupidly thought that 2022 would be the same, even tough I’m now a single mum and my business is...

Self Care doesn’t have to mean Stopping

Self Care doesn’t have to mean Stopping

I am absolutely here for the abolishment of hustle culture, and those who talk to me regularly know that I take plenty of down time. But I read something recently that stuck with me, and made me realise that sometimes - being productive is it’s own form of self...

What to expect in 2023…

What to expect in 2023…

Happy New Year! 🥳 I hope that you had a wonderful festive period, and are feeling restored and revved up for the year ahead. As I said in my Roundup of 2022 blog post, it’s hard to predict where Social Media will take us in 2023. Anyone who claims to know what to...