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How to Educate Your Clients (Without Sounding Like a Teacher)

How to Educate Your Clients (Without Sounding Like a Teacher)

I used to over-explain everything. Like… EVERYTHING. I’d send long voice notes, detailed emails, screenshots with arrows pointing at things. Helpful? Yes. Overwhelming? Also yes. What I learned is this:People don’t need all the information.They need...
9 Tools Every Small Business Should Use for Better Marketing Workflows

9 Tools Every Small Business Should Use for Better Marketing Workflows

You don’t need fancy tech.Just smart systems. 1. Canva For:• Graphics• Carousels• Branding Easy. Fast. Professional. 2. Meta Business Suite Schedule:• Instagram• Facebook Free and reliable. 3. Google Drive Store:• Content ideas• Brand assets• Client docs Everything in...
The 3 post types every service business should be using

The 3 post types every service business should be using

One of the biggest reasons content feels hard is because business owners think they need to constantly come up with new ideas. New angles.New formats.New inspiration every week. In reality, most service businesses only need a small number of post types to work well on...
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...

How a Walk can bring you closer to your Goals

How a Walk can bring you closer to your Goals

Happy, happy Sunday! Have you had a productive day? Or was it more of an R&R situation? Both are equally as valuable in my opinion (not that you asked but, ya know). We did something today that we haven’t done in a long time, a long ass walk in the Peak District!...

My Story Scheduling

My Story Scheduling

Okay so there are a number of platforms you could use to schedule stories, I’ve tried my fair share and all I’ll say is - as a professional and experienced marketing agency, we use Meta for a reason. The others break and lose connection far more often, they get...

Mistakes You’re Making on Stories

Mistakes You’re Making on Stories

This is a rough transcription/the written version of my Instagram Live, if you want to watch the live in it’s entirety, click here. I’m going to start this by holding my hands up and say, I’ve done ALL of these mistakes myself. That’s what lead to my Story views...

Small Steps, Big Changes

Small Steps, Big Changes

I don’t know if it’s approaching 30, almost getting married or a shift due to emerging from lockdown - but probably over the last 4 months or so I feel like I’ve gradually been making lots of tiny steps, that all add up to some huge changes in me. I’m definitely...