Category Archives: Small Business Support
Tough to stay Healthy
I have been working in Chicago for one week, one week to go, it’s been amazing. Each working day is spent in a viewing facility; we have to send out for food selected from a vast range of options. Each … Continue reading
Get Fit to Fly
A New Dawn Since My Words Work For You began in 2013, I have spent a lot of time supporting other people’s businesses. It has given me great pleasure. I have encouraged business owners to get/stay fit, physically and mentally, … Continue reading
A Relaxed Approach To Marketing
We are approaching the end of two weeks spent in deepest France. Wherever we have gone we have encountered French people who do not speak English, I love it. We have fumbled our way around shops, restaurants and places of … Continue reading
Increasing Sales, Revenue and Loyalty
An Ailing Website When I was first approached by this client, the record for consecutive days of sales was nine. In the years preceding my input there had rarely ever been more than one sale a day, visits to the … Continue reading
The Irony of ‘Dear Valued Customer’
When opening those ‘Dear Valued Customer’ emails, how do you feel? Valued? Probably not. Would you email a friend with, ‘Dear person I like’? I think not. As a customer, if I have chosen to offer my details to a … Continue reading
Stately Customer Service
It’s early morning, I am sitting in my hotel room in Chicago with a mint tea, admiring my view… I am over here working for a client, ‘someone has to do it’. In spite of two long working days, and … Continue reading
The Future of Our High Streets
This is our local High Street. Behind the rather quaint façade of these properties with character is potentially, a tale of foreboding. Image Credit: Hertfordshire Life Is Retail Set to Fail? We moved to this area almost 20 years ago. … Continue reading
Small Business Marketing -It’s a jungle Out There
We have had the tremendous honour of being made ‘Guide Parents’. Close friends who are non-religious have chosen us to be ‘back-up’ for their most treasured and valuable possession, their child. We love her, we have a great relationship and … Continue reading
Are Your Customer Relationships Flying High?
This week I have booked over £5,000 worth of flights with a well known British flight operator. Myself and a client will be travelling to the United States, twice in the next two months. Usually, if I fly for personal … Continue reading
Radio Uplift #mentalhealthawareness
I have had an idea! I have lots of ideas, some good, some less so, some exciting. This idea has got legs… Radio 2’s ‘Pause for Thought’ this morning was in response to someone choosing to extinguish the lives of 22 … Continue reading
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