Trusting your employees. There are two options.

There’s always been a lot of talk about ‘starting up’ but not so much about ‘finishing up’ - knowing when to quit.

How I failed: So close to achieving my dream and then walking away.

In my experience if you can get a business to operate excellently remotely any physical spaces only enhance what you do.

In July 2022 I made the decision to shut down my strategic brand design agency, at a time when the business was probably in the best shape it had ever been since I started it in 2013.

But is it really? I did some business coaching with an Action Coach a few years ago to improve my business acumen and they gave me this '5 ways' matrix.

I am making a prediction for the future...

I have just been on a mentoring call with a venture at Imperial Enterprise Lab and the question was "how do you get someone to do your B2B sales for you - can we just get a University grad to help us?".

Now we are at peak LinkedIn content and lead magnets are everywhere implementing the common lead magnet process to win new clients used to work but I found that when I was running my strategic brand design agency, Hands Down!®, all the agencies were doing the same approach so it became harder and harder to achieve any cut through and generate a response.