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Under construction for home workers
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As I’ve mentioned before, I’m currently on Daniel Priestley’s KPI programme, and he’s working us hard! This week I’ll be putting the finishing touches to a free ebook and podcast called The 7 Things People Never Tell You About Working from Home. They will both be available here on the site [...]
Free to good home office
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Our home office clearouts are proceeding apace and yesterday A started a paper cull of his filing cabinet with me manning the shredder. Having got rid of lots of old documents from my own filing cabinet over the Christmas/New Year break, I had a theory that we could share a cabinet and dispose of [...]
Please can you lovely home workers help me spread the word about The BIG Jelly?
511 year ago
The BIG Jelly is now only two months away, on Friday 25 March, and it’s high time I told you what’s happening.
The BIG Jelly was the idea of Jan Minihane, my Jelly friend and the founder of Shropshire Jelly, who was so thrilled at the collaborations that came out of her local Jellys that she [...]
What’s mine is yours…?
51 year ago
At the moment I’m staying in a flat in west London in a spacious room with a comfortable bed made up with crisp white linen, a TV, free wifi and access to a kitchen. The Hammersmith & City line is at the end of the road and the Central line an easy walk away. The new Westfield shopping centre is [...]
Speaking of home workers and sales…
71 year ago
I’ve bumped the planned post for today in order to let you know about this offer from my friend and mentor Nick Williams of Inspired Entrepreneur. Until next Wednesday 12 January you can get a signed copy of Nick’s latest book The Business You Were Born to Create sent post-free anywhere in the [...]
Normal home working service has been resumed
81 year ago
Apologies for the lack of blogs lately. I’ve been away for most of the last two weeks and without wifi for much of that time, which is wonderfully relaxing while it lasts, but of course means a backlog when you do get back online!
Firstly I was in North Wales for a week, staying in a beautifully [...]
Home working style page 2
121 year ago
I’ve been working on and off over the weekend to catch up with some of the backlog that built up last week while I was suffering with a cold (and cluttered up my newly clear desk!) One of the jobs I’ve done, with A’s help as usual, is create a new home working style page. We felt the first one [...]
The clouds clear for home workers
181 year ago
Continuing the habit of writing on Thursdays about the things I’m thankful for, today the subject is technology, which is the reason so many of us can do what we do from home.
Technology can cut us off from other people, if that’s the way we choose to use it, but it can also connect us in ways [...]
Help for home workers
71 year ago
The last few Thursdays I’ve been writing about the things I’m thankful for, and you’ve shared your own pleasures and achievements. I was wondering what the topic could be today and decided it was an ideal opportunity to mention two people who have been a huge help to me in the creation of Work [...]
It’s Work from Home Day
201 year ago
Apparently today is National Work from Home Day, which must be one of this week’s best-kept secrets. I’ve just checked back and last year it was on 15 May, so at this rate the next one will be early February 2012. However, I’m not one to complain about a cause for celebration, even if it’s not [...]
Is reading this blog making you stupid?
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Over the weekend I’ve been reading about Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember. I’m not surprised to learn that the average Briton spends almost half their time looking at a screen (computer, television or phone). As home workers we [...]
The 7 secrets to becoming a professional speaker
111 year ago
I love going up to London for the day, especially when I’m going to learn something new and be inspired, so I’m very excited about an event being held by Triumphant Events in September. I’ve been to several of their talks and workshops and always come away with my head buzzing with new ideas, and [...]
A moving experience
101 year ago
Moving house is supposed to be up there amongst the most stressful events of a lifetime, and if you run a business from home, there’s even more to consider. We’ve moved our home and two businesses several times in recent years and so I’ve distilled my experiences into a short guide ‘How to move [...]
Working 5 to 9
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Yes, you did read that right, despite Dolly Parton’s chirpings! It’s the title of the latest book by Emma Jones, the founder of Enterprise Nation, the online resource for setting up and growing a home business. Emma has identified a growing band of people running businesses alongside their jobs, [...]
News, news!
01 year ago
Those of you who are self-employed will know that there are many milestones when you’re working for yourself – collecting your new business cards, your first meeting, the first client, first invoice (whoo hoo). I’ve just achieved a milestone by sending out my first newsletter. (And you can sign [...]
