Here in the UK the school holidays have just started, seven long weeks of kids being around the house and asking ‘What are we going to do today Mum?’  Most freelance trainers work from home and whilst we must take the opportunity to enjoy spending time with our children,  there’s no getting away from the [...]

Have you ever noticed how associating with positive people can have

I’m sure you’re all aware of the current trend for creating information products as a way of adding multiple streams of income. It seems to be everywhere at the moment. I’m coming across more and more business owners who are providing products such as Special Reports, E Books, and Teleseminars. This is a fundamental [...]

Are you finding it a lot tougher to get clients than you expected? Has your work dried up? Here are 6 key questions you should ask yourself if you want to move re-energise your training business in 2010.

Freelance trainers – what would you like to achieve in 2010 and what might get in the way?

Today’s Tip: Take Action
Well, we’ve finally reached the end of this blog series – 20 Ways To Re-Energise Your Training Business.
I hope you’ve enjoyed reading my tips as much as I’ve enjoyed putting them together for you.
I’d like to ask you a couple of questions:
How are you going to use the [...]

Today’s Tip: Get Active on Social Networking

Social networking has been popping up quite a lot in this blog series.
In Part 8 we looked at joining an online network such as Trainer Talk on Linked In
In Part 9 we looked at starting your own Trainer Network and using Linked in or Ecademy to find [...]

Today’s Tip: Create An Information Product
I’m sure you’re all aware of the current trend for creating information products as a way of adding
multiple streams of income. It seems to be everywhere at the moment – I’m coming across more and more business owners who are providing products such as Special Reports, E Books, Audios [...]

Today’s Tip: Get Testimonials
In Part 2 of 20 Ways To Re-Energise Your Training Business I asked you to do this exercise:
Audit Your Business.
List on a piece of paper or on a spreadsheet every single piece of work that you have done since you set up your business. Write down:
- Client name
- [...]

Today’s Tip: Get Tweeting

Over the past 2 months I’ve become a huge fan of Twitter. If you’re not familiar with it here’s the official definition from www.twitter.com
Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that allows you answer the question, “What are you doing?” by sending short text messages 140 characters in length, called [...]