What's that I hear you say? No Black Friday offer? Nope, not from me, not sure how I feel about it tbh so instead, I'm focusing on my usual #ThingsILoveFridays💖 where I celebrate all that went well each week, giving me the opportunity to stop, and be grateful! I don’t think we give ourselves enough credit for doing all this hard work, right?
I've upgraded this into not only what I love but what I think you'll love too - useful, loveable, funny, no not just adjectives to describe me but also what I love to share....LOL.
Feeling completely stuck on where to start with your SEO for 2020? I am running a challenge next week in my Facebook group and would love you get involved
I prioritised self care landing back in the UK this past week, and I didn't hate it, so I updated my healthy habits at a computer blog post - still one of my most popular pieces ever - How to take care of yourself when at a computer
I went to see a Guardian Live event with Emma Thompson and friends at the Barbican talking about their book Last Christmas - it is very emotional as people share their stories of Christmas.
I got last minute tickets to see Ian McKellen's one man show - he's in London until 5th January and highly recommend (and I spoke with him!)
And now I'm off to finish writing the challenge for next week, getting some pampering done before heading to Devon tomorrow for a James Bond party (and yes I will be putting my own spin on Bond - check out my Stories to follow the adventures!)
What did you love this week? Come and tell me on Instagram 🙂
It's all go pre-holiday this week which is why it's so good to look back on the week and go ahhh, I achieved a lot, had a lot of fun, but I'm quite ready for some time off 😀By focusing on what went well each week, it gives me the opportunity to stop, and be grateful! I don’t think we give ourselves enough credit for doing all this hard work, right? I've upgraded this into not only what I love but wha I think you'll love too....so here’s what I loved this week:
I went to see a talk with Julie Andrews at Festival Hall (I cried, and that was nothing to do with the caiprinha I had at Ping Pong just before, haha)
I had a delicious catchup with my old school besties at the Riding House Cafe devouring the the truffled mac and cheese with excellent cocktails - yum!
I got a new accountability partner with the lovely Jen at Jackdaw Editorial (daily voice notes for the win!)
I had a lovely coffee + co-working time with Margot at Petite Pearl Events (yay for co-working IRL! Highly recommend)
I've been busy assigning characters for the murder mystery dinner party I'll be hosting next month - teehee, I'm the butler.
Yay! The latest interview in my Gin and Magic YouTube series championing strong creative women is here! Straight from my home to your eyes + ears, this week featuring the incredible Faye Cornhill!
I've had the good fortune of knowing Faye for some years now, as we have worked together on her SEO for her wedding photography business and now she is a brilliant wedding business coach with a membership club and so.much.good.advice.
On the show we talk about:
the popularity of being a coach
staying on point with your own message
how we can all chill out about the algorithm
how I'd miss my Instagram friends
self care
what our target audience really wants from us (and what they don't care about!)
the excuses we all put in our own way, and so much more.
I really wanted to find out more about her story, how she has grown her business and what she does when she's feeling stuck.
Enjoy and please don’t forget to hit like + subscribe if you enjoy the Gin & Magic videos 🙂
Thanks so much Faye, you were fab!
Faye's official bio:
Faye Cornhill is a multi-business owner whose entrepreneurial experience started over 10 years ago when she turned her back on corporate success to follow her dream of becoming a wedding photographer. Within a year Faye was a fully booked award-winning photographer who was travelling the world to shoot weddings. After rocking the industry, Faye then started to help other wedding entrepreneurs to grow wildly successful and profitable businesses. Faye works 1:1 with clients but also has a signature programme called Booked in 90 Days which has helped hundreds of wedding entrepreneurs. Most recently Faye has launched The Wedding Business Club, a membership for wedding business owners. When Faye isn't coaching clients she is spending time with her husband, two children and labrador at their home in The Chilterns.
So, in light of last Friday's #ThingsILoveFridays post, I'm sharing again here and phew! what a week. So good to reflect, look back on the week and check in with myself. Gives me the opportunity to stop, and be grateful! It sounds pretty out there, but I don’t think we give ourselves enough credit for doing all this hard work, right? Right?!
Speaking to lots of new people on breakthrough calls about my Let’s Get You Found program and enrolling quite a few
Coming ever more into the realisation that with being more visible, you get just as many people not wanting to hear from you as people very much wanting to hear from you, and that doesn't mean they're not your ideal clients, and you don't have to take it personally!
Spending some wonderful time at my soon-to-be new co-working space The Wing (I cried happy tears more than once)
Receiving branding shots taken by the legend John Nassari (Have you considered having branding photos done? It’s wonderful for the confidence)
Devouring some lush Indian sweets from my developer - happy Diwali! (Still on my goals list to be in India for Diwali, as I always missed it in the past when I lived there!)
So, I've decided to bring you all into the fold a little more.
It kicked off last Friday night when I went to see the iconic Jonathan Van Ness, grooming expert from Queer Eye in his stand up show. He was positivity personified and I almost died from smiling so much. But he also shared how his personality radically differs between Instagram and Twitter and it got me thinking even more about how I feel so differently about those two platforms that I'm actually not even active on Twitter really any more, and yet I love dancing on Instagram.
You see, there's something about this time of year and the seasonal change in the air that always makes me think, 'right Mads, gotta change things up', that forces me to look at what's working and what drives conversation.
One such thing that *always* comes up when I meet people who follow me in real life is my #ThingsILoveFridays💖 that I share on Instagram but that I've been thinking I want to be a little more useful and informative rather than just a 'look at me' kinda moment. I started this hashtag over a year ago and it's always been useful for me to focus on what went right in a week rather than what went, shall we say, slightly off plan. I know, there's no such thing as failures, only opportunities, but hey, I'm human too.
So with all this in mind, here's some things I loved this week, that I thought you might too.
A lively debate started off in my Facebook community about whether SEO might be dead. (Newsflash: it isn't and more on this to come)
I've been loving speaking to so many people about my 10 week Let's Get You Found program. We chat on the phone for 45 minutes about their business and they decide if they want to enrol. No pressure, and always helpful.
I've been back to it with responding to pretty much everything with GIFs and Bitmojis to everything. It communicates *so* much without words, and in a world where punctuation can be misconstrued, why not just use GIFs, haha.
I tend to spend like Liberace when sales go remotely well, so reading 33 money lessons from Tarzan Kay was enlightening!
I spent time studying a new launch strategy technique for next time from Lisa Johnson - I've been a member of GSD Society since it began but rarely make time for it. OMG so meaty.
Learning how my Myers-Briggs profile could match to a new style of marketing - I'm an ESFJ. What are you?
Walking around Soho and the West End of London is one of my favourite things to do but I don't do it enough. Just talking with a good friend and telling stories and before we knew it was 10 miles. I hadn't realised how much of a difference it makes tbh.
Whoop! The latest interview in my Gin and Magic YouTube series championing strong creative women is here! Straight from my home to your eyes + ears, this week featuring the fantastically knowledgeable mermaid hair loving Hazel Parsons!
I was keen to get Hazel on the show because she has always been an absolute champion in the wedding industry. Find out how a chance meeting at the Eden Project many moons ago has led to a strong connection and actually this is pretty much Hazel's motto. She is that woman who connects everyone to everyone else they need to know. So if you don't know her yet, you can change that right now.
She's a wedding co-ordinator and a wedding business consultant, so it's no wonder she's a director of the National Association of Wedding Professionals and co-founder with Jenny Wren of Jenny Wren Events & Planning of the South West Wedmeetups.
I wanted to ask her more about her story, how she has grown her business and what she does when she's feeling stuck.
Enjoy and please don’t forget to hit like + subscribe if you enjoy the Gin & Magic videos 🙂
Thanks so much Hazel, you were fab!
Hazel's official bio:
Hazel is well-known as the wedding industry super-connector in the South West of England. Her eponymous award-winning consultancy provides wedding businesses with business coaching, support, targeted marketing, sales and PR.
Her career began over 15 years ago in hospitality where she soon developed an interest in events and particularly weddings, growing that aspect of the business for the 4 and 5 Ssar hotels she worked for and watching them flourish. For the last 5 years, Hazel has successfully set-up, launched and fine-tuned some of the most sought after venues in the South West. She founded the WedMeetup events in 2013 and works as an associate partner of the National Association of Wedding Professionals in London.
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