Interviews with
consultants & coaches
The best way to build a better service business is to ask the people doing it daily and doing it well.
Grow Good Guy, Tim Jones talks about how revenue is critical for positive impact, not underestimating the value of what you know, niching until you’re uneasy, the power of a single offer, and why discipline is his Achilles heel.
Strategist Kate Smith shares advice on working with senior executives, tips for facilitating workshops and helping people have hard conversations, and the similarities between business and improv comedy.
New Zealand’s top speaker coach, Michael Philpott talks authenticity, charisma, finding your tribe, identifying your limiting beliefs, and making your business model work for you.
Social media master Jen Heuett talks starting a business from scratch, how social media is about sales and customer service, cultivating a winning mindset, and why small New Zealand businesses make marketing too hard for themselves.
Niki and Ewan Morrell talk limiting self-belief, sexy business writing, why the way great winemakers do things is the human equivalent of terroir, defining success on their own terms, and why they’re terrible at business development.
We all have at least one bio in our life, probably more. And chances are, that lil sucker could be working harder for you.
There’s a bizarre convention in B2B service world where we don’t talk about pricing up front. But it’s BS. It’s time it stopped. And I’m here to help.
This is what I’d do to market myself if I was starting as a brand-new baby consultant today.
Upgrade your site and grow your business with this step-by-step guide to landing pages that sell.
30 days of April. 30 LinkedIn stories. You in? #linkedinstorychallenge
Answer these questions to build yourself a customer avatar that connects your understanding of your client to the services you offer.
I thought it was high time I debunked some epic codswallop around the use of the swears when you’re wearing your business socks.
Discover the two main barriers that hold people back from posting content on social media, and blow those obstacles up.
How you communicate sets the vibe for how people relate to you. So don’t be holding folks at arms length with old school corporate woffle, jargon, and tortured prose.
Here’s how to nail your client interviews. A guide by a writer who does hundreds of interviews a year (that’s me).