Entrepreneurship

Creating content upgrades, tool-kits and resources for your audience is one of the most powerful ways to grow your audience. Why aren’t you doing it?!

In a world where everyone professes to be an entrepreneur, here’s an honest look at what that REALLY means & where we should all be focussing our attention.

This is a post that I originally authored for New Media Europe, check out their blog and the other top notch content they put out! — “Startup”. The word on everyone’s lips these days, it seems. It’s a cool word; a buzz word; a bit of jargon or lingo for the modern day yuppies like…

This is a post that I originally wrote for and published at Entrepreneur.com. I remember the day well. July 14, 2009 — less than one year after I set up my first real business, I quit. Nine months earlier, I’d set up my design and digital business by recruiting a developer and investing in some office space in…

This post is a piece I originally wrote for Entrepreneur.com, where it was published first. Years ago, when my design agency was young I used to go to sleep of an evening worried about the first hour of the next morning. Being a growing and increasingly busy agency whilst trying to manage safe team growth and internal…

There’s honestly no better feeling than turning out for your first day “at work” when you begin working for yourself. Whether that’s unlocking an office door on that morning for yourself, rocking up to a hot desk or co-working space or sitting at your dining table with your laptop and notebook ready to change the…

I’ve worked in the digital industry since 2001, and it is a wondrous place. I struggle to think of any other industry where opportunities exist in such abundance; where our level of involvement is driven wholly by us; where we have such a chance to shape the future of the industry through collaboration with peers…

The word “pivot” comes with a certain charm to it and at times, a certain mystique that alludes to a big, grand gesture for a startup or entrepreneur who has made a bold move into something fresh. In fact, the word “pivot” is often used completely out of context, too. I’ve done it myself –…