by Brook McCarthy | Apr 5, 2013 | Communication, Creativity, Email marketing
My partner (and father of my two children) and I met in Cambodia. I was the tour leader, he was the tourist. You know how it goes. He was at the end of a one-year sojourn around the world and didn’t want to return home and I was at the end of my two-year...
by Brook McCarthy | Mar 5, 2013 | Email marketing, Social media
You may well have started your business through borrowing, barter and begging, and it’s likely been a steep learning curve. The temptation to learn how to do everything you need to do online is tempting. But time is money. So what skills should you develop yourself...
by Brook McCarthy | Feb 13, 2013 | Communication, Email marketing, Social media
Advice abounds on whether or not you should be blogging, emailing your list weekly or monthly, taking out magazine ads in yoga publications or running some smarty-pants collaborative competition on Facebook to grow your tribe. Confused? That’s understandable....
by Brook McCarthy | Dec 12, 2012 | Email marketing
Christmas, without the lead-up, would be just a nice day. Without the Christmas pre-sell running all of December, most of November and into October, we’d simply wake up on December 25, open a few gifts, cook great quantities of food, and be nice to our families. It...
by Brook McCarthy | Aug 3, 2012 | Branding, Communication, Creativity, Email marketing
Communicating value is an essential responsibility of business owners. As much as we may like, our services won’t sell themselves. Learning how to effectively communicate the value of our offerings is a key business skill that we must learn. Communicating value...
by Brook McCarthy | May 8, 2012 | Communication, Creativity, Email marketing
The ‘information revolution’, so keenly anticipated in the 1990s, has reached saturation point. Search engine searches are becoming far less relevant as people seek to make sense of information, to discover new useful insights, and to be inspired and entertained. The...