by Anna Verghese | Thursday, 9, January, 2020 | Networking and Community
Many of us will have written in job applications that we are good ‘working with people’. I know I have. So why is it that the decision to become self-employed often means, for so many of us, working alone? At least in the early days of our businesses. When...
by Anna Verghese | Thursday, 2, January, 2020 | Networking and Community
You’ve got a great business idea. You’ve got an even greater business plan to make it happen. You even have your finances in place to get started. But what about people? Do you have a team in place to support you? Because you will need them – trust...
by Anna Verghese | Thursday, 12, December, 2019 | Networking and Community
We’ve said it many times on this blog – when you run a small business, the people you have around you are crucial. You need people with the expertise you need, but that you don’t have. People to listen and advise you. Others who will hold you...
by Anna Verghese | Wednesday, 21, August, 2019 | Networking and Community
The decision to join a business community (or communities) is an important one. Starting a business is a challenging journey, and we all need a team around us – this is something we talk a lot about on our blog. But joining a business community is one thing....
by Chloe Leibowitz | Wednesday, 7, August, 2019 | Networking and Community
The people we spend time with are a big deal. We’ve blogged about this before, and about how being an entrepreneur can be a long and lonely game. When we decide to pursue our own enterprise, we need to do so, knowing that we have a business support team. We need to...
by Anna Verghese | Monday, 8, July, 2019 | Networking and Community
If you work on your own, how do you describe yourself? Are you simply ‘self-employed’? Or are you some sort of -preneur, whether that be a solopreneur, a mumpreneur, or just an entrepreneur? Anyway, that got me thinking about what it’s like when you...