IT Basics for Business

31/01/2024

IMPORTANT: Mailerlite Users!
If you haven't already migrated your free Mailerlite Classic account, it will be closed as of tomorrow 1st Feb.
If you created your account before March 2022 you will have a Classic account.
The quickest fix is to pay for the next month allowing you a month to transfer all your subscribers, forms and automations onto the new version.
If you need help with this, please message me and I'll have a look at what needs migrating on your account and let you know how I can help.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE don't ignore this, you could lose all of your subscribers and forms you've worked years to collect and create!

01/11/2022

What is it that I do? I help technophobes get their content online without spending a fortune. Whether it's a course, a membership or a downloadable I can help.

20/05/2022

I help you pick the right ingredients!

When a client comes to me wanting to get their content to an online audience, they know their end goal, they know it's possible, but they're not really sure how to use the tools to get there.

I teach you to bake your tech cake. What the baking basics are and what works. I help you to understand how the ingredients work together and what quantities you need, so you (and your audience) can really enjoy tasting it when it comes out of the oven!

Tech is just a tool and I help you to pick the ones that are just right for you to make your perfect tech cake!

What ingredient is missing from your tech cake? Have you got a soggy bottom with your tech cake, or maybe it's just not rising. Let me know in the comments.

19/05/2022

From feeling the fool to feeling like Beyonce!

When my clients come to me they are often overwhelmed and confused about what they need or how to get there, but they have some idea of what they want their end result to be.

I see my job as mapping out those tools that are going to support you to get to your end result you want - whether that's just automating a process or getting your course, membership or e-book online.

I break down the steps of how you will use the tech to get there at the pace you need them so you're not overwhelmed and they really make sense to you.

I guide you through which parts you need right now and help you separate the process from the tech.

This allows the overwhelm to dissipate and them to breath a sigh of relief as the anxiety drifts away. What part of getting your content online makes you feel most overwhelmed?

18/05/2022

Does anyone else remember Christmas eve 2020?
Possibly not for the best of reasons.

For me it will always be a memory of my head buzzing with energy and ideas and my skin tingling as I thought about what could be.

My business came about because I kept hearing my entrepreneurial friends getting stuck with the tech. It was stopping them from doing the bits they really enjoy, the bits they are really successful at.

They seemed to be going around the houses to do what seemed to be the simplest of tasks and wasting hours of their time. I wanted to help them. Help them to achieve their dreams and share their skills without that pain.

So Christmas Eve 2020, I sat down and made a deal with myself that if I could write out a month's worth of social media content I would start my new business for technophobe entrepreneurs.

Are you someone who struggles with the tech? Come and join my free Facebook group for lots of hints and tips (link in my bio) or if you're already in there give me an emoji in the comments below.

17/05/2022

I know it can feel like the other way round,
but tech is just a machine, a machine that can't work without your input.

I help you to feel like you are in control. You decide how the tech is going to help you. What is going to achieve what you want to achieve in the easiest way for you.

I'm here to break the tech down so you understand how it can help you, which bits you need to understand and which bits you can put to one side for now until you're ready to use them.

I work with technophobe entrepreneurs to get your content online without spending a fortune. I want the entrepreneurs that I work with to be able to reach a global audience.

There's so many people out there that would benefit from their knowledge and skills.

Getting your content online means you get to serve your clients all over the world at any time of the day without eating into your own time. The best thing about this is that it can all be done without any outlay from you. That's down to the amazing things that tech and the internet can do!

So many people are scared off by the tech though and that's why I'm here. I'm here to reassure you and break things down into easy steps helping you along the way to the tech is working for you rather than you slaving away to understand the tech. What are your goals for reaching your audience in 2022?

16/05/2022

What helps me in my business?
Having the corner pieces of my plan in place, knowing what they are, where they are and how I can buld around them. When you start a jigsaw, the start (for me anyway) is to always find the corners. Following this, I find all the edge pieces to give me a structure to work within and then I refer to the big picture to focus on what I am building.
It's the same for my business. Whenever I go off on a bit of a tangent, I come back to those corner pieces. In my case, keeping it simple and empowering you to be able to do it yourself through teaching and building your confidence.
I then look at the frame I've got joining those corner pieces, are they working and how strong they are and then what I need to bring everything together to build that beautiful picture.
What are your corner pieces and your beautiful picture?

17/04/2022

Happy Easter everyone!

However you're celebrating, or even if you're just taking some time out, I hope it's a good one 😊

05/04/2022

Ambitious, kind, determined.
These are the people that I want to help more of this year. The people who are reaching for the stars so they land on the moon. The ones that know what they are doing can help so many people, if only they can find them and connect with them. The ones that want to find more time in the day so they can help more people.
However, you're blocked by the tech; the tech is a hindrance rather than a help, you're constantly becoming frustrated by the tech rabbit holes they end up in.
If this is you, why not come into my free Facebook group www.fb.com/groups/itbasicsforbusiness

02/03/2022

Who here uses Mailerlite?

Mailerlite is a great email system that is free for the first 1,000 subscribers and 12,000 emails per month.

It's a much more intuitive system than Mailchimp and is about to get even better.

On 22nd March a new version is being released which promises to be faster, even more intuitive and have more advanced functionality available.

For those of you who would rather things didn't change, don't worry, you will still have the option to use the classic view so things still look the same.

I'll keep you posted of the changes as soon as it's released in my Facebook group😊
You can join here https://www.facebook.com/groups/ITBasicsforBusiness/

25/12/2021