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Right, it's Friday again. 🎉I'm convinced the weeks are getting shorter. Either that or I'm getting older. Probably both,...
09/10/2026

Right, it's Friday again. 🎉

I'm convinced the weeks are getting shorter. Either that or I'm getting older. Probably both, and I'm absolutely fine with that. 😄

What a week though. We've been welcoming new clients into the FloweMedia family - always one of my favourite things. That moment when someone goes from "I think I need some help" to "right, let's do this" - brilliant every single time.

We also caught up with some of our existing clients this week, which I always love. One of them has had almost 500 enquiries through their new website - in just five months. Five months! That's not a fluke, that's a website that's actually working. Very chuffed for them. 🙌

We've squeezed in some training on our systems too, and we've been out networking - York with the wonderful Bob Club crew earlier this week, and Scarborough this morning. Brilliant people, great conversations, and at least one too many coffees. ☕

Fridays used to feel like they took forever to arrive. Now they appear before I've even had chance to write Monday's to-do list. Funny how that works.

Hope yours has been a good one. Enjoy the weekend - you've earned it! 😊

💬 How's your week been? Drop it in the comments - the good, the chaotic, all of it!

We flew home from Munich on Sunday, still carrying the feeling.My eldest son got married at the weekend. And if you've e...
02/10/2026

We flew home from Munich on Sunday, still carrying the feeling.

My eldest son got married at the weekend. And if you've ever watched your child marry someone wonderful - surrounded by people who came from every corner of their lives - you'll know the exact feeling I mean. New faces becoming familiar ones by the second glass. Speeches that were too short and too long at the same time. A room so full of love it was almost noisy with it.

Somewhere in all of it, something quietly shifts. You remember what actually matters.

Then this morning, one word stopped me.

"We."

Two letters. That's it. But say it out loud and notice what it does. It isn't just a pronoun. It's a promise. We're in this together. We've got you. You're not doing this alone.

I've been turning it over ever since - because "we" is everywhere in my life right now.

There's the obvious one. Jon. James. Me. Over 13 years of building something together. Arguing about the right way to do things (they're usually wrong, by the way 😄). Having each other's backs through the hard patches. And - more often than I expected when we started - being genuinely proud of what we've made together. That "we" runs deep.

Then there's the "we" with our clients. The ones who don't just use FloweMedia - they work with us. That small difference means everything to me.

And the wedding "we." The brand new one. A room full of people from different countries, different backgrounds, different stories - all there for the same reason. All, just for one afternoon, the same "we."

The strongest businesses - like the strongest families - aren't built on one person carrying everything. They're built on a genuine we. People who show up. Who notice when someone's quiet. Who celebrate the wins and don't disappear when things get hard.

It's Friday. You've had a week. A full one, I'd guess.

So who's in your "we" today? 💙

Jon. James. If you're reading this - thank you. For all of it. 🥂

She is CERTAIN she has disappeared. 😂Those little feet at the bottom of my kitchen cupboard belong to my three-year-old ...
02/10/2026

She is CERTAIN she has disappeared. 😂

Those little feet at the bottom of my kitchen cupboard belong to my three-year-old granddaughter - if you've been following along, you'll have seen her before. Still hiding. Still completely visible.

From her point of view - gone. Vanished. Victory.

From mine - I can see everything.

I shared this with a client recently and she said "oh god, that's us isn't it."

She meant it. Her business had a website, a page, a Google listing. From where she was standing - covered. Present. Doing the thing.

From where her customers were standing - missed calls, unanswered messages, a listing that hadn't been touched in two years.

The feet were showing the whole time. She just couldn't see them from inside the cupboard.

The best bit? Once she could see what her customers were seeing, it didn't take long to sort.

If you've ever wondered what your business actually looks like from the outside - drop me a message. Honest, no-pressure chat. That's it.

The quote went out.Good price. Good job. You thought they seemed interested.Then nothing.Most people do one of three thi...
02/10/2026

The quote went out.

Good price. Good job. You thought they seemed interested.

Then nothing.

Most people do one of three things at this point. Chase it and feel immediately pushy. Wait a bit longer and tell themselves the customer will come back if they want to. Or quietly write it off and move on.

What almost nobody does is send a follow-up that's warm, confident, and actually moves things forward. Not because they don't know they should. Because they don't know what to write without it sounding desperate or awkward.

That follow-up is one of the most commercially important emails in any service business. And it's one of the hardest to get right - because this is your work, your price, and it feels personal.

How do you handle it? Something that works, or one you've been quietly avoiding? Drop a comment.

Next week we're talking about where the revenue actually lives in most service businesses. And it's not always where people expect to find it.

Most business owners who aren't running ads aren't against the idea.They just can't write the ad.A website can be vague....
01/10/2026

Most business owners who aren't running ads aren't against the idea.

They just can't write the ad.

A website can be vague. A social post can be mediocre. An ad has to earn its money from the first line - or it just costs you something and leaves nothing behind. That's a different kind of pressure to anything else you write for the business.

So it sits on the list. The idea's there. Sometimes the budget's there. But the copy isn't, and without that, nothing goes live.

Lewis Garth at Lawn Force sorted this. Once the ad actually sounded like him - not like a generic lawncare ad, but like Lewis, talking about who he helps and how - something changed. Customers turned up to a quote already trusting him. The ad had done that before he even arrived.

That's what the right copy does. You don't have to be a good writer to get there. You just need the right words - in your voice, talking to the right person.

Is this one that's been sitting on your list? Drop a comment - I'd love to know what's held you back.

Tomorrow - the follow-up email. The one you should send after every quote goes out, and never quite know what to say.

There's a version of content most business owners have posted at some point.You see something a competitor puts out. It ...
30/09/2026

There's a version of content most business owners have posted at some point.

You see something a competitor puts out. It seems to be getting some traction. You do a version of it - same format, different words, similar angle. Post it. Move on.

It's not dishonest. It's what happens when you know content needs to go out but you're not sure what yours should actually look like. So someone else's becomes the template.

The problem is it doesn't sound like you. It sounds like the industry. And the person scrolling past it has no reason to stop, because they've already seen something like it.

The content that actually builds trust and recognition is the stuff that couldn't have come from anyone else. Your specific take. The honest observation your competitor wouldn't post. The thing you know about your customers that nobody else in your space has said out loud.

Harder to write. Worth it.

Does this land? Drop a comment - I'd love to know whether your content feels like yours or whether you're still figuring out what that even means.

Thursday: the writing problem that stops people running ads. Even when they know ads are the right next step.

Will Barker ran a holiday park in Yorkshire. He's dyslexic. Writing anything professional had always felt impossible.For...
29/09/2026

Will Barker ran a holiday park in Yorkshire. He's dyslexic. Writing anything professional had always felt impossible.

For years that meant no blogs, rough social posts, and anything formal taking hours to produce and still not coming out right.

Then things shifted. He built 3,400 guest contacts, collected 540 Google reviews, published blogs that moved Kiplin Lodge Park up the search rankings, and set up systems that meant guests heard from him professionally - even when he was out fixing something on site.

Earlier this year, he sold the business.

Before he left, he wrote to the FloweMedia team. Not because he needed to. Because he wanted to make sure something was said.

"I truly believe that without your continued support, Kiplin Lodge Park would not have been in the position it was to achieve this sale. The digital presence you built and the systems you implemented made an enormous difference to how the business operated and presented itself."

The reviews, the content, the systems running in the background - they didn't just make the business easier to run. They made it sellable. A buyer could see what had been built, trust it, and take it over.

That's what the right infrastructure does. It stops the business depending entirely on one person being present.

Will started with a writing wall and ended with a sale.

Does this resonate? Drop a comment - I'd love to hear where writing holds your business back.

Tomorrow: the content you post because competitors post it. Not because it's actually you.

You know exactly what you want to say.You've explained it in person a hundred times and it lands perfectly. But the mome...
28/09/2026

You know exactly what you want to say.

You've explained it in person a hundred times and it lands perfectly. But the moment you sit down to write it - a post, an email, a services page - nothing comes out right. The cursor blinks. You rewrite the first sentence four times. Close the laptop. Tell yourself you'll do it later.

Later doesn't come.

Matt Steadman, a refrigeration engineer in Yorkshire, put it simply: "I'm not somebody who can even compose an email sometimes. Something diplomatic takes me a while because I put too much thought into it."

That's not a lack of knowledge. It's the gap between knowing something and being able to write it down in your own voice - and it catches almost everyone.

Where does it hit you hardest? Social posts, emails, website copy, proposals? Drop it in the comments.

Friday we're talking about something that makes this even worse - when you do write something, read it back, and it sounds nothing like you.

You posted. It got three likes. You moved on and quietly decided social media probably just doesn't work for your kind o...
25/09/2026

You posted. It got three likes. You moved on and quietly decided social media probably just doesn't work for your kind of business.

It does, though. It just has to be talking to the right person about the right thing - rather than describing your business at people who weren't really listening.

The posts that get ignored usually have one thing in common: they're written from the inside out. Here's what we do. Here's what we offer. Here's how good we are. And the person scrolling reads it and thinks: fine, but what's that got to do with me?

The ones that land are written the other way around. Start with what the reader is feeling. The problem they haven't solved. The thing they've been trying to figure out. Then, quietly, show them you understand it.

That's a different skill to just posting consistently. And it's one most business owners were never shown.

Does this land? Drop a comment - I'm curious whether social content is something you've cracked or something you've quietly written off.

Next week we're talking about the writing wall. That moment when you sit down to write something for your business and absolutely nothing comes out right. Monday.

You handed the marketing over. Which was the right call.Then the posts started going out and something felt slightly off...
24/09/2026

You handed the marketing over. Which was the right call.

Then the posts started going out and something felt slightly off.

Not dramatically wrong. Just - not quite you. The words a bit too polished. The tone a bit too corporate. Accurate, but not how you'd actually say it.

Nikki Bowling described what it felt like when that finally changed: "Written as if by me, in a fraction of the time." Not written for her. Written as her. Most people don't know that's even possible - so they accept the slightly-off version as just how it works.

If the content going out under your name doesn't sound quite like you, what's the one word you'd use to describe the gap?

Drop it in the comments - I'm genuinely curious whether people land on the same words.

Tomorrow: the posts that go out and get ignored. Not because the business is bad. Because the content is.

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