In the UK, a business mentor for a creative business can cost anything from nothing, through volunteer schemes, to £500 a session or £3,000 a month for one-to-one support, and group programmes usually run at £200 to £800 a month. The Bright Line, my six month programme for established creative female founders, is £2,970 (as […]

When I started working on how my business is found, on Google and now on AI tools like ChatGPT, the very first thing I discovered was that Google’s own AI still thought I was a florist… which was my previous creative business, several years ago. The most useful thing I’ve found to change that is […]

At the start of this month, Google’s own AI answer described me as a florist. Which I was, for a very long time, and I loved it. But it’s been several years since the business changed direction, and it showed me something really clearly. SEO and GEO are how people find you on Google and […]

Time and headspace When Rosy, founder of the interior design practice Studio Sturt, told me what a typical week looks like for her, she said something I knew straight away deserved its own episode. The procurement side of her business takes up the most time, but the marketing and social media take up the most […]

By Tuesday evening I still hadn’t settled on what this week’s episode was going to be about. Monday and Tuesday had both filled up with projects, I’d been pulled in several directions, and I normally have it recorded by then. So I did something a little different, and went onto Instagram and asked what you’d […]