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My new podcast is now live.

MY NEW PODCAST SHOW IS NOW LIVE… Today I’m officially launching The Business of Being an Author Podcast, a podcast created for authors who want to do more than simply Read More

COMING MAY 2026, The Business of Being an Author

COMING MAY 2026, The Business of Being an Author Most people write a business book with big hopes. Greatly increased credibility, attracting better, higher paying clients and creating more opportunities. Read More

Is 2026 the year you stop thinking about writing a book and actually become an author?

Is 2026 the year you stop thinking about writing a book and actually become an author? This means not just “getting a book done”, but writing a world class book Read More

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A new addition to my team – welcome aboard Carla Schesser

Hello Folks – very happy to say that Carla Schesser, who has been managing the launch of Smallville for me, has expanded her role and now she has also become Read More

BOOKS WITH BITE Episode #1 on Smallville

As I spend most of my life either writing books, helping others to write their book or reading books it seems kind of logical for me to do some book Read More

(VIDEO) The Key to Standing Out from the Crowd

The key to standing out from the crowd is to do the things that others won’t. In life and in business, the most successful individuals are the ones who go Read More

How Much of Your Time Do You Spend Cleaning Up Business Messes That You’ve Created?

From my experience one of the biggest causes of grief in my businesses over the years has been spending way too much time cleaning up the mess because I didn’t Read More

Are your freebies financing other people’s dreams?

When a prospective client asks you to work for free ‘while they get things off the ground’ – alarm bells should go off. In this months Flying Solo column I offer Read More

6 Ways to be Less of a Worrier

For most of my life I was a worrier. I would always worry about what could go wrong, over thinking everything and living in a constant state of stress. The Read More

My next Author 2.0 Bali Retreat is coming up in November 2016.

Following the success of my first Author 2.0 Bali retreat, I’ve had a lot of people wanting to do the next one – so here it is. Coming up in Read More

It’s the end of financial year again, and I think that spells out opportunity.

OK – the dreaded “End of Financial Year” is around the corner, and often in the Small Business world it is considered more of a pain than anything else. Apart Read More

Please stop telling me to slow down and start telling me to speed up!

This week in my Smallville article I make a request – please stop telling me to slow down and start telling me to speed up! READ MORE.

Well we are one month into Smallville…

Well we are one month into Smallville today – and in the first month we have had almost 10,000 unique visitors and well over 30,000 page views, which is pretty Read More

Could you be the client from hell? Well that’s an awkward question….

We all have them, that one client that drives us nuts, the one we can never keep happy and the one that for some reason, never seems to leave. But Read More

Do manners maketh the entrepreneur?

I certainly think they do. For me good manners are definitely good for business, and they provide a great opportunity to stand out from the pack, as generally, I find Read More

Check out my latest Flying Solo articles…..

And if it has been a while since you checked out my Flying Solo column, here are my latest articles. Just click on the picture above or READ MORE HERE.

We all need to get better at “random acts of thank you”

Yep, how good are you at saying ‘thank you’ to your customers? I’ve been talking about this for years, but today I think it is more important than ever. READ Read More

A big question – how are you limiting beliefs impacting your business?

I think they have more affect than we want to admit. Over the years my limiting beliefs caused me a lot of grief. READ MORE.