How To Host A Blog Challenge…Lessons Learned

Earlier this year readers of Better Business Better Life participated in the Small Business Olympics and Blogging Olympic challenges. Having the group all working together on various challenges was great fun and helped each person generate quality content for their brands.

As host of the challenges it was a fantastic learning experience with lots of takeaways to consider and implement in the future. The challenges also generated increased traffic for the blog and more than doubled subscribers to the Better Business Better Life Legends List.

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. ”  Eleanor Roosevelt

In the interest of shared learning and helping you avoid my mistakes let’s explore what worked, what didn’t work and what I’d do differently in the future. Continue reading


Share Your Three Favourite Blogs – Blog Linky

Last week on Better Business Better Life we celebrated super helpful plugins with our linky and in the comments.

Thank you to EVERYONE who joined in!

Many of the suggestions were around backing up your content and encouraging engagement of readers (so proud *winks*). Then there was Michelle who couldn’t choose just one plugin…we won’t hold it against her.

The plugins suggested were: Continue reading


Share Your Favourite Website Plugin – Blog Linky

Last week on Better Business Better Life we celebrated wonderful customer service experiences with our linky and in the comments.

Thank you to EVERYONE who joined in!

It just goes to show a lot of businesses are offering fantastic experiences and plenty of customer love.

As Carly Findlay from Tune Into Radio Carly shared:

Often we are quick to use social media to criticise businesses, but we should be just as quick to praise them!

Couldn’t have said it better Carly! Thank you!

Here are a couple of favourites then you’ll find out the linky topic for this week! Continue reading


Are You Wasting Your Business Funds?

Everyone wants to increase business revenue. I’m working hard for it and I’m sure you are too.

There are plenty of ways to increase your income such as:
• Diversify revenue streams
• Sell more to your existing clients
• Increase prices

All perfectly valid ideas and strategies you should consider.

But what if you could increase your profit by $1,200 a year within five minutes?

Really five minutes = extra $1,200 profit per annum?

Not a bad return right? Continue reading


Does Business Planning Make You Have Kittens?

Today’s post is by my gorgeous friend and creative business wizard Elle Roberts from Studio Exsto. After connecting online I was honoured to meet Elle in person last September when I attended her inaugural Artful Business Conference. Enjoy!

Business planning is simple and we all have the skills required to do.

What is not simple is getting over the fear of getting it wrong, getting overwhelmed by the process or getting confused by the incredible amount of mis-information and jargon available out there in the inter-webs.

If you can just make all that noise be quiet and listen your own voice, business planning is simple.

It is about deciding what you want most for your business – you know those crazy pie in the sky dreams. Taking that dream and figuring out what needs to happen to get you there, then taking those things and working out what actions you take can to make sure they happen.

WHAT CAN I DO TODAY FOR MY DREAMS OF TOMORROW? Continue reading


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