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Do you feel sure there must be an easier way to increase your income and grow your business?
Attracting enough clients to your business can be tough, especially if you are a business owner or entrepreneur trying to sell your time for money.
Knowing which business model is best, what products to create, what prices to charge and how you go about finding enough clients to give you the financial freedom you want can be an overwhelming.
And it doesn't help being sucked in by all the hundreds of free marketing tools and over-hyped advice on how to create that magical 6-figure business. Some is good – but how do you know what's right for your clients and your business? It can feel like an uphill struggle, can't it?
- You want to know how to have clients come to you, naturally and without having to do the "hard-sell"
- You want to have a business model that generates more income, whilst working less hours
- You want to have your web marketing systems working effortlessly so you can work when you want to
You just don't know how!
Working with Karen Skidmore will show you
Hi, my name is Karen Skidmore. I'm now in my 10th year in business having left my eleven year corporate career in 2004 to start up my own coaching business. I wanted to create a term-time career to fit around my family life and running my own business seemed to be the ideal solution.
But it was hard work. Far harder than I imagined it would be. Those first six months were a roller-coaster ride of success and failure. My confidence levels crashed. And I was making very little in the way of income.
I still remember that dark day that I wanted to give it all up and go back to a PAYE job. But I didn't. I decided I had to turn all my previous knowledge of business and marketing learnt in corporate life on its head and invested my time, money and energy in discovering the right ways to design my business.
And, more importantly, the right ways to design my business so that I could enjoy a constant and consistent flow of income whilst being able to create more time to do what I want.
Over the years I have experienced a real roller-coaster of crap months and big success. It's been a real adventure! But I'm a rather determined person and today I enjoy a flexible and profitable business.
I'm a sought after speaker, published my first book in 2012, ran a hugely successful marketing club and focus my energies working with clients through my Get-It-Done Marketing Programme. And I still balance my time as a mum to two school-age children, whose sports matches I rarely miss, as well as creating time to do "me-stuff" such as tennis, art classes and those all-important girlie lunches and coffee mornings.
I love that I can help other business owners and entrepreneurs like you create the right business model, set up profitable marketing systems and offer the right products so that you can work with more clients, whilst working less hours.
You see, unlike many business mentors and marketing gurus out there, I've got the T-Shirt (well, if truth be told … a whole wardrobe of them!) and I know what it takes to get your business turned around and moving in the right direction.
How will working with Karen make a difference to you and your business?
What we end up working on together is entirely up to you and your present circumstances. That's the great thing about a personalised 1-2-1 programme – there's no fixed agenda to squeeze you in to! You will see below there are options to choose from, but you are an individual and your goals and aspirations are unique to you. Although I have much to share with you, not all of it may be relevant to the path you end up taking and you need clarity and focus on where to make the biggest difference in your business right now, don't you?
- You may be just starting out and need to focus on some "quick-wins" to build both your cash flow and your business confidence.
- You may have been in business for a few years and feel frustrated by your lack of consistent and constant clients.
Whatever stage of business you are at, we can work out what needs working on first and help you achieve a clear action plan to get working on.
Here are just some of the topics that you may want to focus on:
Database Growth & Segmentation
Developing your biggest asset – your mailing list – taking you step-by-step to developing your email marketing, opt-in reports and autoresponder campaigns
Profitable Products
How to create products such as e-books, teleseminars, webinars, membership sites, workshops and group programmes so that you are not restricted to just selling your time by the hour.
Selling Yourself At The Right Price
How to sell yourself effectively, both on an individual basis as well up on the stage presenting at events and conferences, and price yourself at the level that you deserve to be paid
Marketing Strategy
Creating a clear and focused marketing strategy for your business and how to clearly identify your target client
Know Where You Are Headed
Developing a clear business vision and road-mapping your next 12-24 months to make it easier to know which projects to work on next
Knowing Where & What To Start With
Coming up with simple weekly action lists so you know what you should be doing on a daily, weekly and montly basis to win more clients
De-Mystifying The Tech
Getting to grips with social media and integrating it in to your current marketing activities, as well as understanding which web marketing tools to use (and which ones you can ignore!)
How To Hire, Out Source & Build Your Team
How to delegate and make sure you are building a team around you so you can focus your energies on what you are good at ... and not the time-sucking admin
Creating Content & Copy
What blogging and article writing you can do to create a strong online presence, whilst finding your voice and expressing what you stand for.
But remember … there's no magic pill
As much as I would love to help you create the business that you aspire to own, I can't give you a magic pill to swallow. I know you know this deep down, but I wouldn't be able to help you any way unless I am clear that you understand this. There is no easy way to make more money. Passive income only comes from the blood, sweat and tears that go in to creating the systems and products that allow you win more clients, whilst working less hours. Whichever programme we discuss together, you have to be aware that I expect you to take action after and during our sessions together … sometimes massive action that means that you find yourself waaaaay out of your comfort zone. I'll support you. I can be your cheerleader at times. But as much as I can kick your butt in to the right direction, I can't do it for you. That is up to you! So, as long as me and you are clear on that … then let's talk. |
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Your first step is to simply put request a time for us to speak. Yup, we need to arrange a time to speak and discuss your options via the phone or skype.
It's really important that we do this as this will help both of us decide whether we are right for each other. If you prefer to speak to someone before completing the form below, please call my right-hand woman Alexia Padgham on 01428 607745. Alexia has been my PA for more than four years and she can answer most questions you may have.
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Thank you – I have been dwelling on this idea for my training for over a year. Your GID Programme has driven out more clarity of thought on the programme in the 4 or 5 weeks we have been going than in the previous 12 months, never mind all the practical stuff that I have achieved towards actually making it a reality.
I have been unable to sleep with the excitement and awe of how my sales page is developing and somehow me too and my relationship with my business. The GID Marketing Programme has transformed that overwhelm, uncertainty and stuck feelings in to joy, liberation and excitement. Thanks to you and the GID Programme, this whole process and experience has taken me off the country roads driving in a worn out car, to the motorway in an Audi Q5! And for this I am eternally grateful.
I have delivered a campaign that delivered increased sales for a particular product and it has opened up a communication channel with new potential customers that wouldn't have been there otherwise. You have used simple language and given me deliverable actions ... not just a load of jargon!
We've addressed head-on some key weaknesses in our "offer" in an open and constructively critical way ... and came up with some concrete action points. You didn't shirk at all at the ground we had to cover in the four pretty intensive hours. You tell it as it is. Invaluable.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Profitable Products programme, it has exceeded my expectations and given me the courage and tools to take a leap forward with my business, which is exactly what I signed up for.
This programme could not have come at a better time for me and my business. With plenty of encouragement, support, ideas and accountability this programme keeps you on track to get started and start selling your products with confidence.
I love Karen's no nonsense approach, her business experience and inspiring story.
Karen's learning programs are packed with content, and her style of delivery makes it easy to learn, ask questions and engage. The 90 minute class was terrific, and I was thrilled with all of the materials that she provided after the class. Karen is First Class!
Karen is simply fantastic to work with. She's focussed, enthusiastic, energetic and a lovely person. Karen is very genuine and honest. If she doesn't think something will work, she will make positive suggestions on how to improve it. I am looking forward to working with her on an ongoing basis to achieve my other goals. With Karen I know my chances are significantly higher.
I used Karen Skidmore to help me create a successful and profitable web business, with as many tasks as possible automated. Her skill in breaking down what seems to be a rather daunting task into extremely manageable bite size chunks. As a result you finish the session confident that it's all very manageable. She has helped me formulate my long term goal and then get a monthly plan to move forwards towards achieving it.
I came to Karen because I felt I needed serious direction for my marketing efforts. What I liked best about working with you was your directness; your perspicacity about what is going and the clarity with which you give advice. Your advice is to the point which means you are not wasting people's time!


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South African Design at West Elm
I love that West Elm has partnered with Elle Décor magazine to bring South African design to America with sixteen lovely collaborations with artists and designers who live and work there. I love this! You can catch a peek here of the collection – everything is simply divine.
I particularly love the elephant lamp by Shirley Fintz and the ceramics from Gemma Orkin who describes her style as, "Happy and uncomplicated." So, so pretty, right???
What do you think of these gorgeous, colorful designs? I am smitten!
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I love the ceramics, so happy and vibrant!!!
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Amazing. I brought home a ceramic giraffe from Shirley 4 years ago. I cherish it still.
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Oh wow, now I'm going to have even more things to buy from West Elm.
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holey moley I WANT those patterned plates & cups from Potters Workshop!!
Colour and pattern ~ two of my most favourite things :)
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I was lucky enough to live in South Africa for two years and brought home lots of furniture. The chairs with the riempies (leather straps) are iconic in southern Africa. Makes me homesick for my second home!
Congrats to West Elm for promoting South African design!
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Gotta love it!
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That elephant lamp is too cool! Way to go West Elm – such a wonderful idea!
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The lamp is fantastic! Love the ceramics! Absolutly pretty! Thank you for sharing, Holly!
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I'm loving West Elm's collaborations! I am in love with the elephant lamp! I really don't need any more elephants at home, but I might have space for that lamp!
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Love the ceramics. The colours are bright and bold. Thanks for sharing
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I live in Cape Town, South Africa, and Gemma Orkin's ceramic bird plate series decorates an entire wall of my local coffee shop… a beautiful space to enjoy a latte!
Very proud to see our local talent being recognised abroad!
thank you for sharing this, Holly. xo
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I grew up in Tanzania (East Africa) and am very pleased to see fellow African artists gettign the recognition they deserve. So much talent here. The elephant lamp is my fave too.
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Oh I just have the biggest smile on my face after looking at this post, Holly. So gorgeous. I learned from a smart woman named Holly Becker to take the time to really look at design that touches us and find out what exactly it is that gets us so excited. I am going to do that right now. Thank you for this post that gave me goosebumps!
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The South African design scene ROCKS! Married to a South African I've been coming to Cape Town for the past 24 years, and have seen huge chance during the past 5 years South African and Cape Town in particular is now cutting edge and very exciting! If you haven't been there Holly I would suggest you go and check it out! You will love it!
Thank you Holly for showcasing the amazing design talent coming out of South Africa – my home!! I was recently in a "Mud" shop in a small country town and saw a few of the spectacular chandeliers that you covet – made me think of you and, having now seen them close-up, I realise why you want one!! (and I had to explain why they are so expensive to my husband – the amount of craftsmanship going into them is astounding!!)
My husband is South African so we have a lot of unique art and artifacts in our home. I love to see west elm branching out and showcasing unique patterns, textures and and colour combinations from artist.
Love!P.s Those ceramic plates are beautiful! I want one of each!
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I like that this gives the pieces more of a story behind them, and I'm a big fan of the collaboration. I think they do a lot with 20 x 200 as well.
And those furniture pieces that are paint dipped with bare feet? Wow.
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I love their products and the ethnic character. It's so good to see so many smaller designers emerging from different parts of the world. Inspiration just keeps coming.
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So pleased to see you celebrating South African style Holly. I have a Gemma Orkin vessel next to my bed that is crammed with pens – i love its irregularity. We have so many talented here in SA and it's great to have companies like West Elm appreciate them too. V x
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June 11th, 2012 at 8:23pmHurrah! I'm proudly South African and so excited to see how our design is slowly infiltrating the rest of the world. For two long we relied on design influences coming into the country; SA designers have matured and, with the confidence gained, now realise that they can stand tall amongst their international peers.
Fantastic, glad to see my home country being so well promoted :)
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gorgeous items.. i can't decide what I love more.
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The Potter Ware dishes? Gorgeous! Those colors are just so vivid, and the patterns could make even the simplest of foods look gourmet. I. Want.
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Lovely plates. Perfect for summer!
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I love all the plates mixed and matched together.
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Love the whimsy!!! So cute and fun!
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Just lovely! We spent a year in South Africa and I love this modern twist on traditional African patterns and ideas.
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Oh, this is lovely. I just love the ceramics and the white chairs. {heart}
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Love the ceramics!
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Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
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Where can I find the Stardust sword?
I want a stronger sword.
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You're going to only find that sword in Rank 10 chests (so at the lower levels of high high level grottoes). This is the case for pretty much all of the "ultimate" weapons.
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Ominous rumblings from Lesotho army ahead of election
The nerves of the coup-prone mountain kingdom are frayed as a SADC-monitored poll nears to return it to political stability.
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The ANC has vowed to paint the Mother City black, green and gold when it celebrates its 103rd birthday on Saturday at the Cape Town Stadium.
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The EFF says that Jacob Zuma, Gwede Mantashe and Cyril Ramaphosa all "hide behind black economic empowerment, a posture for capitalism".
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The Oligopoly Supermarket Industry In The Uk Economics Essay
Supermarket is a diversification industry. Most markets are oligopolistic. Especially, Britannic supermarket industry is belongs to the oligopoly market. In generally, Tesco, Asda and M&S, these companies are the best examples in this area. Tesco has the biggest market in the UK, because they have developed a series of store models to supply the different needs of different customers. For example, they have Tesco Express, Tesco Metro stores, Tesco Superstores and Extra Hypermarkets. Both of these are according to customer needs change constantly adjust their offer of goods and sales practices. Furthermore, according to most markets could be said to be imperfectly competitive. A few are monopolistically competitive but the majority is concentrated markets, dominated by a few suppliers (Economics: 322). Moreover, oligopoly market structures are two key points. One is there are few firms exists in this market and they are interdependent. Such as, Tesco and Asda are belongs to a same company, but they have their own business model. From this, it reflects that this is a few companies exist in the market system, and rely on each other. Another one is there are barriers to entry to the industry. It means that if some companies want to enter this market, it is definitely not an easy thing. And they will reduce the market share of the few large producers, if they successfully joined into this industry. Also, non-price competition, price rigidity, L-shaped average cost curves and collusion are oligopolistic market conduct. In short, both advantages and disadvantages of the market structure for consumers will be show in this essay.
Price rigidity& kinked demand curved
In general, oligopoly is a good market system. Its price is rigidity. This can be seen the few companies had reached an agreement of the price, and then the price would not have huge fluctuations. So it can ensure that the interests of consumers. The reason of why Tesco sales in the Britain ranked first, because its price system. There are four different ways. They are promotion, low price, member price and guaranteed low-cost. Promotion, which put a slogan by 'a different price-cutting promotions launched and surprises every day. Buy many more than the province.' However, there is a time-limited promotion. Therefore, some consumers so as not to lose out on the product, then they will purchase it. Low price, who promised to sell all year around the low price, this is allowing consumers to buy inexpensive goods. Member price, it means that spending a dollar value accumulated to give something back cash coupons, and exclusive members of the lowest. Guaranteed low-price, which is a means of competition in the market. They always put the product pricing to a minimum, and then sold to consumers.
As mentioned above, there is no single theory of oligopoly. The two that are most frequently discussed, however, are the kinked-demand theory and the cartel theory. The kinked-demand theory is illustrated in Figure 2 and applies to oligopolistic markets where each firm sells a differentiated product. According to the kinked-demand theory, each firm will face two market demand curves for its product. At high prices, the firm faces the relatively elastic market demand curve, labeled MD1 in Figure 2(Cliffs Note, 2010).
Figure 2Profit maximization by an oligopolistic firm facing a kinked-demand curve
Corresponding to MD1 is the marginal revenue curve labeled MR1. At low prices, the firm faces the relatively inelastic market demand curve labeled MD2. Corresponding to MD2 is the marginal revenue curve labeled MR2 (Cliffs Note, 2010).
The two market demand curves intersect at point b. Therefore, the market demand curve that the oligopolistic actually faces is the kinked-demand curve, labeled abc. Similarly, the marginal revenue that the oligopolistic actually receives is represented by the marginal revenue curve labeled adef. The oligopolistic maximizes profits by equating marginal revenue with marginal cost, which results in an equilibrium output of Q units and an equilibrium price of P(Cliffs Note, 2010).
To sum up, the oligopoly market features include supply in the industry just have few firms and they must be interdependent. Nevertheless, the main supermarkets are dominated by Tesco, Asda and M&S. With the researching of the supermarket industry, it seems too many benefits for the consumers. For instance, some of the price systems which are promotion, low price, member price and guaranteed low-cost are benefits for the customer. All in all, this market structure of the oligopoly is a good form in UK.
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Chet Strange for The Republic / David Shroyer, a janitor at Richards Elementary School, makes his nightly rounds Jan. 9. Part of a school district-wide initiative to curb energy consumption, janitors now only leave lights on in the immediate areas they are cleaning, rather than leaving all lights on in the school while they clean.
Energy-saving initiatives are part of the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. curriculum to teach students to be environmentally friendly adults. It seems that students also could learn in a math, science or business class about the financial impact those initiatives can have.
BCSC has reduced its annual energy bill by more than $1 million and reduced its energy consumption by more than 30 percent during the past five years. That is quite an achievement. Here is what is really important:
"Every dollar I save on heat is one that can be used on instruction," said Charlie McCoy, BCSC energy manager.
That should be sweet music to the ears of taxpayers. And it's validation of the school district's energy-management program to redirect taxpayer dollars into the classroom.
The energy and cost savings have been achieved by some simple tips passed along to teachers and custodians, and some physical improvements at various school buildings in the district. For example, some tips teachers have been asked to follow include:
Custodians have been asked to turn on lights only as needed when cleaning.
New heating, ventilation and air conditioning controls at Southside and Lincoln elementary schools have resulted in
25 percent to 30 percent reductions in energy consumption.
Recent renovations at Columbus North High School included new heating and cooling systems, and occupancy sensors to turn lights on and off automatically. Energy usage at the school dropped 22 percent despite the addition of 125,000 square feet.
While those are significant strides, school officials have planned additional energy-saving improvements to school buildings. Those include:
The school district has been rightfully honored for its environmentally and taxpayer friendly initiatives. Duke Energy has named BCSC a Power Partner for innovation in smart energy usage. And if you think about it, the school district has been teaching by example.
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Call for Proposals: Small Grants for Research Using PSID Data. Due March 2, 2015
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Mon, March 9
Luigi Pistaferri, Consumption Inequality and Family Labor Supply
a PSC Research Project
Investigators: Charles C. Brown, Katherine A. McGonagle, Narayan Sastry, Robert F. Schoeni, Frank P. Stafford
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is the world's longest running household panel survey. With more than 40 years of data on the same families and their descendants, the PSID is a cornerstone of the data infrastructure for empirically based social science research in the U.S. and the world. With its long-term measures of economic and social wellbeing, the study has allowed researchers and policy analysts to investigate the dynamism inherent in social and behavioral processes. The long panel, genealogical design, and broad content provide scientists a unique and powerful opportunity to study evolution and change within the same families over decades.
The impact of the PSID is substantial:
- 3,154 peer-reviewed publications have been based on PSID data.
- The annual number of such publications is increasing, with a new publication every 2.5 days.
- Over 20 dissertations are written using the PSID each year.
- In 2010, 24,749 data extracts were downloaded by 2,656 different users.
- There were 4.9 million hits to the PSID website in 2010 by 30,674 unique IP addresses.
- At least 250 grants issued by NIH or NSF have utilized the PSID.
- At least nine federal agencies utilize the PSID to fulfill their missions.
- NSF named PSID one of its 60 most significant discoveries in its first 60 years of existence.
Building on this success, three primary activities are proposed for the next five-year funding cycle: designing the PSID questionnaire content to facilitate the investigation of current and emerging scientific and policy questions; collecting the 2013 (N = 9,660) and 2015 (N=10,143) waves of the main interview; processing and distributing the data in user-friendly formats, as well as providing help to researchers to facilitate their use of the data.
Funding: | National Science Foundation (1157698) |
Funding Period: 01/01/2013 to 12/31/2016