Business Bites: Do You Take a Break Over the Holidays?

Kat

November 29, 2013

Business Bites: Get Over It and Get It Done

Kat

Lakshal Perera

November 22, 2013

Late one night this week, as I was battling the jet lag and working on blog posts way past 3am, I was simultaneously having an email conversation with Paul Jarvis: web designer, writer and all round awesome dude, If you haven't obsessed over Paul's work yet by the way, where have you been?

Business Bites: What Goal Would You Set Yourself If You Knew You Couldn’t Fail?

Kat

November 15, 2013

With my adventures down under soon drawing to a close, this week I've really started to think about my goals and plans for 2014. While, yes, it may be a little intimating to ponder a whole new set of tasks and things that need to be achieved, it is one of my favourite things to do. Someone in our Auckland workshop this week asked me why it was important to set yourself goals and commented that she was scared to do so in case she didn't achieve them. I told her what I'm telling you now.

Business Bites: Perfect Hotels, Blogger Mansions and Snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef!

Kat

Janneke Storm

November 1, 2013

So usually I open these Business Bites posts with some kind of work-related lesson that I've uncovered over the past seven days... but when you're having so much fun exploring the Queensland coast there's no time for nonsense like that!

Business Bites: Three Ways to Prepare for Time Away From Your Business

Kat

October 25, 2013

I used to make so many excuses for not travelling. "Oh I like being at home", "I've just got too much work to do" and "I hate airports" were my favourite justifications. And then The Blogcademy came crashing into my life avoiding travelling just was not an option! Now, I literally can't get enough. I love love love experiences new places and meeting new people. I'm even starting to weirdly enjoy airports.

Business Bites: Ideas are Pointless

Kat

October 18, 2013

Can I let you in on a secret? Ideas are pointless. How many people do you know that have 'brilliant new ideas' all the time but never actually do anything with them? How many people have you heard say "well, if I did that, I'd do it sooo much better". How many Pinterest boards do we see full of amazing recipe ideas people will never cook or home décor ideas they'll never implement?

Business Bites: Giving Up Guilt

Kat

October 11, 2013

It's the same old song and dance. I got to Australia for our final leg of The Blogcademy 2013 tour in a little under two weeks (cue major freak out!) and so I'm spending most of my waking hours desperately trying to get as much blog content written and scheduled for while I'm away. This is no mean feat when you have at least two blog posts per day for three and a half weeks to do (not to mention the blog posts before I go as well!) ARGH.

Business Bites: Business Plans and Blogger Meets

Kat

October 4, 2013

How am I going to Australia in three weeks?! But more to the point, where the hell is this year going?! So much to do, so little time... Ah sod it, I'm just gonna stop for a while and read some inspirational business articles instead. Who's with me?

Business Bites: Vulnerability and Value

Kat

September 20, 2013

This week I should have been really getting down to the grind and cracking on with my mammoth to do list. There's always something to fix, or perfect or organise isn't there? But despite supposedly having a busy week in the office, I allowed myself to do something I haven't for a long while. I procrastinated.

Business Bites: Bigger Goals and Geekery

Kat

September 13, 2013

Spending two weeks away from my beloved computer doesn't half make me desperate to crack on with work as soon as I get back. It's totally geeky I know, but that's just me! As soon as I'd gotten through all the emails (oh so many emails!) that had build up over the past fortnight I was straight onto plowing through my RSS feed to devour all those business articles that I'd missed.

Business Bites: New Ideas and Brand New Adventures

Kat

August 23, 2013

Business Bites: Eat All The Things!

Kat

August 16, 2013

Business Bites: Making Your Dreams a Reality

Kat

August 9, 2013

I'm not the best housewife but I made this for dinner on Monday night and it was flipping delicious and SO EASY. It look a whole ten minutes. I actually added some chopped up sausages to it after it was cooked too, Gareth is a hardcore carnivore and a vegi dish for dinner probably wouldn't have gone down that well. Oh yeah, I'll be winning that wife of the year award in no time!

Business Bites: Sweet Teeth & Party Time

Kat

August 2, 2013

Considering I don't have a sweet tooth at all, I sure do pin a lot of pretty sweet treats... hum, I wonder what that says about my psyche? I hope you've all had a brilliant and productive week. I'm really looking forward to this weekend because I'm going out - not once but twice! Sheesh, what a party animal. Now excuse me I better go and grab a quick disco nap before the chaos commences!

Business Bites: Ryan Gosling & New Blogger Business Advice

Kat

July 26, 2013

This week has been busy but delightful. I signed off on my two big projects (one of them will be hitting the blog on Monday - watch this very excited space!) and spent an evening with Gareth at a spa (yes, it was just as wonderful as it sounds). Then yesterday I hotfooted it to London to speak at the fabulous Papergirls Paperfest conference followed by one to many cocktails with Debs, Lucy and Abbey. Despite speaking to them all pretty much every day I haven't seen them in forever and it was just beyond magnificent to catch up in person.

Business Bites: Contagion and Controversy

Kat

July 19, 2013

Oh hello there friend, how the devil are you? As usual I've been a busy bee this week. Apart from the obvious admin and writing that comes with this lil job of mine, I've been furiously putting very nearly final touches to two big projects that I've been working on for the past 6 months or so.

Business Bites: Powering Through

Kat

July 12, 2013

It's been one of those treadmill weeks. I feel like I've been pounding one for 8 hours a day, just trying to keep up. If only my story was more literal than metaphorical, I'd be fit as a fiddle! Weeks like this one can feel like they're sent to test us, but really, it's just all part of the ebb and flow of running your own business. Sometimes it's fun and frolics for days, and other times it's all about getting your head down, powering through and doing the very best you can.

Business Bites: Working Like a Machine…

Kat

July 5, 2013

My feet have not touched the ground since I got home on Wednesday night... I literally feel like an old machine cranking back up to full speed... I'll get there but it might take me a few days! I'm not going to lie though, I'm feeling quite overwhelmed and a little stressed out about everything I have on right now, but it's all good, I'm just taking each day hour at a time! Sheesh maybe I need to write a blog post titled 'How to get shit done in no time at all...'

Business Bites: Just Be True to Who You Are

Kat

June 28, 2013

As many of you probably already know, I've been over in my second home, New York City this week. Last weekend we taught a Blogcademy workshop to 30 incredible women in Brooklyn and yesterday we flew to Minneapolis to do this same again this weekend (if you'd like to come along we can totally squeeze you in by the way!)

Business Bites: Motivation

Kat

June 21, 2013

Over brunch in Soho yesterday morning, Gala and I started chatting about motivation. It's funny because I always figured that I was motivated by money, after all isn't that why we run our businesses? But she commented that since I'd arrived in New York, less than 24 hours previously, I'd spoken about two projects that I am currently working on. Of both I'd then gone on to say "yeah but I'm not really doing it for the money. I really enjoy it and think it will make me really stand out from the other wedding blogs..."