IT Basics for Business

IMPORTANT: Mailerlite Users!
If you haven't already migrated your free Mailerlite Classic account, it will be closed as of tomorrow 1st Feb.
If you created your account before March 2022 you will have a Classic account.
The quickest fix is to pay for the next month allowing you a month to transfer all your subscribers, forms and automations onto the new version.
If you need help with this, please message me and I'll have a look at what needs migrating on your account and let you know how I can help.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE don't ignore this, you could lose all of your subscribers and forms you've worked years to collect and create!

I help you pick the right ingredients!

When a client comes to me wanting to get their content to an online audience, they know their end goal, they know it's possible, but they're not really sure how to use the tools to get there.

I teach you to bake your tech cake. What the baking basics are and what works. I help you to understand how the ingredients work together and what quantities you need, so you (and your audience) can really enjoy tasting it when it comes out of the oven!

Tech is just a tool and I help you to pick the ones that are just right for you to make your perfect tech cake!

What ingredient is missing from your tech cake? Have you got a soggy bottom with your tech cake, or maybe it's just not rising. Let me know in the comments.

From feeling the fool to feeling like Beyonce!

When my clients come to me they are often overwhelmed and confused about what they need or how to get there, but they have some idea of what they want their end result to be.

I see my job as mapping out those tools that are going to support you to get to your end result you want - whether that's just automating a process or getting your course, membership or e-book online.

I break down the steps of how you will use the tech to get there at the pace you need them so you're not overwhelmed and they really make sense to you.

I guide you through which parts you need right now and help you separate the process from the tech.

This allows the overwhelm to dissipate and them to breath a sigh of relief as the anxiety drifts away. What part of getting your content online makes you feel most overwhelmed?

Does anyone else remember Christmas eve 2020?
Possibly not for the best of reasons.

For me it will always be a memory of my head buzzing with energy and ideas and my skin tingling as I thought about what could be.

My business came about because I kept hearing my entrepreneurial friends getting stuck with the tech. It was stopping them from doing the bits they really enjoy, the bits they are really successful at.

They seemed to be going around the houses to do what seemed to be the simplest of tasks and wasting hours of their time. I wanted to help them. Help them to achieve their dreams and share their skills without that pain.

So Christmas Eve 2020, I sat down and made a deal with myself that if I could write out a month's worth of social media content I would start my new business for technophobe entrepreneurs.

Are you someone who struggles with the tech? Come and join my free Facebook group for lots of hints and tips (link in my bio) or if you're already in there give me an emoji in the comments below.

I know it can feel like the other way round,
but tech is just a machine, a machine that can't work without your input.

I help you to feel like you are in control. You decide how the tech is going to help you. What is going to achieve what you want to achieve in the easiest way for you.

I'm here to break the tech down so you understand how it can help you, which bits you need to understand and which bits you can put to one side for now until you're ready to use them.

I work with technophobe entrepreneurs to get your content online without spending a fortune. I want the entrepreneurs that I work with to be able to reach a global audience.

There's so many people out there that would benefit from their knowledge and skills.

Getting your content online means you get to serve your clients all over the world at any time of the day without eating into your own time. The best thing about this is that it can all be done without any outlay from you. That's down to the amazing things that tech and the internet can do!

So many people are scared off by the tech though and that's why I'm here. I'm here to reassure you and break things down into easy steps helping you along the way to the tech is working for you rather than you slaving away to understand the tech. What are your goals for reaching your audience in 2022?

What helps me in my business?
Having the corner pieces of my plan in place, knowing what they are, where they are and how I can buld around them. When you start a jigsaw, the start (for me anyway) is to always find the corners. Following this, I find all the edge pieces to give me a structure to work within and then I refer to the big picture to focus on what I am building.
It's the same for my business. Whenever I go off on a bit of a tangent, I come back to those corner pieces. In my case, keeping it simple and empowering you to be able to do it yourself through teaching and building your confidence.
I then look at the frame I've got joining those corner pieces, are they working and how strong they are and then what I need to bring everything together to build that beautiful picture.
What are your corner pieces and your beautiful picture?

Happy Easter everyone!

However you're celebrating, or even if you're just taking some time out, I hope it's a good one 😊

Ambitious, kind, determined.
These are the people that I want to help more of this year. The people who are reaching for the stars so they land on the moon. The ones that know what they are doing can help so many people, if only they can find them and connect with them. The ones that want to find more time in the day so they can help more people.
However, you're blocked by the tech; the tech is a hindrance rather than a help, you're constantly becoming frustrated by the tech rabbit holes they end up in.
If this is you, why not come into my free Facebook group www.fb.com/groups/itbasicsforbusiness

Who here uses Mailerlite?

Mailerlite is a great email system that is free for the first 1,000 subscribers and 12,000 emails per month.

It's a much more intuitive system than Mailchimp and is about to get even better.

On 22nd March a new version is being released which promises to be faster, even more intuitive and have more advanced functionality available.

For those of you who would rather things didn't change, don't worry, you will still have the option to use the classic view so things still look the same.

I'll keep you posted of the changes as soon as it's released in my Facebook group😊
You can join here https://www.facebook.com/groups/ITBasicsforBusiness/

Where do you believe you belong? Do you need to upgrade that belief?

Last night, I watched the Queen of Kwame. It's about a girl growing up in the slums of Uganda who becomes a chess master.

When she beats other children who have food on the table and a wardrobe full of clothes she believes they let her win. How could a girl from the slums be more intelligent than those who are at school getting an education?

She goes on to become a chess master, but not before overcoming her mindset that people like her don't belong in that arena.

Where do you believe you belong? Is it based on your past & others' old beliefs or based on what you want and can achieve in your future? Is it time to up-level your beliefs?

What kind of people do I like to help?

I enjoy helping those people who are passionate about their business, clear on how they can help their potential client, and excited about the potential impact what they do could have on the world.

Entrepreneurs who love connecting with people in the real world, but when it comes to doing things online it just all seems too overwhelming.

They know that if they can get their content out to more people in the world it’s going to make so much of a difference.

However they're confused by all the jargon, the different options and all the steps they need to complete to get there. They’re just not sure where to start and the fog of confusion and overwhelm is stopping them from making a start on it.

I help them to simplify the steps, give them a clear path to focus on to get to where they want to be and reach all those people to make that impact.

Do you identify with this person?

Getting excited about using my new ergonomic equipment to alleviate my neck and shoulder pain.

So far I've got an ergonomic mouse and keyboard set so my elbow's don't have to be forced in, that also comes with a separate keypad that I'm in the process of getting used to. This afternoon my armrests arrived sooner than anticipated so my arms and shoulders can be more relaxed. If been productively practising doing the armrest waltzer, because that's got to be done, right?!?!

Check out my new reel showing you all the bits and pieces so far!!

How to make the most of your Facebook profile 10am
Who's joining me in Connect with your Clients Challenge Group?

I'm really excited to announce my upcoming challenge to take you from Completely Confused to Calm Clarity when it comes to what tech you need to deliver your content online.
So if you are you an entrepreneur/business owner who is:
😭 Struggling with the tech?
🥺 Not sure how to build your audience online?
🤯 Thinking what on earth is a sales funnel?
😟 Not sure how to find the clients you really want to serve?
Sign up here https://www.subscribepage.com/itb4b_fbchallenge2021

🤩 Have you ever had that giddy moment?

Maybe you watched somebody's live or read somebody's post and thought right, I really need to start emailing my clients and potential clients. So you create a login to Mailerlite or Active Campaign or another system you've been recommended in all the excited.

You're so proud you've made that next step.

But then...tumbleweed...

😱 How do I collect emails?
😩 What do I write about?
😬 Do I have GDPR permission to send to them?
🙃 How often do I need to send them?
🤬Won't people get fed up of receiving emails from me?
🤯 How do I create an email? There's no 'send email' button!

Then I've got a free challenge coming up in the next few weeks that's going to help you...join my main group for more info 😊

I love getting out in the countryside and being out in nature. I love the way it gives me time to process things and just be. I also love what
animals bring to my life - they're always teaching me things!

What are you passions outside of being an entrepreneur?

When I have a one to one session with a client, I always make sure that they have control of the mouse and are experiencing how to do it themselves.
It's so important that you don't just get lectured at and can actually practice in a safe environment.
That's why I've been working out ways this can happen in my group sessions too. Too many online courses are in the form of webinars where you get talked at for an hour and then have to go away to do it yourself.
I want to make sure you can practice in a safe environment so you build your confidence to use the tech so you are ready when you need to do it independently.
How do you find you learn things best?

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

Or so the old saying goes.
Most of us entrepreneurs in business have some kind of goal. Whether that's to help a specific number of people, be known for what we do in certain circles, get in a certain publication or hit a magic number in revenue. Or maybe it's something else entirely different.

I'm not one for manifesting, although I do believe whatever you focus your attention on you will naturally get more of.

However to achieve that goal you need to have a plan, a strategy and then work out the most appropriate tools that you need to help you to get there.

What's your goal for the next 6 months? What would you shave achieved if you'd been successful?

I'm not a Tech Virtual Assistant and I never will be.

Doing the work for you doesn't do anything for me. There's the number of revisions that have to be made, the difficulty of you communicating what you want when you're not really sure what's possible and the frustration (and cost) for having to come back just to make a little change.

I'm in this because I want you to feel confident in using the tech that you need for your business. To focus on which tools you need (and avoid shiny magpie syndrome - that's a whole other post) and to learn how they can help you and not get overwhelmed and frustrated.

So tell me...what is it about tech that has you pulling your hair out, wanting to throw it out of the window?

Maybe it's someone techy trying to explain something to you and making you even more confused than you were in the first place.
Maybe it's when you search on Google you can never find the answer but everyone else seems to find it straight away.

Let me know in the comments. When was the last time your laptop nearly went out of the window?

**Coming up this week in the group**
Join the group and hear about my tips and tricks for overcoming the overwhelm of social media and how to have a manageable sustainable approach.
The group is full of lovely supportive people wanting to help you with the essential tech you need for your business online.
To join the group go to www.fb.com/groups/ITBasicsforBusiness

These 10 emojis are officially not used by the youth (accordingly to the Daily Mail, so who knows 😂).
🙋🏻‍♀️ Anyone else officially not down with the kids and some of these are their most used emojis 🙈