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Business coaching or consulting
Have you ever been wondering what's the difference between consulting and business coaching services? The terms coaching and consulting are often used interchangeably, and I admit to have been doing this for a short while. However, as I started to reassess and restructure my services, I felt a need to find out what's the difference, if any. As I was researching the difference between these service types, it became clear to me that they aren't as interchangeable as I had previously thought. Consulting and business coaching are distinct services, which fulfil different needs. Consulting and co...
Slow Sunday: Taking care of yourself
Are you feeling overwhelmed? You're not the only one. I almost didn't make this Slow Sunday, due to the overwhelm I'm feeling. I thought it would be selfish to write about relaxing, slowing down and de-stressing, when the world around us all is falling apart. Until I saw a post by a friend on Facebook. She pointed out that you must take care of yourself. First because you are a human and your wellbeing matters too. Second because this all is a lot to take and you can't keep resisting if you are paralysed in shock, as she put it. Most of the people on my Twitter timeline are posting all the s...
Slow Sunday: Feeling
Us Finns are great at suppressing our feelings. The Finnish "sisu", the stoic determination and resilience is highly regarded here. Falling apart, having a breakdown, being happy and loving, crying or expressing other "big" feelings is considered weak. However, feelings and emotions are there for many good reasons, and recognising them is very important. Your feelings aren't wrong nor they should be ignored. While a constant turmoil of emotions isn't healthy either, and can increase your stress and anxiety, the stoic emotionless existence is bad as well. Suppressing feelings makes you tens...
Slow Sunday: Relaxing
I'm a highly strung person. I'm easily scared and have a hard time of getting to sleep. Relaxing is difficult for me. Which is part of the reason I started this series. To learn myself how to slow down, relax, de-stress, and deal with my depression and anxiety. Today I will talk about little methods that even me, a wound up person, has found useful for relaxing. First, it's important to note that relaxing is different for everyone. We have several ways to relax. No relaxation method is better than another, and it's okay to find relaxation the way you do. Unless, of course the way you find re...
Get your blog posts indexed faster by Google and Bing
After you have written a great blog post and hit publish, you hope your great text to reach search engines as soon as possible. But the search bots don't always crawl your site as often as you wish. Especially if your blog updates sporadically or has a small readership, your fine blog post may end up ignored by search engines for days. Good news is, you can tell the search engines to crawl your blog posts faster. I need to start with a disclaimer: I always get my blog posts indexed immediately by using these methods. However, none of these methods guarantee your blog posts will be indexed by...
Slow Sunday: Drawing the line
You are stretching yourself thin. Saying no isn't easy for you, and you get bad conscious when you can't accommodate the wishes of other people. You feel you are getting walked over constantly. Your clients (or your boss) keep expecting you do everything and a whole lot more. For the same price. Or maybe you keep doing something you have decided not to do, just one more time. And then another one more time. And another. In case any of this sounds familiar to you, you have trouble with drawing the line. Over a decade ago I was working in an educational organisation. Part of my job was to acce...
Marketing for people who don't like selling
"I don't like marketing." Not the first, and probably not the last time I heard a business owner say this. This is due to many reasons. One of the reasons is a common misconception, thinking that marketing is just selling. Yes, selling is marketing. But marketing is not selling. Marketing isn't even promotion, though promotion is marketing. Marketing is a much bigger process. Let's start with a definition of marketing by AMA (it's a bit complicated, so bear with me): Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging of...
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