CharlieKenny.me

people * stories * engagement

Category: business

  • Putting the work in

    Another oft-overlooked advantage of joining a like-minded community is partnership. By putting the work-in, being brave, giving time to the room, we’re reaching a whole new community of listeners. Each of us have the potential to reach new prospects through recommendation. Word of mouth works … if only you give us something to talk about.

  • How do they feel?

    Remember why you do what you do. If it’s to bring yourself and others a better standard of living, then understand that what you are offering to your network is worthy indeed. 

  • Hoooraaay!

    It’s relief, validation of her actions and in her product and service. It can be tricky for anyone wishing to start their own business. Today’s fickle, competitive, and somewhat demoralising world calls for a tough skin.

  • Quick step or bolero?

    The past few years working for myself have been tough. I’ve noticed a tremendous change in the way people do business. Speaking with friends in my network, they all see the same … ​The familiar high-street names have disappeared from local focus. Woolworths, Miss Selfridge, Debenhams to name a few. Sure, some have resurfaced on-line…

  • More homework

    Give it time, Ross. Educate the audience on who could use your product or service. Give the audience time to buy in to you and they may bring you business.

  • Foundations matter …

    If you want to be great, greater than life itself, learn to give. Love has nothing to do with what you expect to get, only with what you expect to give—everything.

  • Gadgets, lions and parachutes

    Then one day! By the magic of word-of-mouth recommendation, an enquiry arrives. Someone needs a lion tamer … together with a bespoke parachute …

  • Innovation, endurance

    Today I’ll thank networking, that opportunity that never goes away. Plus of course Norman for putting me back on the ‘straight and narrow!’

  • Speaking the lingo

    thoughts on networking, collaboration, and the whole ‘people buy from people’ principle. It works by learning from those within our circle, those who may be ahead of our own business curve through experience,

  • My shout.

    time out for a chat? It works.