This week, we’re surrounded by banana plants, tree ferns, bamboo, and eucalyptus. 🌴 No, we haven’t raided our NatWest baby Woody piggy bank 🐷 and jetted off to the tropics. We have, in actual fact, taken a trip down the M4 to… BRISTOL. It’s the home of Lisa Mellis, our head of brand and our…
Now we don’t want you to choke on your Cornflakes (so strap in for a moment), but did you know… 📹 YouTube has over 2 billion active monthly users. 📹 Just over a quarter of the world’s population access YouTube every month. 📹 We consume more than 1 billion hours of content on YouTube Every.…
No one likes to feel like they’re being sold to. FACT. Think of all the times you’ve experienced the ‘hard sell’ and tell us it hasn’t left you feeling a little icky. It makes you want to run like Forrest Gump in the opposite freakin’ direction, right? 🏃🏃🏃 And yet, encouraging someone to buy what…
Sales. The word alone can send even the most seasoned entrepreneur into a cold sweat. Get your sales process right and you’ll feel like Rocky at the top of those steps. 🏆 Misjudge your marketing and yikes! But never fear, Alison Edgar is here! 🦸 Known as The Entrepreneur’s Godmother, Alison’s helped Dragon’s Den slayers…
You know the saying ‘not all superheroes wear capes’? We think this sums up every social entrepreneur out there, including our very own CEO, Joy Foster. They’re the peeps who spot a social problem and then go out and create a business to solve it. 👊 Their mission is fuelled by a passion for making…
Before you do anything else today, go and listen to Brenė Brown talking about Theodore Roosevelt’s The Man in the Arena speech. 🏃♀️ (Don’t worry, we’ll wait ‘til you’re done.) Got you thinking? You’re not the only one. This talk inspired the name of the company run by our guest on the Sparkle and Thrive…