What do your customers really want?

Customers needs are changing and small businesses have the answer! Work Smart Not Hard Tip No. 45 in a series written for Indie Cambs At the start of each new year we’re bombarded with the same questions: “What do you want this year? What are your goals? What are your resolutions? What will you achieve? […]

Power and Choice

Are you in control of your business? How much power and choice do you have? Work Smart Not Hard Tip No. 44 in a series written for Indie Cambs It may feel that the control we have over our own destinies is being eroded so it’s a good time to remember that as independent business […]

What do you do when the world is chaotic?

When chaos seems to be the norm, how do we run our businesses? Work Smart Not Hard Tip No. 43 in a series written for Indie Cambs From AI to wars, politics, supply chains, prices, DEI issues and more, it’s easy to feel that we’re not able to influence anything very much. If you sometimes […]

Getting your pricing right

How do you work out what to charge? At a recent Work Smart Not Hard meeting a new member who had just left his corporate employment of many years to start freelancing was explaining how he used spreadsheets to work out how much time he spent on each job and what this meant about how […]

How do you rate your thinking skills?

Is thinking a uniquely human skill? Work Smart Not Hard Tip No. 42 in a series written for Indie Cambs We’re entering an interesting time. With the help of  AI anyone can create almost anything in seconds with barely a thought, so it’s going to take the thinkers, the people who know how to think, […]