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How to Craft an Irresistible Offer that your Prospects Can’t Refuse
All business growth is driven by marketing and sales. And to succeed in marketing and sales, it's important to master the art of creating irresistible offers. A...
Authentic and Natural Selling: Powerful Lessons from the Balinese Culture
It all started with a pedicure. On the beautiful island of Bali last week, we were busily enjoying the Inspired Business Bali Retreat. As busy mothers and business women,...
How to Accelerate and Improve Your Marketing Using AI — and How NOT to.
Last Friday morning I woke up to the news that Google Bard had just been released. It’s the long-awaited competition to ChatGPT that everyone’s been talking about in recent...
Are You Sending the Right Message? How to Develop Core Brand Messaging that Converts
Words are powerful things. When used correctly, they have the power to clearly convey an idea, thought, or message. And the reverse is also true. The wrong choice or mix of words...
Soft Skills are the New Superpower: IQ is No Longer the Metric of Choice for Top Global Companies
Having a high academic score doesn't necessarily make you a desirable candidate anymore for global tech companies like Google. These days, corporate giants are specifically...
The Rise of Four Different Species of Entrepreneurs—Which One Are You?
Definition: Entrepreneur A person who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial risk in the hope of profit. If you're a business owner, or working for...
Selling is Not a Numbers Game: The B.A.N.K Personality Coding System—An Overview
If you own your own business, you’re in the business of marketing and selling. “The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don’t bother thinking...
The Powerful Lesson I Learned from Losing One of my Best Deals Ever
“We can either be pushed by pain or pulled by pleasure”—unknown. I heard this quote a long time ago and it's always stuck with me because it couldn’t be more true in my...
How Does an Engineer End Up Becoming a Business Coach?
If anyone had told me back in my early twenties that I would end up quitting my engineering career in my thirties to become a business coach, I would have told them they were...
How to Grow Your Business and Profits With a Scalable Business Model
As those of you who have built your own business know, the first giant challenge when starting out is to beat the statistics and establish yourself as a stable, profitable...
Purpose is an Evolving Thing: It’s Time for a New and Exciting chapter.
purpose [ˈpəːpəs] NOUN The reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists. As humans, we need purpose like we need...
Profit Queen (Part 1): 5 Powerful Ways to Optimise Your Business Model for Greater Profit
Have you been in business for a while and you’re working your backside off, but you’re not making the money you deserve? Are you feeling like a slave to...
Relax, You Are Exactly Where You’re Meant to Be: A Powerful Lesson in Trusting the Flow of Life.
First published in Positively Positive in June 2018. “You’re exactly where you’re meant to be.” That’s what a well-intentioned person said to me when I...
What’s in a name? 10 Tips for Finding Your Perfect Business Name
It can be super challenging choosing a business name that clearly reflects your business vision and essence - and that someone else isn't already using! As I'm sure...
How to Get Great Testimonials from Happy Clients with These 10 Powerful Questions
Great client testimonials are an essential part of business. Testimonials (or reviews) provide the social proof that gives new customers the confidence to buy from...
The Confused Person Never Buys: How to Make Your Offerings Clear with Productisation
You might have heard the saying: The confused person never buys. When we're confused, we don't purchase. Simple as that. I'm sure you've been there...
Why You Need to be Spying on Your Competitors to Achieve Business Success!
If you want to be a successful business owner, you need to be keeping a close eye on your competitors. In marketing, the act of monitoring your competitors is...
The 10 Most Important Tactics That Will Set Your Business Up For Success
It’s not easy to establish and run a profitable business, but if you take the time to implement these 10 strategies – and do them well – you’re giving yourself the optimum chance of business success!
How to Harness the Power of Intuition to Make Important Business Decisions
Have you ever had to make a big business decision and no matter how much you try to rationalise and analyse the options with your mind, you just can't get the clarity...
How to do Set Powerful Goals that Drive True Business Growth
There is a definite art to setting goals that uplift, inspire and motivate us to be our best selves. The most critical element is that they be heart-centered and aligned with our genuine, authentic desires. Read on to find out how to set powerful goals that actually work in 6 easy steps.
The Three Hats that Every Business Owner Needs to Wear
The idea of running your own business is incredibly appealing: Be your own boss, work your own hours, do things on your own terms, make money doing what you love. But...
My Personal Journey of Finding My True Path & Voice
What does it mean to be true to yourself? This question has fascinated me ever since I had an epiphany on this topic in my mid-thirties. I realised that so many years of...
The Art of Being Yourself: 5 Ways to Embrace Authenticity in Business and Life
One of the most powerful things you can do in business is to embrace who you are and be 100% real and authentic.It's your greatest point of difference and it's what...
How to Sell More with Your Three Business Superpowers
Are you comfortable telling your prospects what makes you so great at what you do? If not, you need to be!When it comes to marketing and selling your products or...
15 Great Books that Every Female Entrepreneur Needs to Read
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Bridging Science and ‘Woo-Woo’: Powerful Breakthroughs in Quantum Physics are Changing How We View the World
Science is now helping us emerge from the cultural trance that has us believe that we are just our physical bodies and there is nothing beyond the physical senses. Scientific...
When is it Time to Take the Leap of Faith and Quit Your Corporate Job?
Do you fantasise about quitting the rat race to start your dream business? Thanks to high-speed internet and cloud-based systems, it's easier than ever before to work...
Profit Queen (Part 2): 5 Powerful Ways to Optimise Your Operating Model for Greater Profits
Have you been in business for a while and you’re working your backside off, but you’re not making the money you deserve? Are you feeling like a slave to your...
How to Maintain Strong Boundaries in Business and in Life
Boundaries/ˈbaʊnd(ə)ri/sPersonal boundaries are guidelines, rules or limits that a person creates to identify acceptable, safe and reasonable ways for other people to behave...
Discover the Best Social Media Platforms for Your Business
Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn… the list seems endless. Did you know that there are now over one hundred different...
How to Be Authentic, True to Yourself, and Run a Profitable Business
In a world of paid influencers, polished celebrity profiles, and relentless advertising, consumers are craving authenticity more than ever. According to the latest...
How to Make Your Product Launch a Spectacular Success
Have you ever tried to launch something and it flopped? Did you pour your heart and soul into an offer that you were super proud of and yet no one seemed to want...
How to Outsource Effectively So You Can Grow Your Business Faster
Have you hit a wall in your business where you're trying to do everything yourself and you're becoming an over-worked, frazzled human in the process? If so, you're...
How to Speak Transformationally So You Can Sell More
Cambridge Dictionary:'Transformation'UK /ˌtræns.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/ US/ˌtræns.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/Noun: A process that results in a marked change in form, nature, or...
How to Drastically Increase Profits with a Product or Service Ladder
Repeat customers are highly profitable. If you want to create a significant increase in your revenue quickly, focus your time and efforts on encouraging repeat...
How to Win More Clients with a Powerful Customer Value Journey
Do you need more clients? More leads or sales?If so, it's likely you need to optimise your Customer Value Journey. One of the biggest mistakes most businesses make is...
How to Start Your Own Business: 3 Things You Need to Know
So you want to start your own business? That’s super exciting! Because being in business for yourself has so many benefits. And being your own boss really is a...
How To Boost Your Revenue Quickly With Google Reviews
Google reviews are an extremely powerful tool to attract clients and boost your revenue quickly. Did you know that Google reviews help you to rank more highly in...
How to Craft Your Brand ‘Why’, Vision and Mission Statements
Successful businesses use their 'why', vision, and mission as the cornerstone of their marketing strategy. There's a lot of talk about these important company...
How to Quickly Grow Your Business with 90 Day Goals
90-day goals bring laser focus to the most important next steps in your business, over and over again. Those of you running your own business know how important...
The Art of Content Marketing: How to Build Your Brand Credibility and Easily Win New Clients
Have you ever wondered how some businesses have the time and energy to show up on social media with great content, consistently? I used to wonder that too....
This was a Complete Game-Changer for My Business: The Fempreneur Business Mastery Formula
Back in late 2017 I was feeling really frustrated in my business. I’d spent tens of thousands of dollars on different business programs and I’d worked with lots of...
Opportunity in the Chaos: How Fempire has Pivoted to Survive the COVID-19 Crisis
These are crazy times. Less than four weeks ago, our Fempire team was busily preparing for our big national tour of Australia which would consist of a five-city tour...
10 Powerful Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Blog
Have you been wondering whether blogs are passé, or whether you really need one for your business? Have you been procrastinating about starting a blog because...
10 Essential Things You Need to Have on Your Website
Discover the top ten things you need to put on your website to generate a steady stream of leads and clients.
The Day I Met a Mentor who Changed My Life for the Better
So much can change in just two years. Back in early 2018 I was really struggling in my business. We'd just returned from six years overseas and I was trying to...
The 6 Stages of Business Growth – and 3 Important Reasons Why You Need to Know Which One You’re in.
Perhaps you started your own business because you were tired of the constraints of your job and you craved more freedom and flexibility. Perhaps you don’t like...
3 Important SEO Trends You Need to Know About in 2020
Blog feature image courtesy of Pixabay.People used Google to perform over 2 trillion searches last year. If you're like most business owners, your main concern is...
Our Youngest Clients Ever Are Ready to Take the World By Storm: How Kellie & Abbie Started Their Business at Just 7 Years of Age
One of the greatest things about the work we do at Fempire is that we get to work with inspiring and talented female business owners all across the country. We...
The Reality for Women in Business: 11 Fascinating Things I’ve Learned as a Fempire Coach
Fempire is unapologetically a female-focused brand. We know that women have different needs to men when it comes to starting or growing a business. We think...
6 Powerful Productivity Strategies that will Help You Get More Out of Your Day
Discover 6 powerful productivity strategies that have given me the time to stay an engaged mother, while meeting the demands of growing a business. I hope they help you too.
How to Use SEO to Skyrocket Your Business Growth on Autopilot
If you're a business owner, you need to get your head around the topic of SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation. It's critical to your business growth and success. For...
5 Powerful Business Strategies that Tripled Her Income: A Case Study with Revi Chai
Discover how Revi tripled her income in less than twelve months with these five powerful strategies.
The Top 10 Mindset Qualities You Need to Embrace to be Successful in Business
You’ve probably heard the saying: ‘Success is an inside job.’ And when it comes to building your own business, this is 110% true. Your mindset will make or break...
With All This Female Empowerment, What’s Happening to the Men?
Fempire is on a mission to bring balance to the business world by supporting female entrepreneurs to be equally as successful as their male counterparts. We believe...
Does Gender Matter When It Comes To Choosing The Right Mentor? A Female Perspective on the Role of Gender in Professional Mentoring Relationships.
Gender isn’t something I’ve ever attached a lot of significance to because I believe that men and women are equally competent and necessary in the workplace. I grew up as the...
How to Live and Work in Your Zone of Genius: Your Strengths are More Than Just the Things You’re Good At
Discover how to live and work in your unique zone of genius for greater levels of fulfilment, success, and professional happiness! #strengths #strengthsanalysis #zoneofgenius #findyourstrengths #positivepsychology
What I Learned From an Astoundingly Bad Therapy Session: And 5 Qualities We All Crave in a Good Therapist
In my early thirties, I was going through a really tough time. I was suffering from chronic fatigue and lingering illnesses while trying to hold down a high-pressure...
The Art of Purposeful Living: How to Live and Work in Alignment with Your Personal Truth
There’s a path that's perfect for you… let me help you find it.– Kate De Jong It’s been many years since I left my corporate career and took the leap of faith to...
How to Grow a Family and a Business at the Same Time
Being a working mother requires an almost supernatural ability to keep dozens of balls in the air simultaneously. And if you’re a Mother who’s chosen to grow your own...
Why is it So Hard to Find a Career You Love? 5 Powerful Tips for Finding Your Inspired Professional Path
I’m sure you’ve heard the famous quote allegedly said by Confucius, the Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher who lived more than 2500 years ago. Choose a job...
The Way of a Heart-Centred Changemaker: 10 Rules for Creating Positive Social Change From the Inside Out
Originally featured in Ariana Huffington's THRIVE GLOBAL on June 29 2018. I see you. There’s an inextinguishable fire in your belly to make a positive...
When Struggle and Confusion Turns to Clarity and Confidence: How the ArtMark Experience Worked Its Magic in My Business
Those of you who run your own business know how critical it is to be able to articulate clearly who you are, what you do, for whom, and why. And yet it also happens...
The Happiness Key: How to Become One of the Rare 15 Percent of People Who Enjoy Genuine and Lasting Happiness and Success
People who are self-aware have been shown to be lead happier, more fulfilled, and more successful lives. And did you know that 95% of people think they’re self-aware, but only 10-15% actually are? Read on to find out why, and how you can become one of the rare 10-15% who enjoy happier lives. #self-awareness #emotionalintelligence #personalitytests
Pathfinding: How to Find the Work That’s Perfect for You
Learn about the four critical components that are essential to creating a professional life you love. If you want to make a difference in the world while doing work you love, then this article is for you #purpose #findyourpurpose #professionalpurpose #bigwhy #lifepurpose
Tired of Procrastinating? Try These 6 Powerful Tips to Overcome it Now
Are you tired of getting stuck in procrastination? Find out the real reasons why you’re procrastinating and learn 6 powerful strategies to overcome it. Start stepping up to your full potential and hitting your milestones out of the ball park! #procrastination #procrastinating #effectiveness #productivity #efficiency #motivation #inspire #empower #liveyourbestlife
7 Ways to Be an Inspiring Leader in Small Business
Those of us who choose to be a small business owner are in some way required to step into leadership, even if we’re not explicitly aware of it. This article explains how we can become inspiring leaders in small business.
A Radically Different Approach to Business Planning: Explode Your Impact with Business Artistry Principles
Jeffrey Davis’ QUEST 4-week process is a revolutionary process for setting meaningful goals for the year ahead (New Year’s goal setting). Find out how #WeQuest to make the year ahead the best ever.
7 Powerful Strategies to Help You Get Through Those Days When You Just Want to Give Up on Your Dream
Some days it all just feels too hard, and sometimes those days come with increasing frequency. I’m coming to realise it’s part of the natural cycle of things. Here’s what I do to pull myself out of them.
How to Create More of What You Want Using the Law of Attraction – Part 2
This is Part 2 of two articles on how to use the amazing discoveries made in Quantum Physics in our own lives to experience greater levels of abundance, flow and happiness. But to do that you first need to understand how it all works. Read on to find out with minor adjustments in your habits and life, you can create everything you’ve dreamed of and more.
How to Create More of What You Want Using the Law of Attraction – Part 1
In this blog article I summarise the most critical discoveries that have been made in Quantum Physics in recent decades and how to use those discoveries to create the life you want. Once you know how the Universal Laws operate, you can consciously harness them to improve your life and the life of those around you.
What is a Virtual Assistant and Do You Need One?
VIRTUAL ASSISTANTA trusted asset who takes away your frustrations by completing the tasks you don't want to do, letting you focus on what you love. It can be so hard when you’re...
Are You Ready for the Emerging Purpose Economy?
Learn how purposeful businesses are leading the way and shaping the new economy.
The Art of Unlearning: 5 Powerful Myths You Need to Unlearn to Build a Life You Love.
In 2017 I was fortunate to work alongside 10 powerhouse female entrepreneurs to create the much-anticipated anthology THE ART OF UNLEARNING: CONSCIOUS CHOICES FOR...
Letter to a Novice Expat Wife: The Surprising Truths of Expat Life That No-One Warns You About
Expat life can be a wild ride filled with fun, laughs, adventure, good times and perhaps most of all – challenge. It’s guaranteed to push you out of your comfort zone,...
The Healing Code: How to Reclaim Your Health & Well-Being in Three Powerful Steps
Important note: I'm not affiliated with the creators of The Healing Code in any way. I found their book in 2015 and I've been using their process since ever since as I find it...
Peaceful Heart: 7 Powerful Steps to Cultivate True Inner Peace
One of the keys to enjoying life to its fullest and experiencing lasting happiness is our ability to maintain inner peace, even in the face of challenging or hurtful...
The Gift in the Struggle: How to Find Your Purpose in the Pattern of Your Most Difficult Challenges
Are you still trying to find your professional purpose? Try these powerful questions – they may just give you the answers you need.
How to Find the Vocation You Love So You’ll Never Work Another Day
Follow your bliss and the Universe will open doors where there were only walls. - Joseph Campbell Why is it so hard for so many of us to find a professional path we love? Most...
The Moment of Clarity: How Do You Know When it’s Time to Follow Your Heart?
I remember the moment so clearly. I was sitting on the terrace of a beautiful outdoor cafe in a leafy green suburb right on the beach. The warm sun was gently warming...
Why Some People are ‘Toxic’ … and How to Make Sure You’re Not!
If you do a quick Google search on 'toxic people', the overwhelming advice you'll find is to cut these people out of your life. But that's easier said than done in...
Over the Hill and Loving It! Six Ways to Embrace Life After Forty
Like all big milestones in life, my fortieth birthday really got me thinking and reflecting. Unlike the months leading up to my thirtieth birthday that were filled with dread,...
Family Drama! Three Ways to Survive Those Dreaded Family Reunions
Do you look forward to Christmas family reunions or do you dread them? If it’s the latter, read on to find out three ways you make the process more comfortable for yourself.
Parisian Luxury & Korean Chaos: A Tale of Two Radically Different Birthing Experiences
From the luxury and comfort of a French maternity hospital to the hustle and chaos of a South Korean birthing clinic, my two birthing experiences couldn't have been...
Are you Struggling to Forgive? Try a Little ‘Radical Forgiveness’
I’ve always felt a definite resistance to those who advise that the key to happiness and inner peace is to simply forgive all the people who have wronged or wounded...
Embrace the Chaos: How to Survive When Life Throws You a Curve Ball
First published May 2014 At six months pregnant with a toddler starting at daycare a few days a week, I was finally about to enjoy some long-awaited peace and...
Looking for the Silver Lining: How to Find the Goodness in Difficult Times
First published May 2014 Every once in a while when life seems to be sailing along pretty smoothly, we can get thrown a curve ball that stirs things up a little ......
How To Design Your Dream Life With Life Design Principles
Are you guilty of continuously complaining about your job? Or wishing your job, business or life could be better? Then you need to stop complaining or...
The Art of Dreaming Big: How to Harness Your Imagination and The Law of Attraction to Create What You Want
Have you experienced first-hand how the magic of the Law of Attraction can work in your business and life? In 2015 I completed a great course for entrepreneurs and business...
You’re a Hero! How to Find Meaning & Purpose in Your Life with The Hero’s Journey
In my mid-thirties I was in a very dark place. Life felt heavy, overwhelming and hopeless. My heart ached constantly and every morning I struggled to get out of bed, tired of the...
Soul-Care: 10 Ways to Comfort Yourself in Times of Overwhelm
In these modern days of stress and ‘busy-ness’ it’s critical that you take time out to rest your nervous system and recharge. Discover 10 powerful strategies to practice radical ‘soul-care’ and say goodbye to stress and overwhelm!
Forget IQ Tests. Here Are the Real Reasons Why People Succeed.
Have you ever felt constrained by a label? Or been unfairly compared to others? Or have you felt empowered by a label? I felt compelled to write this article because I’ve...
QUEST 2017: A Profound Approach to Plan an Impactful Year Ahead
For the first time ever, this year I joined an inspiring group of wide-minded, visionary entrepreneurs in Jeffrey Davis’ Quest 2017: 12 Principles to do Business as Unusual – a...
Has a ‘Coincidence’ Ever Completely Transformed Your Life?
Have you ever had one of those moments in life where you’re moving along in a certain direction, thinking you know where you’re headed, and then boom! Suddenly something...