Posts by Jude Love
Write compelling Calls to Action
Calls to Action (CTAs) are oxygen for your business. These small directions, on buttons and links are mighty. They’re the key to guiding visitors into your world and most importantly, into your ‘buying’ cycle – a way of ‘swiping right’ for your service and solution. I’m calling attention to them here because these barely visible…
Read MoreHow do I write my UVP?
A UVP is your Unique Value Proposition – what makes You uniquely Valuable. Craft your UVP (your Unique Value Proposition), be uniquely you and be seen and heard by your audience – the people whose ears are open to your great Value and Values Your UVP (unique value proposition) is the main piece of content…
Read MoreHow do I register my domain name?
Register your name as your domain name (also called your URL) as your website address. A domain name should cost between $20 and $30 / year. Any more than that and you’re paying too much. Even if you have a free site on wordpress.com, wix or weebly, you should have your own domain name. Find…
Read MoreValues based brand: financial security
Inflation, cost of living, financial sustainability is on everyone’s mind these days. It seems obvious, then, to include Financial Security as a value – there’s no point building a business that doesn’t provide financial security. It’s growing a business that will sustain you as well as deliver wealth, or even replace your income that needs…
Read MoreBuilding a values-based brand
Know your values, to create a brand that feels right, lures quality clients, helps build better customer relationships, creates connections, boosting the know like and trust factor and makes us money Your brand values are the deeply held beliefs that have been your guiding north star. Whether you’ve known them well or are only vaguely…
Read MoreUnderstand your Personal Brand from A to Z
Some of us know our Personal Brand outside and in. For others, it can take a little time to understand how ‘Brand’ translates to personal service, sales, products or your message. It can feel a little lofty or distant to think of yourself as a Brand. Remember, though, a brand is simply shorthand for all…
Read MoreValues based brand: Resilience and patience
Resilience and its gentle sibling, Patience, are the mother values. You can’t be in a service profession, or be in business of any sort without them. Resilience helps us recover boundaries, to learn, refocus and move forward. It supports growth and change, self-awareness and self-forgiveness. It gives us the perspective and distance to transform failure…
Read MoreValues based brand: Kindness
Enlightened philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau famously, and simply asked: “what wisdom is greater than kindness?” It is a small accessible act that can have mighty consequences and is easier to perform when its soul sister, empathy is on board. I find that if I can take a beat before descending into my less than kind…
Read MoreValues based brand: Joy
What purpose would Joy serve within a business? All values, personal and business have a place. For me, Joy is an essential part of life. It nourishes, replenishes, invigorates and inspires. My definition of Joy is living with passion, enthusiasm, humour and a feeling of abundance and gratitude: essentials for running your own business, especially…
Read MoreValues based brand: Curiosity
Curiosity makes listening easy. Being curious helps me seek out new opportunities to develop and grow, keeping me challenged and energised. It feeds my business and my drive to keep going, delivering and moving forward. Curiosity is what led me to running my own web development business after taking a redundancy from a newspaper job. Along…
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