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From: Olly Richards12th May 2023Hobbitshire (Isn’t it supposed to be Spring already?) When you’re scaling a business… The order in which you do things matters. A lot. A few weeks back, I received an email from a reader who was struggling to shift away from 1-to-1 client work, and into group coaching. Unfortunately, it hadn’t […]
From: Olly RichardsDate: 5th May 2023Lanzarote: On our annual StoryLearning team retreat! The other day, I saw this tweet: The tweet suggests: “Referral programs don’t work very well in 2023.” I sat looking at this tweet for a little while. And strangely for me– My brain shut down! Something about this question short-circuited my brain, […]
Some time in 2020, I felt a shift brewing inside me. Perhaps it was pandemic-induced cabin fever. Maybe it was an early mid-life crisis. There I was, plugging away inside StoryLearning (my language learning business), when a thought struck me like a lightning strike on a clear day: I spend far more time thinking about […]
From: Olly Richards21st April 2023Hobbitshire (feeling the jet lag) Late last year, I was in Marrakesh (Morocco) with a group of entrepreneur friends. The villa was gorgeous… The pool was Instagram-worthy… The masterminding was epic… But it wasn’t all rosy: The city tour we arranged for Wednesday morning took an unfortunate turn, spiralling into one […]
I spent the first 7 years of my “career” as a jazz pianist. I spent the next 7 years as an English teacher, traveling the world. After that, I spent 7 years building a $10M online education business. And today… I’m going to tell you the story of all this malarkey, what it taught me, […]
This post is about the uncomfortable truth that your business will not survive. At least not in its current form. To survive, you have to evolve. My business, StoryLearning, is coming up on 10 years old this summer… And the truth is… We’ve reinvented ourselves more times than Madonna! The more you study great businesses, the […]
Let’s be honest for a moment –Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. And I gotta say… Business often feels a lot like getting served up one knuckle sandwich after the other. It’s one thing to have a plan to scale your business… It’s quite another thing to muster the grit […]
Today’s newsletter is a pep talk to myself. A self-therapy session, if you like. And I really need it… See, I’ve got a bad case of the “6 Month Slump”. In other words… I started a new project, got it out the door, but then…. The novelty wears off, growth is slow, and I start […]
A few weeks back, I sent a newsletter called: “49 things I’d teach my daughter about business.” And at the end, I asked you to vote on your favourite ideas from piece. Sure enough… One idea rose to the top. And, by jove, you’re a smart bunch… Because that top-voted idea is a real belter! And […]
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