Welcome to my blog!

 
 
 
 

 

 

Welcome to my blog site!

My background

 

I’m a consultant at Olson Sales & Marketing Services which provides a sales & marketing support for owners of SME businesses, freelancers and self-employed professionals and authors.

I’ve twenty-five years’ experience working in sales & marketing and business development in retail, the book industry, and professional membership organisations.

In that time I’ve worked in various environments: retail, SME, corporate. I’ve run high revenue-generating departments, overseen commercial partnerships, and run my own small independent publishing company & publishing consultancy. My clients, stakeholders, and customers have ranged from corporate giants such as Amazon.co.uk, national & local government bodies, smaller & medium sized businesses, publishers, charities, authors, the general public, and skilled professionals.

As a result, I understand the thrills, excitement, pressures and challenges as well as the sense of overwhelm or conflicting demands which solopreneurs, managers, and senior staff face when working to define priorities, goals and objectives, and meet them.

Having felt I’d worked long and hard as a small business owner and corporate professional (and despite being a born-and-bred Londoner), I left London in 2005 to live in Hampshire and now I love living in a village close by beautiful woods, countryside and acres of agricultural fields. After my maternity break, I decided to build a business model that gives value and support to my clients whilst allowing me to spend as much time as possible with my two young children, cats, garden, and friends & family.

Knowing the joy and pleasure this gives me and my loved ones, my focus is on helping other self-employed business owners to enjoy both recession-proof, secure growth and more time to spend on hobbies, friends, and family too.

Through my training programmes & 1:1 consultancy time, my clients grow their income base, develop focused strategies, prepare work for publishing, as well as develop their brand using social media techniques. Click through the link if you would like to book a FREE Business Growth Audit session with me so we can assess how effective your business is as attracting new clients and reaching out to your target market.

I’m very excited by my online programme of courses which are launching at various points in 2011..  I’ve created the “Results In 30/60 Days!”  Programmes to be highly practical blended-learning courses that are affordable, hands-on learning tools for solopreneurs, SMEs, and professionals.  I’ve designed the courses so that you can get to the heart of the topic without having to spend valuable hours on research and reading.

Look out too for my books which are complements to the “Results In 30/60 Days!”  Programmes. They’ll be available initially as e-books which you can read on all the major platforms.

On my website and this blog site, I’ll be providing resources and information on best practices, tools and techniques on publishing, writing, sales & marketing, business management and business development.  Currently you can sign up for a free 5-day e-course on attracting new clients and increasing revenue. Why not subscribe and see how you can grow your business?

Your comments and feedback are always welcome.
I look forward to hearing from you!

Sumi

Staying in touch

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Thanks for your interest,

Sumi