The Suitcase Entrepreneur

Ten Steps To The Art Of Launching

Posted on 16. May, 2012 by Natalie.

Taking the first steps towards developing your first product can be both exciting and daunting. Exciting because you are creating and putting your best work out there for people to buy and daunting, well because there is so much to do! Never fear though, with some planning and breaking things down into actionable steps, you’ll [...]

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Starting A New Business Journey – From Zero To eBook Launch

Posted on 10. May, 2012 by Natalie.

This is a guest post from Debi Auger from Designs by Debi I’m retired from the medical field and on a new journey. A few years ago my life was unexpectedly turned upside down when an unfortunate chain of events left me medically unable to return to my career. I was a Radiologic Technologist specialized [...]

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The Key Is Not To Be Afraid Of Failing

Posted on 08. May, 2012 by Natalie.

The title of this blog post is taken from a 13 time Ironman winner and four times world champion, Chrissy Wellington. I’m currently reading her excellent book A Life Without Limits- a World Champion’s Journey. It’s been a fitting read, especially as I’m enduring an emotionally and physically challenging time, as I enter my final [...]

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Six Best Business Books To Read in 2012

Posted on 05. May, 2012 by Natalie.

Did you know that 2012 is `The Year of Reading’? I had no idea but was secretly pleased to know that I’ve already started off this year reading more books – both physical copies and digital, than I did for most of 2011. So perhaps, instinctively I knew that this was the year to stimulate [...]

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Lessons from a launch: 7 Top tips for a Successful Lift-Off!

Posted on 01. May, 2012 by Natalie.

Exhilarating. Terrifying. Exhausting. Eye-opening. These are a few of the words that come to mind when I think back to the launch of my first online program in March this year. A few other words, unfit for publication, also come to mind. Getting online to supplement the ‘offline’ I am a Personal Trainer and Movement [...]

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How Do You Launch A Profitable Product You Love?

Posted on 27. Apr, 2012 by Natalie.

I get asked this question on a weekly basis. It’s like the holy grail of questions on everybody’s lips right now. While I love taking the time to answer it right here on my blog or in my coaching calls, I have a better solution for you today. You see, there is not a simple [...]

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From Zero To 100: My First Baby Step As Mediapreneur

Posted on 21. Apr, 2012 by Natalie.

I believe that the quickest and best way to learn is to pick the brains of people who have succeeded in that kind of enterprise. And since I always wanted to become a location-independent entrepreneur, I’m always searching for people who succeeded in being one, who can teach me how to do it and do [...]

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How Dean Dwyer Created 6-Pack Abs and a Business Simultaneously

Posted on 16. Apr, 2012 by Naomi.

Dean Dwyer creatively sculpted his blog Make Shift Happen, by blowing up the current model for weight loss (which is horribly flawed) and introduced a more progressive concept called Lean Thinking, which encourages people to take ownership for their bodies and begin to run it (their body) like one would run a successful start up business. Dean [...]

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20 Business Lessons Learned While Riding Across Africa

Posted on 11. Apr, 2012 by Natalie.

I’m writing from Lusaka, capital of Zambia on our rest day. I’ve just come off a five day stint on the bike, clocking up huge kilometers, including two days of over 170km! I feel I’ve pushed myself through, and over, some big mental and physical barriers. As I mentioned in my last post This Is [...]

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Are You Leaving Money On The Table?

Posted on 07. Apr, 2012 by Natalie.

This is a guest post from Sarah Von from YesandYes Dear Sarah Von, What follows is surely an awkward and maybe inappropriate question, but I imagine the entire internet is interested in the answer. (And I feel like if any blogger was going to be honest about this stuff it would be you.) So, um, [...]