Could Your Personal Style be Losing You Opportunities?

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Today’s post is all about knowing and creating your personal style and allowing it to reflect your brand without saying much to your prospective as well as current clients. What am I referring to? I will let Luisa talk some more about this.

We are a society who as a whole is lured into spending our money, time and interest on everything that is visually attractive. How many times have you been blown away by luxury packaging?

Can you count the times you’ve wanted to buy an item that was more pleasing to the eye than its mediocre counterpart? How important is your personal appearance and could you be losing opportunities by not investing time and effort into maintaining your very own presentable style?

This got me thinking about the importance of style and personal image, not only for visual purposes but in order to help you present yourself to the best of your ability in both your business and personal life.

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Are you hiding behind a required suit?

For some job roles, you may be required to dress in a certain way or meet a certain level of dress code. In some cases when a job role doesn’t require such, some service providers come to the conclusion that if there are no strict rules for their work wear, they don’t need to focus on their presentation skills either.

The truth is that even if your job role requires you to wear a suit every day, it doesn’t instantly guarantee that you will look smart and be able to present yourself and your company in the right way. After all, it isn’t what you wear – it’s how you wear it! I’ve met so many females who struggle to dress for business.

Your personal style needs to start dressing for success!

So you are trying your best to stay well clear of jeans, you often drag out an ill-fitting suit in an unflattering colour from decades ago, or you may end up looking like a child who has raided your parents’ wardrobe by wearing clothing that is far too old for you.

Other issues that I’ve experienced – a very common one actually, is business people who hide behind their visual branding and feel as though they are the “let down” if/when they come to meet with clients and business partners in person.”

It is easy to hide behind amazing branding online, but at some point, your clients have to deal with you and if you feel as though you lack style and presentation skills then your client will see that too!

Your business branding (i.e. your business cards, logo, posters and web design etc.) is very important for your business but no matter how good your business branding and other business tools are, you cannot get away with being the “mediocre part of your business.”

You should never overlook the fact that you (and only you) are the best possible tool in your business so you need to work that to your advantage. You are the face of your business and let’s be honest, it’s always better for every face to belong to a happy, pleasant looking person that appears confident and comfortable when you see them!

Stand out from the crowd and claim your personal style!

I’m not just a stylist who knows about the important of style in business; I am living proof that a solid personal brand has the ability to take your business to wherever you want it to go.

If you’re struggling to get your head around all of this, think of “bad style and poor personal branding” as a big, ugly spot on your face that you can’t disguise. It would knock your confidence when meeting new people and when trying to talk business, it might prevent you from looking and feeling your best thus, you are unable to present yourself in the way you’d hoped.

When you look your personal best, you feel amazing about yourself and when that happens, that transcends across every aspect of your life, including through your communication and presentation skills!

Style doesn’t have to be expensive, cruel, unethical or uncomfortable. Some of my most favoured looks have been outfits that have cost no more than £10 – but appear as though they’ve cost far more! Don’t confuse style with dressing up!

Dressing up means adapting an appearance that isn’t usually you and that can be difficult to pull off every day. Few of us have hours to spend on our appearances, so we try to focus on what you can achieve in a short space of time.

Let me help you dress better and find colours and styles that suit you for your next business engagement.

Bio: Luisa Kearney is a professional online personal stylist who offers virtual personal styling services.

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Erase these mistakes from your blog using this free app!

9 / 22 / 16 6 / 1 / 18

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Today I wanted to share my tool of the month with you. So take a seat, get that coffee or wine and let me talk some more about this pick. This is Grammarly.

Now, why do I like this FREE app? From the moment my computer starts, I make sure that Grammarly is in place to help me as a second pair of eyes for when I need to send off those emails, even when I am creating content for my blog.

This does not eliminate receiving a second opinion from another human being, but this does come in handy when you are a fashionista on a budget. I have this app installed on my browser to help me out with my grammar.

1-2-3 easy steps to use this FREE app on your blog and or social sites.

Now let me show you a step by step on how I use Grammarly. Now it’s easier to add this plugin to your chrome browser if you are using this browser. Another feature that I like with Grammarly is that once you install this app on your browser (namely Google) you are able to see a pop up from the sites you are visiting.

So let’s say that you are browsing your social media channels and you are making a post, once the errors are there, you will see the pop-up that comes up that allows you to correct these errors.

This helps whenever you are visiting any sites. From you start composing a message you are able to see a pop-up of how to correct miss-spelled words or to add in and correct those grammatical errors.

Now I am not so good with my grammar so you can imagine how this is a lifesaver when you have to attend to clients work or sending out a simple email or reminder.

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The good thing about this free app is that you do not necessarily have to log in to your account to create a new post for it to be corrected. Another benefit of having this app on your browser is let’s say you want to make a blog post, you can sign into your Grammarly account and create a new document.

On the free version, when you open a document from the dashboard of Grammarly you are able to get your entire document edited but once there are critical issues to be updated the premium version is a must if you do not want to hire an editor at this time.

Grammarly will erase these mistakes on your blog post!

This also helps when you are creating a post and a prompt is given to make corrections, this can include, from updating your sentence structure correctly or a phrase. Once you are done and you are satisfied with your blog post you can copy and paste the corrected document and paste it into your preferred platform.

Grammarly also allows you to add your own words which might not be recognized from their directory. The good thing about it is that you are able to have this word used over and over again without it being picked up as misspelled.

I love the fact that this small but powerful plugin is my extra pair of eyes for looking out for those grammatical errors. This is a must-have for any individual, whether you are in business or not, in school or a writer I do recommend Grammarly because it does check and keep your grammar in place.

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20 wishes to know before starting your online business

8 / 13 / 16 6 / 15 / 18

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As a business owner, I know you might want to create this fabulous business plan of having your business online and how to go about doing so. You are hoping that it will be smooth sailing with no bumps on the straight road ahead. Was I wrong to think this because, during this path, it’s like I started from Z and not A!

I wanted to share with you 20 things that you should have in place to accompany your business plan.

Now I know you will not have everything in place, but I wanted to share with you some of these wishes that you do not end up having to make the same mistakes that I did when I started my business or what to expect on your business journey.

Let the wishing begin!

♥ I wish I had known that virtual assisting was an industry a year ago and you can make money online.

♥ I wish I had known that when I started out virtual assisting that I could not only offer administrative services alone. I have to keep on learning.

♥ I wish I had known that I could start networking my services in social media platform, such as joining groups and finding clients there too. (Hey, you can join my Free Facebook group, which has constant support of ladies by industries.)

♥I wish I had known that having more than one income, such as passive income, would be handy when you have off days and no clients to tend to.

♥ I wish I had known that I would need to build and create a list from day one.

♥ I wish I had known that I would need to create a freebie to capture clients and that a list is important but without the freebie, it’s like staring at a sign hoping that it will answer you.

♥ I wish I had known that I will need a website from day one.

♥ I wish I had known that I had to research who my ideal client is; the same thing as having a targeted niche to work with.

♥ I wish I had known that I would need the assistance of a coach who had gone down that road and can assist me with my business guide.

♥ I wish I had known 10 years ago that I would be a business owner so that I could prepare myself for all this work.

The wishing continues.

♥ I wish I had known that from day one, I can’t do this all alone so I would need the help of others, such as hiring out for help to run a business.

♥ I wish I had known that I would need a business and a marketing plan.

♥ I wish I had known that marketing would be hard and even if you have a website, you will need to reach other clients when those clients do not need your services on those off days.

♥ I wish I had known that in order to go from step D in the process of creating a business I can’t go pass step A, B, and C. Where is a complete guide when you need one?

♥ I wish I had known that I would have to create content, schedule newsletters, emails and use tools that will support me.

♥ I wish I had known that it’s best to schedule your days for a specific task to be completed so that I am better to organize on what to achieve.

♥ I wish I had known that creating a website and even having content, clients will not miraculously come to me unless they have encountered me before.

♥ I wish I had known that I would need to register my business in my home country as well as doing this in the country of my clients because I am not protected from copyright in my clients’ country.

♥ I wish I had known that even though it’s exciting to create a business that it would be nice to have support from other like minded individuals in my field because trust me, my family will not and can’t relate.

♥ I wish I had known what to do with each step in order to create a business, from even from high school, telling me that you need to go to this school to learn this, but then again with the trends changing every minute online, it would be best to learn more online.

What are yours ‘I wish I had known’ facts before creating a business? You do not have to list all 20 of yours here and even if you have more, but do please share your top 5 of what you wish you had known before creating a business.

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Until then, happy hiring, and best wishes with your business.

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