After the Funding: How Will Caribbeanpreneurs Thrive?
The Caribbean entrepreneurship space has been quite busy for the past seven years. Millions of Euros and Canadian dollars have been invested to help stir up a desire for enterprise development and to strengthen existing structures to improve local economies. What is the strategy for continuity once funding is no longer being designated for Caribbean […]
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Why Your Communication Strategy Failed
Write two press releases and call me in the morning. That seems to be the prescription with which many public relations and media professionals handle campaigns and it is so far from what is necessary to garner attention in today’s very noisy marketplace. Here are a few reasons your communication strategy failed. Your end goal […]
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Surviving Your First Pitch Competition
First published on LinkedIn I am not sure what made me do it. I don’t do competitions. That may seem like a crazy thing for an entrepreneur to say but competing with others isn’t my thing. I love being an entrepreneur to create my own stuff and to be in a space where I don’t […]
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Caribbeanpreneurs Must Embrace Failure
Fail forward and fast. You hear that mantra regularly these days but that is not a mantra that most Caribbeanpreneurs want to embrace. First off, your parents most likely wanted you to get a “normal job” like working for the government, in a bank, as a lawyer or doctor. You really can’t afford to fail […]
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Write So Your Joy is Full
What’s the dream? To be a best selling author? To turn your books into a movie franchise? What’s the dream that is stirring the desire to write? I have found if my motivation is for anything other than my own pleasure it is often difficult to sustain the discipline of writing. I write for me […]
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Worthy to Write
A colleague recently expressed concern that she did not feel worthy to write the book she had inside of her. I was somewhat surprised to hear her say this and at the same time I wasn’t. I knew the feeling well. I am very familiar with that conversation. It comes out sounding like a favorite […]
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Love’s Sweet Joy on Sale this Weekend
It’s a long weekend here on Montserrat and so I thought I would make it easy for some of you booklovers. Love’s Sweet Joy is on sale until Monday night for your kindle. Click here to get yours for $2.99.
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How to Stop Working for Free
The simplest way to stop working for free is to simply say No. This post would be primarily for consultants and people in service-based businesses, who don’t necessarily have a tangible product that they sell. There are others with a tangible product but work with people who don’t understand the real value of what you […]
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Daydream Your New Life
Daydreaming is as normal to me as breathing. I remember in Math class my teacher would always chastise me for daydreaming rather than being focused on algebra. I disliked Math and much preferred to imagine myself as a Bond Girl or being Tom Cruise’s wingman in an F-14 fighter jet (Top Gun movie). I’m no longer in […]
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TT Guardian Features Editor on Promoting Your Book
During the 2017 Bocas Literary Festival in Trinidad, Franka Philip, Features Editor at the Trinidad & Tobago Guardian shared some tips on promoting your book. Have a media kit. Make it digital so they can easily download images, etc. Send an audio clip of you or someone reading the book. Include high resolution photos of […]
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