Last month I celebrated the end of the first official year of my coaching and training company, ThreeSixtySkills Pte. Ltd., which I launched in 2015 here in Singapore. Woohoo! (Before that I ‘only’ had a blog, not a real live business.) I can’t believe how many things have happened in a year! I’d never have […]
Every so often people ask me what tools you need to create an online business, and how much they cost. In this post I’ll describe the 30 digital resources, applications and tools that I use regularly. It’s not an exhaustive list, but I wanted to focus on the ones I find absolutely essential for my […]
Have you ever wanted to say NO to something and instead ended up saying YES? Perhaps it was the time someone asked you for a discount, or to attend a meeting that would have robbed you of precious time. Or the time you were asked for a favour, which you did just to keep the […]
In this Q&A session, Samantha asks for suggestions on how to better organise her time and be more productive: I wanted to ask you for some advice on how to organise my days and my tasks in order to achieve my objectives. I always have a thousand things in mind and a thousand things to […]
Following on from this slightly controversial title I’d like to talk about something close to my heart: money. A while ago I sent a simple question to the ThreeSixtySkills community: Consider the idea of creating a business based on your passions. What are the biggest obstacles you can see? Guess what? Many of the responses […]
Starting with this post we’ll begin a series of Q&A to answer your most burning questions about doing business. The first question comes from Deborah Forzanini, who also celebrates her birthday today: a very Happy Birthday! I saw the post in which you talk about your move to Singapore in May 2014 and how you […]
On 30th May 2014 I arrived in Singapore with two suitcases full of clothes, books, hopes, and fears. After being in a long-distance relationship with Simone, my current partner, for a year, I had finally decided to leave everything behind and move abroad, to Asia. Some people said I was mad: a short time before, […]
In last week’s article, you saw that all businesses go through three phases: infancy, adolescence, and maturity. And you also saw that to be successful you need to be capable of acting as an executor, as an entrepreneur, and as a manager. How can you manage all these roles without splitting yourself into three? The […]
A lot of people think that if you’re good at what you do, becoming a successful entrepreneur is easy. Yet the statistics show that 80% of small businesses fail during the first five years, if not the first three. Have you ever wondered what it is that keeps a business going? When I struck out […]
You decided to strike out on your own so that you’d have more time and more freedom. But since you launched your business, you do nothing but work all day, every night and every (or almost every) weekend too. This is just going to end up with you feeling worn out and frazzled. You’ll find […]
