It's been quite a month!

January 2021 is coming to an end. We've been locked down for almost all of it, and it's not been easy for anyone.

But yet it's still been a busy time! The team at The Consult Centre has been hard at work helping businesses to meet the challenges that are being thrown at them, while putting out constant messages of positivity on social media to keep everybody's spirits up!

Lesley celebrated her birthday!

We've also celebrated a few birthdays during the month.

Lesley turned 25.

(That's what she told me to say, anyway...)

Greg's scary birthday post!

And Greg is now 97.

He looks good for it though, doesn't he?

(Actually, don't answer that...)

And one of our young apprentices - Nikki's daughter Gabriella - celebrated her birthday too!

(We're quite jealous of her cake!)

Gabriella's cake!

We also held our first morning Online Relaxed Business Networking event and don't forget if you want to join us on the next one, you can sign up here. It's back to evenings in February as we are alternating between morning and night-time events!

Ruth has been nominated twice!

A big congratulations go to Ruth for her nominations by the EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council) as one of the top coaches and mentors in the world! We are very proud of our Ruth and know how good she is at what she does - and it's great that she's been recognised for it!

Greg is the 'press release guru' of the gang - thanks to his journalist background - and he was really pleased to see our client Zebra Electrical get some fantastic coverage in the local media after their kind gesture to help a local barber during lockdown. What a wonderful example of small businesses supporting each other!

See The Visitor article here.

Meanwhile the entire team has been busy speaking to local businesspeople,, holding Zoom calls and meetings, working on optimisation of social media profiles for clients, and doing all we can to ensure that our clients' social media presence is as powerful as it can possibly be.

We'd love to work with you too! If you would like some information on what The Consult Centre can do for your business social media, drop us an email to enquiries@theconsultcentre.com or call 01524 418225.

What's been happening at The Consult Centre - January 2021

It's been a time of change at The Consult Centre, as the team is working from home while helping our clients to adapt to some challenging times themselves.

Speaking of challenges, we hope you all enjoyed our 'Mug Challenge' this week!

The 'Who's Got the Best Mug' challenge!

Lesley got a lot of your votes for her 'You had me at Woof' mug on Monday.

But then Ruth's ' I survived another meeting that should have been an email' mug got plenty of support on Thursday!

For Greg and Nikki, clearly it's back to the mug drawing board, although Nikki hasn't been taking defeat lying down.

Nikki hates losing at mug challenges!

Not only did she come up with this, which might be a future mug challenge winner...

But The Consult Centre's very own super-mum has also been home schooling her two girls (and TCC's young apprentices Gabriella and Sienna) while loading all our new Essentials social media courses online, and managing to find time for home workouts too!

Nikki's fitness plan! Phew!

However, she admitted she was aching a bit after all of that, and looking at this list of exercises she sent us, no wonder!

There has been a lot of interviewing going on at The Consult Centre as well.

Ruth, Greg and Lesley have all been interviewing our clients, and other local businesses, for online videos promoting what they do. You may have seen some of them on our social media, and their social media too.

Ruth interviews local web designer Ben Yates

We have also been interviewing for new roles at The Consult Centre and hope to have some more info on this soon.

And we have welcomed some new clients too!

I mentioned Ruth's Essentials social media courses, and we were delighted to see some amazing feedback on Trustpilot from people who have attended them in the past.

Thank you to Jade for this one!

A review of Ruth's training courses

Overall, it's still a really busy time at The Consult Centre.

We are finding that with more people having to be at home, they have more time to look at social media, meaning that there has never been a better time for small businesses to promote themselves and speak to their customer base on line.

If you would like our team to help you with that, then please get in touch with us.

After all, at The Consult Centre, we're no mugs!

Tier we go again...but we can help!

Lockdowns, Tiers, complex ever-changing guidance and regulations...

Yes, 2020 has at times, been a minefield of information and a series of unprecedented challenges for small businesses to tackle.

The team at The Consult Centre knows only too well how many obstacles you, as a small business owner have had to overcome this year. We've had to overcome them too!

And today, small business owners woke up once again to even more changes and uncertainty, and on the last day of the year as well.

For many, it's quite literally New Tier's Eve.

2021 is a chance for a fresh start on social media

You're probably at the end of your tether with it all. Understandable!

But don't worry, because tomorrow is a new year, and a time for resolutions, out with the old and in with the new, and an opportunity to turn negatives into positives.

This is something The Consult Centre excels at.

Don't panic and don't worry. Help is at hand!

Now, more than ever, is the time that your customers need to hear from you.

Your clients are spending more time at home than ever before, and using to search for information, to keep them entertained, and to connect with the outside world.

Staying connected while at home

We at The Consult Centre can be your online voice. We can tell your customers what they need to know about your business during these challenging times.

Are you closed? Are you open? What Covid measures do you have in place to keep your clients safe? What services are you still providing? What are your plans for the future? What new initiatives do you have in place? What are your team members doing?

If you have been forced to close due to the Tiered system, now is not the time to go silent on social media. Quite the opposite.

It's the perfect time to remind your clients that you are still there for them, so they don't forget you and that you need them more than ever before!

The Consult Centre team can help you!

Through informative and imaginative posts, high quality creative designs tailored to deliver your specific message, and videos to communicate the information you need to provide, we can be that link between you and your audience.

Don't ever feel like you're alone, either. There are so many business professionals not necessarily in the same boat - because right now we're all in different boats in the same storm (thanks to our Lesley for that one!) - but who are going through this same period of confusion and worry.

Our monthly Relaxed Networking Events are a chance to meet like-minded people in an informal Zoom setting, make new contacts, get your feelings off your chest with colleagues who will understand only too well, and give your business the boost it needs by making the connections for your future.

Book here

So if you run a small business, it might be a time for Tiers, but certainly not one for tears.

Instead it's time to seize 2021 by the horns and embrace social media as the ultimate way to keep your business in the hearts and minds of

the people who matter most - your customers!