The best book recommendations for small businesses on the topics of marketing, business, personal development, relationships, politics, creativity and more.

This Small Business Saturday, I would like to celebrate some of the over 200 small businesses who have been marketing coaching clients, strategy clients, or power hour clients, who are part of the Do Crew or who attended any of my marketing courses. Cheering you on!

Goodness Marketing is 5 years old this week, and I’ve learned a lot about business and marketing since 2017. Here are 101 things I know to be true about running a business and marketing it.

Get the small business owner in your life a Christmas gift they’d actually want and put to good use!

Snowdrops are a perfect metaphor for how we can approach marketing in this tough year. Slow, steady progress even in less-than-perfect conditions! A blog post with more information about The Gentle Marketing Reset.

Feel-good marketing is all about finding what works for you, your business and the wider world. There is no need to follow the masses when the answers are often right in front of you. This blog is a big permission slip to enjoy your marketing, and the ways in which you can find what feels good to you.

A reflection on 4 years of Goodness Marketing, and the lessons I’ve learned as a person and business owner.

Brand Yourself is a new no-nonsense guide to branding by Lucy Werner and Hadrien Chatelet. In this blog post I chat to Lucy about small business marketing and branding, and why you should put yourself where you don’t belong.

Jodie Thackray from Photo + Flourish shares her experience and evolution of small business marketing in this blog post.

Helen Bee of B Double E shares her small business marketing journey. In this blog, Helen tells us how her strange relationship with marketing has changed, and how she has moved from being uncomfortable with traditional marketing to empowered through ethical marketing.

Small business marketing can feel like an overwhelming job, but as this blog shows, you can break marketing tasks into manageable 5-minute actions that build up to progress over time.

Small business marketing advice from shopkeeper Sarah Laker, who is the owner of Stationery Supplies Marple. In this blog, Sarah shares what has worked for her over the past 15 years and how she has used social media to survive lockdown.

Small businesses approach marketing in different ways, but we can all learn from each other. In this interview, web designer and developer Paul Jardine shares how he does marketing, how that has changed and what he’s learned and achieved over the past 6 years.

The top tools and apps that make small business marketing simpler, easier and more effective, and can save you time and effort.