Lea Woodward

Welcome! I'm Lea Woodward. I'm the Co-founder of Inspiring Ventures.


I blog here about the ups & downs of finding your own path online - the good, the bad and the ugly, in business and in life.


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In the Flow #6

Each week I share things – experiences, things I’ve read, things I’ve done and more – that have helped me achieve or kept me in the flow. Up this week… #1 Being able to breathe freely …always useful! Since before Christmas, my sinuses have been blocked. I even lost my sense of taste completely for… Continue Reading >>

The Best of 2011

I wasn’t going to write one of these posts but then things kept popping up in my head and so I decided to let them out. Sorry ;) Best Film Over the past couple of years, we haven’t watched many films…probably something to do with the fact that most of our evenings are spent working… Continue Reading >>

2012 in Review (A Preview)

No, I didn’t get the title of this post wrong, I’m doing a slightly different take on the customary “Year in review”/”Plans for this year” type of post ;) What follows is what I hope to be writing this time next year – on the cusp of 2013, looking back at a full year of… Continue Reading >>

Are You Part of the Problem or the Solution?

The headlines are grim…“Unemployment is the world’s fastest-rising fear” and “UK & Europe are set to face an even bigger downturn in 2012“. It is no wonder that an air of fear pervades people with a traditional (or even non-traditional) job when so much scare-mongering goes on in the press. There’s another side of the… Continue Reading >>

Behind the Scenes: A Summary of Online Sales and Promotions Strategies

*** This is for premium subscribers only. Grab your subscription here – it costs less than a cup of decent coffee & slice of your favourite cake. *** You may have noticed that this year we’ve run a lot of promotions. We called each one a “Crazy Pricing Experiment” and the goal was to test… Continue Reading >>