or something similar. This way you are also able to keep control of the database of your followers. When asked to recommend a book or two to our readers, Cemanthe recommends ‘Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway’ by Susan Jeffers. This book is about being fearful, and accepting that you are having the fear, but then doing things anyway! Her own personal philosophy is that life is too short not to live it, and she applies this to everything that she does – “In accepting that you might feel fear, surprisingly you don’t, and this brings many more opportunities your way!” Another book that she recommends is the book ‘The E-Myth’. This book basically explains about automating your business and how to go from being self-employed (creating a job for yourself) to being a business owner (working on the business instead of in it!).


received? “Don’t let people buy you on price” – she explains this further as potential customers who want to pay less than you’re worth will never be loyal, and will always search elsewhere for a better deal. They also demand more of your time than others.


“Get a contract signed before doing the work” – she learnt this through bitter experience with a client who never paid her for training that she did. As she had no contract, she couldn’t pursue legal action against the client. This was an expensive lesson to learn, but valuable as she now only does business with people who sign the contract and pay upfront.


more on the structure of her business New Media Angels, as she now has two other businesses just starting out. She feels that it is important that this one functions almost on its own with her team able to manage, maintain and look after their clients. She also has various international strategic partnerships in Australia, South Africa and America to work through, and she is looking into taking New Media Angels into South Africa. And after that, she thinks a holiday would be good too. She certainly deserves one with all the effort she puts into her business!


Management Today editor Alan de Sousa Caires. Cemanthe Harries was talking with So, what’s next for Cemanthe Harries? Working And advice that she can give our readers? The most helpful piece of advice that she’s


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