Now What? Strategies

It’s what we say when the penny – or the other shoe – drops.
When the smooth ride becomes a downhill slide.
When we hit the learning curve way too fast.

Now What? Strategies rescue ideas gone wrong, careers gone flat and business concepts whose time has passed. With one eye on emerging trends, we help you refocus your goals and redefine your priorities to better serve your evolving needs. By developing custom-fit solutions, we help you showcase, promote and support your strengths.

What’s involved?
Think of a Now What? Strategy as a renovation project… a one-of-a-kind make-over process that can finesse your ideas, improve your bottom line and fast-track your rise to the top. Less costly than starting from scratch, your Now What? unfolds in three manageable steps:

1. Goal-setting… First we discuss and develop relevant, realistic goals. The key to success is the win/win scenario. Because ‘no man is an island’, it’s not enough that you have a dream. Your dream has to matter to them. We teach you what it means to be ‘the low-hanging fruit’;
2. Planning… Next, we design a step-by-step blueprint that’s easy to follow. Most plans fail because they’re time vampires that take over your life. We show you how to keep it simple and get it done, one manageable step at a time;
3. Strategic thinking… We set priorities, define your brand and target your market. Why does this matter? Because you’re different. You’re unique. You need a strategy that serves and supports you. We help you find your niche and identify the methods and models best suited to you.

Where to start before you start…To be successful, you need to start with the end in mind. You need a big picture vision, a clear set of steps and the tools and talents best suited to the tasks assigned. If you skip any of these essential ingredients, your recipe for success will fall flat. Guaranteed.

The GPS for your Success… Now What? is all about next steps. We start where you are – right now, today – and design workable, cost-effective plans.

What do you get? Most importantly, you get where you want to go! We get you unstuck, keeping the best, replacing the rest, blending the new seamlessly with the old to create a smarter plan.

Abby Hagyard

Abby is an entrepreneur. Her focus is communications. She learned to create popular, innovative ideas during her career as a writer, producer and entertainer, creating award-winning stage, TV and radio shows for audiences in Canada and around the world.

The key to Abby’s success – and that of her clients – is her proven ability to engage audiences and step into her clients’ shoes, visualizing their unique challenges and creating perfect-fit solutions.

Today, Abby consults on a global scale. Strategic planning, branding and creative content are her specialties.

Hi, I’m Abby –

My journey began as an exercise in profiling, planning and shaping my own career. Armed with a single shrewd strategy and a little black dress, I built a show biz success…

As a profiler/planner, I’ve shaped dozens of start-up careers, from coaching to cosmetics, marinas to models, hospitality to home-baking and more…

As a writer-for-hire, I step into the shoes of my clients, crafting content their readers can’t put down…

And now here we are. It’s just the two of us – me and you.

We hear a lot of talk about “hitting the ground running”. It takes planning to do that. My goal is to give you exactly what you need. I don’t want to slow you down or hold you back. We begin with a one-on-one consultation to figure out where you are and what it’s going to take to get you on the right track. The real work begins after that.

So What’s Next?

First, you should check me out by visiting other pages on the site.
Then, make a list of questions so we can talk about solutions that work for you.
After that, we set up a time. You get the first 30 minutes on my dime.
The balance of the call is on you – $100 plus handling charges.
International clients pay via PayPal; Canadians pay by Interac e-mail.

I can’t wait… can you?