Biography

Listening to what people want and showing them how to achieve it have been common themes in Wendy Hearn’s varied career.

Wendy started her first business at 17 while studying for A-levels.  After completing her education, she began a career in accounting which quickly evolved into helping other businesses particularly with growth and overcoming problems. This progressed to a business running a diet and fitness club, but something was missing.

“I felt there had to be a better way to help people achieve their goals. What often prevented people from achieving their goals were the other things impacting on their lives, such as stress or time-management skills. I didn't know what was available to empower people to make the changes required but I knew there had to be something.”

In 1997 Wendy found her answer as a coach. By focussing on what worked for clients and assisting them to eliminate unnecessary hurdles in their lives she was able to help them to meet their goals. Wendy set up her own business, Wendy Hearn Coaching, after obtaining qualifications in Coach training, and Business and Corporate Coach training from CoachU and Corporate CoachU.

It was Wendy Hearn Coaching that led Wendy to her next great love – websites and the internet.

In 1998 Wendy commissioned someone to design a website for her business.

“Back then, I didn’t know much about websites. It looked good and I began receiving enquires from people who had visited the website. However, I noticed that people seemed to be mentioning counselling, which I didn’t do and wasn’t visibly mentioned anywhere on the site.

“It wasn’t until I learnt more about websites that I realised the person who designed my website had included counselling in my meta tags. When people typed counselling into a search engine, my webpage came up. The person who designed my website hadn’t taken the time to fully understand my business.”

It provided a valuable lesson, and as an internet marketing professional understanding her clients business is always at the forefront of Wendy’s mind when she starts a new project.

Wendy Hearn Marketing assists clients to market their websites, gain greater visitor numbers and convert visitors into sales.

On top of her internet marketing business, Wendy has continued coaching and writes numerous articles. She is also a regular contributor to many publications and publishes her own newsletters. In addition, Wendy has written and sold information products such as e-books and e-courses.

Wendy has won high accolades for her work, including the Small Business Consolidator Award and the overall winners award The Millenium Women at the 2001 Women in Enterprise Awards.

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