Wisepreneurs is for experienced professionals
building a practice on their own terms

Helping Independent Professionals Thrive in Their 50s, 60s, and Beyond Are you a professional woman in your 50s, 60s, or beyond, with a wealth of expertise in your domain, considering the transition to becoming a self-employed independent professional? Or perhaps you've already made the leap and you would like some expert marketing and business support to help you with your work? My Wisepreneurs Project has been set up to support independent professionals make the shift to self employment. I work with independent professionals, often aged 50-70+, blending strategy, marketing, business mastery, and real-world execution to help you survive, grow, and thrive. My expertise is marketing services earned through working in my company called 13th Beach Marketings Services, named after a famous surf beach in Victoria, close to where I lived when I set up the business. 13th Beach Marketing offers local marketing services, close to where I live. I help my clients get their marketing done. That includes a whole range of services from websites, design, SEO, marketing copywriting, working out strategy, monitor their website traffic and Google Search results. Just about all the things that help them connect with their clients or customers. The Wisepreneurs Project is another direction. Most of my 13th Beach Marketing Services clients are women, depending on the project, they can be employees of the business I look after, or the owner. I am very comfortable working with women and they are my preferred clients. We get on well and work collaboratively. The Wisepreneurs Project champions independent professional women across the world It can be tough making the transition from working in a job to running your own business. Finding the right support can be difficult as there is a lot of choice. That's where my expertise bridges the gap. With extensive experience working with many clients on their marketing, strategy, and marketing execution, I have a good idea of how to understand the route you're mapping out. Championing Professionals Over the years, I've worked closely with professionals who've chose to redefine their paths, either through early retirement or setting out to work on their chosen purpose. Our collaboration starts by exploring, clarifying and mapping out your aspirations (your desired future) and your invaluable insights from your life. Together, we'll map out a practical, doable path to make the best use of your expertise and I will work with you to make it happen. To get the work you love and get paid for it. And, now that we are older, time feels more precious than ever. I can help you get moving on the right things. The Wisepreneurs Project Podcast and Articles The Wisepreneurs podcast offers practical advice tailored for professionals in their 50s, 60s, and beyond who are thinking of working for themselves or becoming independent professionals. I talk to a range of professionals from across the world covering topics such as optimizing your life and work, highlighting productivity, health, cognitive agility, and mastering business, marketing, and knowledge management. The same goes for my blog articles. Thirteenth Beach Marketing Services Pty Ltd Since our inception in April 1999, 13th Beach Marketing expertise spans across a range of online marketing services, from strategic consulting to hands-on implementation. My job is to get marketing things done for you, and if I can't do it, locate someone highly capable to help us Thirteenth Beach Marketing Services Pty Ltd ACN 087278368 ABN 46 087 278 368 13th Beach Marketing is used for all invoicing and contact details. Discover Comprehensive Marketing Solutions at 13th Beach Marketing Services About Us - Wisepreneurs & 13th Beach Marketing Services

About Us

Welcome to Wisepreneurs, a special initiative by 13th Beach Marketing Services Pty Ltd. Our mission is to empower professional women aged 60+ to thrive in their consulting, coaching, advisory, and training businesses. Led by Nigel Rawlins, we offer strategic support, website development, marketing solutions, and ongoing mentorship.

About 13th Beach Marketing Services Pty Ltd

Founded by Nigel Rawlins, 13th Beach Marketing Services Pty Ltd specializes in providing comprehensive marketing solutions, including website development, SEO optimization, and digital marketing strategies. With over 20 years of experience, our team is dedicated to helping businesses enhance their online presence and achieve their marketing goals.

The Wisepreneurs Project

Wisepreneurs is a passion project initiated by Nigel Rawlins under the umbrella of 13th Beach Marketing Services. This initiative focuses on supporting professional women aged 60+ who are venturing into independent consulting, coaching, advisory, and training roles. Through Wisepreneurs, we offer tailored services designed to help these women leverage their expertise, gain strategic insights, and build successful, fulfilling careers.

About Nigel Rawlins

With over two decades in marketing and a deep passion for empowering professionals, I founded 13th Beach Marketing Services to provide top-tier marketing solutions. My journey led me to create Wisepreneurs, a project close to my heart, aimed at helping senior professional women navigate and succeed in their independent ventures. My expertise spans across business strategy, website development, SEO, and digital marketing.

Our Mission and Vision

At 13th Beach Marketing Services, our mission is to help businesses establish a strong online presence and achieve their marketing goals through innovative solutions and personalized support. The vision for Wisepreneurs is to create a community where professional women aged 60+ can thrive, leveraging their wisdom and experience to build successful, sustainable careers.

Client Testimonials

"Nigel's guidance is invaluable for those seeking a career pivot or progression. His expertise in marketing and business strategy has been a game-changer for my business." - Anthea Green, Experienced Non-Executive Director and CEO

"Working with 13th Beach Marketing Services has significantly improved our online presence. Nigel's insights and hands-on support are exceptional." - Client Name

Get in Touch

If you're ready to take your business to the next level or learn more about Wisepreneurs, contact us today. Let's start a conversation and explore how we can help you achieve your goals.

Contact Us
Helping Independent Professionals Thrive in Their 50s, 60s, and Beyond Are you a professional woman in your 50s, 60s, or beyond, with a wealth of expertise in your domain, considering the transition to becoming a self-employed independent professional? Or perhaps you've already made the leap and you would like some expert marketing and business support to help you with your work? My Wisepreneurs Project has been set up to support independent professionals make the shift to self employment. I work with independent professionals, often aged 50-70+, blending strategy, marketing, business mastery, and real-world execution to help you survive, grow, and thrive. My expertise is marketing services earned through working in my company called 13th Beach Marketings Services, named after a famous surf beach in Victoria, close to where I lived when I set up the business. 13th Beach Marketing offers local marketing services, close to where I live. I help my clients get their marketing done. That includes a whole range of services from websites, design, SEO, marketing copywriting, working out strategy, monitor their website traffic and Google Search results. Just about all the things that help them connect with their clients or customers. The Wisepreneurs Project is another direction. Most of my 13th Beach Marketing Services clients are women, depending on the project, they can be employees of the business I look after, or the owner. I am very comfortable working with women and they are my preferred clients. We get on well and work collaboratively. The Wisepreneurs Project champions independent professional women across the world It can be tough making the transition from working in a job to running your own business. Finding the right support can be difficult as there is a lot of choice. That's where my expertise bridges the gap. With extensive experience working with many clients on their marketing, strategy, and marketing execution, I have a good idea of how to understand the route you're mapping out. Championing Professionals Over the years, I've worked closely with professionals who've chose to redefine their paths, either through early retirement or setting out to work on their chosen purpose. Our collaboration starts by exploring, clarifying and mapping out your aspirations (your desired future) and your invaluable insights from your life. Together, we'll map out a practical, doable path to make the best use of your expertise and I will work with you to make it happen. To get the work you love and get paid for it. And, now that we are older, time feels more precious than ever. I can help you get moving on the right things. The Wisepreneurs Project Podcast and Articles The Wisepreneurs podcast offers practical advice tailored for professionals in their 50s, 60s, and beyond who are thinking of working for themselves or becoming independent professionals. I talk to a range of professionals from across the world covering topics such as optimizing your life and work, highlighting productivity, health, cognitive agility, and mastering business, marketing, and knowledge management. The same goes for my blog articles. Thirteenth Beach Marketing Services Pty Ltd Since our inception in April 1999, 13th Beach Marketing expertise spans across a range of online marketing services, from strategic consulting to hands-on implementation. My job is to get marketing things done for you, and if I can't do it, locate someone highly capable to help us Thirteenth Beach Marketing Services Pty Ltd ACN 087278368 ABN 46 087 278 368 13th Beach Marketing is used for all invoicing and contact details. Discover Comprehensive Marketing Solutions at 13th Beach Marketing Services About Us - Wisepreneurs & 13th Beach Marketing Services

About Us

Welcome to Wisepreneurs, a special initiative by 13th Beach Marketing Services Pty Ltd. Our mission is to empower professional women aged 60+ to thrive in their consulting, coaching, advisory, and training businesses. Led by Nigel Rawlins, we offer strategic support, website development, marketing solutions, and ongoing mentorship.

About 13th Beach Marketing Services Pty Ltd

Founded by Nigel Rawlins, 13th Beach Marketing Services Pty Ltd specializes in providing comprehensive marketing solutions, including website development, SEO optimization, and digital marketing strategies. With over 20 years of experience, our team is dedicated to helping businesses enhance their online presence and achieve their marketing goals.

The Wisepreneurs Project

Wisepreneurs is a passion project initiated by Nigel Rawlins under the umbrella of 13th Beach Marketing Services. This initiative focuses on supporting professional women aged 60+ who are venturing into independent consulting, coaching, advisory, and training roles. Through Wisepreneurs, we offer tailored services designed to help these women leverage their expertise, gain strategic insights, and build successful, fulfilling careers.

About Nigel Rawlins

With over two decades in marketing and a deep passion for empowering professionals, I founded 13th Beach Marketing Services to provide top-tier marketing solutions. My journey led me to create Wisepreneurs, a project close to my heart, aimed at helping senior professional women navigate and succeed in their independent ventures. My expertise spans across business strategy, website development, SEO, and digital marketing.

Our Mission and Vision

At 13th Beach Marketing Services, our mission is to help businesses establish a strong online presence and achieve their marketing goals through innovative solutions and personalized support. The vision for Wisepreneurs is to create a community where professional women aged 60+ can thrive, leveraging their wisdom and experience to build successful, sustainable careers.

Client Testimonials

"Nigel's guidance is invaluable for those seeking a career pivot or progression. His expertise in marketing and business strategy has been a game-changer for my business." - Anthea Green, Experienced Non-Executive Director and CEO

"Working with 13th Beach Marketing Services has significantly improved our online presence. Nigel's insights and hands-on support are exceptional." - Client Name

Get in Touch

If you're ready to take your business to the next level or learn more about Wisepreneurs, contact us today. Let's start a conversation and explore how we can help you achieve your goals.

Contact Us

About Wisepreneurs

Wisepreneurs exists because of a problem that standard business advice doesn't address.

After 20 or 30 years in a field, you've developed something genuinely valuable: the judgment, pattern recognition, and contextual understanding that only comes from sustained professional practice.

Cognitive scientists call it crystallised intelligence. It's the ability to walk into a situation and know what matters before the formal analysis catches up.

This expertise is not just personally valuable. It is structurally irreplaceable.

Recent research in philosophy, neuroscience, and labour economics converges on a single finding:
AI systems produce answers by stripping away exactly the things that make your judgment valuable: the context, the embodied understanding, the pattern recognition built through decades of practice. At the same time, the traditional pathways for developing this kind of expertise, the apprenticeships, the hands-on learning, the years of working alongside experienced practitioners, are being disrupted by the same AI adoption that is increasing demand for what you know.

The result: your accumulated expertise is an appreciating asset. The market increasingly values the capabilities you've built. But most experienced professional women struggle to articulate those capabilities in terms that let the right people find them. This is not a marketing problem. It is an articulation problem. You are trying to describe a relational quality, the way your judgment interacts with specific problems, using object language:
"I have thirty years of experience." Your expertise manifests through interaction, through the way you read a room, reframe questions, and notice patterns others miss. That is why articulating it clearly is genuinely difficult.

Wisepreneurs addresses both sides of this challenge. Through articles, research, and the Wisepreneurs Podcast, I provide the intellectual framework for understanding why your expertise matters and how to position it. Through the Marketing Partnership, I build the practical infrastructure, your website, your content, your knowledge products, that lets the right people find you and experience the quality of your judgment for themselves.

About Nigel Rawlins

I've worked with independent professionals and professional services businesses for over 25 years, and continue to do so through 13th Beach Marketing Services.

What I do is marketing partnership: positioning, content strategy, website development, productisation, and coordinating specialist teams.
I build WordPress sites using Thrive Themes because they're fast, professional, and easily updated without ongoing developer costs.
The technology is straightforward by design, which means the investment goes into the strategic thinking, research-grounded SEO, and content architecture rather than technical overhead.

I also help clients turn how they think about problems into publishable knowledge products: ebooks, guides, and diagnostic tools that work as permanent business assets.

The reason I see things a standard marketing agency would miss is years of research into how professional expertise manifests through interaction.
85+ podcast conversations with practitioners, published research in cognitive science and strategic thinking, and watching what happens when accomplished women try to build independent practices around accumulated wisdom.

That research is why I can see:

  • Why your expertise resists commoditisation
  • Where the AI economy is creating advantage for women like you
  • How to create the conditions under which the market experiences what your clients already know

I work with one to three clients at a time on 12-month marketing partnerships. These are long-term collaborations where value builds over time. Everything we build together, the manifesto, the website, the content, the knowledge products, belongs to you and strengthens your practice whether or not we continue working together.

I also run the Wisepreneurs Podcast and publish regularly on the topics that matter most to experienced professional women navigating the AI era.

All work is invoiced through 13th Beach Marketing Services Pty Ltd, ACN 087278368.
Established 1999, Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.

Ready to explore?
Ready to explore? If you want to explore whether there is a fit, book a free 30-minute conversation or visit the Marketing Partnership page to see the full scope of how I work.