We all have our own favourite online business tools – websites and applications that help us run our business just that bit more efficiently. Today I wanted to share three of my favourite tools with you. You may already use Dropbox, Buffer App and Twitterfeed, but if you don’t, they’re well worth investigating – I …
If you’re in business, you need to get sales – that’s obvious. Yet sales skills are often the one area that people struggle with. In this guest blog post, Adam Stevens offers a few simple tips to help you improve the sales experience for you and your customers. If you are in business for yourself, then you’ll …
When it comes to blogging for business, one of the biggest problems people have is knowing what to write about. At the recent Social Media Insight Day I spoke at I came up with a few exercises to get the creative juices flowing, and everyone found them really useful. (There’s another one coming up in …
I’m often asked what people should tweet about, and I recommend they view social media as a form of online networking and use it in the same way they use networking – to make connections, build relationships, raise profiles and have some fun. So talk on Twitter in the same way you’d talk at a networking …
… or maybe this should actually be called “How to write a best seller without knowing the first thing about writing”! You can’t fail to have heard about the 50 Shades of Grey phenomenon. You know, the pornographic erotic novels about Christian Grey, the man every woman I know seems to be swooning over even …
So many people still rely on built-in spell checkers to “proofread” important documents – here’s proof that you should never rely on a spell checker. Instead, consider using a professional proofreader – it won’t cost as much as you think, and you’ll have peace of mind that your words are perfect! The above video is also a good …
Google has introduced some new features to its Analytics tool that let you see where your web visitors go. In the past you could see which pages people entered your site on, and where they left, but the new Flow tools now let you see where they went next, and it’s quite compulsive viewing. To demonstrate, here’s …
Time for a guest blogger – Nick Rink is an SEO expert based in London, and in this post he explores what local SEO is and how business owners can use it to boost their website ranking and traffic. So you’re a local business owner and you’re starting to seriously think about tapping into the …
My partner and I spent a day in London at Tate Modern the other week, trying to work out what the heck the Damian Hirst exhibition was all about. While we were in the capital we decided to go out for a meal, and I used my iPhone to find a restaurant. Eventually we spotted …
Yesterday I was thrilled to be speaking at A Social Media Insight Day, a new event organised by Ant Hodges of HodgesNet. I’ve known Ant a while now and was really excited when he asked me to run a practical blogging workshop as part of the event. I’ve never run anything like that before – …
