The knowledgeable & generous Adam W. Warner of WPProBusiness.com (author of the very useful Facebook business page guide I reviewed last year) is running a huge WP Giveaway for the next 2 weeks, starting today Feb 15th. You can enter any number of times & the lists of prizes up for grabs is truly amazing [...]
Continue reading...30. April 2011
Phew, last post of the 30-day Ultimate Blogging Challenge! I didn’t make all 30 days, but I do hope you all learned a lot from the posts during April! Anyway, on to today’s topic: I’ve been commenting on blogs for a few years now, and I remember seeing that a few of the commentators had [...]
Continue reading...27. April 2011
I’m going to take as my inspiration today, a post by a friend & coach, Wendy Ager, who did a very useful talk at my networking meeting yesterday, and then blogged about one of her points, “Knowledge is Power“, today. It got me thinking about how much we forget we DO know… about life, the [...]
Continue reading...20. April 2011
Do you wonder what people are saying about on the world wide web? In earlier posts on this blog I’ve mentioned the importance of managing your brand and your reputation, but it’s not always easy to check … if you even remember to try! Google Alerts is a really useful (free) Google service that allows [...]
Continue reading...18. April 2011
Today I’m going to write a little more personally about business, instead of yet another (admittedly handy!!) technical tip. It’s all very well having loads of technical know-how and marketing tips, or knowing a fair bit about social media or SEO, but sometimes being in business on your own can just be tough! And having [...]
Continue reading...13. April 2011
How many times do you have to use that option when trying to log on to a website? And how many of you resort to using very easy passwords? And how many of you then end up using the same easy password across just about every site you need to log in to? I’m [...]
Continue reading...10. April 2011
Hello again, Michelle’s “blog tip” for today, Day 10 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge is to write about a business product that has changed your business… and I definitely have one!! I get a lot of questions about small things that clients aren’t sure about, or can’t remember how to do – and instead of [...]
Continue reading...9. April 2011
Hello again, Well, I’m a bit behind on my Ultimate Blog Challenge schedule – no Friday post, as I had major computer problems (something to with graphics cards or something) which resulted in me having to wipe the computer completely & start from scratch with the factory-settings disc – VERY tough when my livelihood [...]
Continue reading...9. February 2011
It seems to be the week to rant …. firstly about scammers… and now about hackers. One of my clients has had her business site hacked & destroyed, and we’re having to get it going from backups. Unfortunately she hadn’t taken regular hosting backups (something I strongly recommend) so we’re having to go back to [...]
Continue reading...7. February 2011
A word of advice… DO NOT GO ANYWHERE NEAR the Domain Renewal Group (DRG), if you do happen to receive a letter from them!!!!! They are a bunch of scam-artists – a friend is still struggling to get back her money from them. Funnily enough I received a letter from them today too, as did [...]
Continue reading...4. February 2011
Here in the UK, the law is set to change on March 1st 2011 … and it affects businesses with websites! The ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) is having its remit extended, to include marketing on websites, in less than a month. This means that anyone promoting products or services with false promises, unrealistic claims and [...]
Continue reading...31. January 2011
I know this isn’t SEO- or blogging-related at all, but as you’re reading my website (or email or Twitter) from a computer, this article may well be quite important to you! Here in the UK, the BBC published a story today about a bug in Microsoft that has the potential to impact all Windows users, [...]
Continue reading...10. January 2011
Hi everyone Here’s a new post on an old topic that crops up regularly when I chat to my clients: what is RSS? Many people either just don’t know, or are confused by what they’ve been told… so here is a short video that I hope will explain the advantages, to both website owners AND [...]
Continue reading...22. October 2010
I’ve been a Google user for many years now, but only for a few of their core services such as Gmail and Analytics. In the last couple of years I’ve been subscribing to a new service every few months, to get to know how they work – and there are some pretty handy productivity tools out there!
Continue reading...20. October 2010
Some of you may have heard about the latest release of Easy Video Player – it’s a great tool if you do a lot of video creation, and the video I’ve done for you today shows a fantastic tool that will transform your videos into Lead Generation tools! Imagine being able to have your Aweber [...]
Continue reading...8. October 2010
A bit of whimsy for a Friday afternoon! ————————————– If you enjoyed this, please share it using any of the buttons below And get in touch via the comments box below, or drop me an email! Wishing you success…
Continue reading...6. October 2010
Hi everyone, I thought Id’ post a slightly different type of post today – more mindset than website I’ve been taking part in a discussion on LinkedIn on the subject of “What are we really worth”, which focusses on how people often find it challenging to put a monetary value on the work they do [...]
Continue reading...27. August 2010
I’ve had a lot of really positive feedback on the video blogging I do on this blog, so I thought I’d show you how quick & easy it is to upload your own video from your computer. Video is becoming increasingly popular on many websites, and none more so than YouTube. YouTube is now used [...]
Continue reading...18. August 2010
Sometimes it’s handy to have an electronic version of your signature – whether it’s to sign off posts you’ve done, sign your autoresponder emails, or any other sort of personalisation. I’ve found a very handy little site where you can get your own basic signature for free – either computer generated (with a fair bit [...]
Continue reading...11. July 2010
All over the Northern Hemisphere, people are preparing for their summer holidays… All over the Northern Hemisphere, bloggers are panicking about how to keep their subscribers happy while they’re on the beach… no sane blogger wants beach sand in the laptop! Watch this video to find out one WordPress solution to the problem!
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