Back in 2011 a fellow proofreader, Liz Broomfield of Libro Editing, launched a “Small Business Chat” feature on her blog, where she interviews a different small business owner every week about why they started their business, how they’ve grown it, where they want it to go and what lessons they’ve learnt along the way. The …
At the start of the year I and five other business owners set ourselves some goals for 2013. The idea was that if we put our goals “out there” we’d be more likely to accomplish them – because it would provide a kind of accountability. So here we are, almost at the end of June …
Earlier this month was a sad day for me – the last of the regular Mastermind meetings that I attend. A couple of years ago five networking acquaintances decided to get together once a monthly for a “”Mastermind” type meeting. I was one of the five; the others were an administrator, an accountant, a marketing …
No, what I mean is, what do you REALLY do? What do you know? And how can you use that knowledge to benefit your clients? I recently started selling something more like a “consultancy” service, offering one to one training, support and advice on various aspects of online marketing. Consultancy work is not something I’ve …
Time for a guest blog post, this time from Tim Lyon. Tim has an interesting story on how a high street store lost his custom because of their lack of negotiation skills – and gives some advice on how to negotiate a sale. At a recent Negotiation Skills Workshop I was asked whether an attempted …
Having been a pretty active networker for around 5 years now I’ve met people from a wide range of businesses and though I meet some wonderful people, there’s not often an occasion where they tell me about their product or service and it really makes me go, “Wow!” Yet exactly that happened today at 4Networking …
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 …
Make It Happen Monday (otherwise known as MIHM) is a new event from the brains behind 4Networking, a business networking organisation with over 300 linked groups around the UK. I’ve attended three MIHM events at Swindon now (actually in Highworth, but that’s just a technicality!) and thought it was time I did a little review. The first point to …
The forthcoming EU cookie law, which comes into effect on 26th May 2012 means that any company using cookies on their website for anything other than essential functionality needs to request permission from the user to allow cookies to be sent. There are a few ways you can do that. You can include information about …
You’ll probably find it does. Cookies are small text files placed on a visitor’s computer to “remember” their visit. They’re used for all sorts of things from remembering goods in a basket to speeding up the process of leaving blog comments to enabling social media sharing. They’re also used by analytics software such as Google …
