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 …
Yesterday I was browsing through the apps on my iPad, and I came across one I downloaded a while ago but hadn’t yet had a play with – Haiku Deck. As there was nothing on the telly I spent a few minutes messing around with it – and quickly discovered that it lets you create …
The landscape of publishing has changed completely, and along with the digital revolution, new job roles have come along too. Amongst them is the role of the book coach. While there are plenty of book coaches around, it’s not a job title that everyone has come across, and every book coach will offer a unique …
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 …
We keep hearing how social media is good for business, but have you ever considered the negative effects it could have – especially on your health? Read on to find out more in this interesting guest blog post … It’s hard to deny the growing presence of social media in our lives and brands have …
Do you use interviews to promote your business, increase traffic to your website or raise your profile? When I was writing my book I wanted to include chapters written from the perspective of my children, but I knew I didn’t have a chance in hell of getting either of them to actually write anything! So …
I got into a bit of a fix the other week. I was made a great offer for a training course I really wanted to do but I needed to pay for it quickly. And as every small business owner knows, cashflow can be a problem. I had cheques to pay in and client invoices …
Morgen Bailey runs an incredible writing website for authors, where she has a variety of author support groups for every genre of writing as well as a number of marketing opportunities for authors. If you’ve written a book or are thinking about writing one, I can highly recommend the site! Anyway, at the weekend she …
Time for a guest blog post, and this one, by Allan Smith of Virtuoso, looks at affiliate marketing and how you can use it to grow your business. I have had some limited success on the other end of affiliate marketing – selling other people’s products for a commission – and this post definitely got …
I’ve heard a lot of people talk about “book trailers” recently and I have to admit I was a bit confused. I know what film trailers are all about but why on earth would you create one for a book? But then again, I thought, why not? When you think about it, a film trailer …
