[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] As the recession deepens (and all those BNI types who still testify that there isn't a recession, wake up and smell the coffee), businesses are starting to appear a mite desperate....
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Reading through the LinkedIn Groups a question grabbed my attention. It was a lady who was obsessed with setting up a series of fancy designed monetized blogs. As well as wavering...
[caption id="attachment_1403" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has announced that its remit is being extended to cover marketing on websites. From March 1 2011, marketing communications on your website and in other places...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Twitter is designed for communication and interaction. It isn't somewhere just to tweet about what you're doing or to thrust your latest blog post into the limelight. This is as bad as putting up...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] For those who don't already know, #ff is a hashtag that stands for 'follow friday'. It is a fun gimmick that adds to the sociability element of Twitter, typically used on...
[caption id="attachment_1403" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] You need a new website. You?ve asked a web developer to pitch for the job but you don't speak fluent ?tech?. How do you know what to ask for? Here are...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Businesses have a varied view of what marketing is for, and how it can be used, and it invariably depends on their financial position, the product or service they are promoting,...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] In my spare time I read all sort of things, and one of them is the National Trust magazine. It has recently been redesigned, bright, colourful and modern, but the thing...
[caption id="attachment_1403" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] Do you recognise this scenario? You start your business and you?re not very busy, so you do lots of marketing ? going networking, sending newsletters and mail shots and all the...
[caption id="attachment_337" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Dianne"][/caption] So people can follow you on Twitter, view your Linkedin profile, stay as your friend on Facebook, find out what you like to read by viewing your Delicious bookmarks, now what...
A couple of years ago I ran my StandOut Strategies workshop for a CEO group...
I write a lot about how your business can stand out, win new clients and...
Many people I speak to – especially the owners of small service businesses – tell...
