[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] I often hear people saying they?ve been subjected to ?death by PowerPoint? at some event or other. Lots of other people advise against using PowerPoint because it can be the death...
[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] This was the subject of the presentation I gave at a breakfast networking meeting on 16 June. If you missed it, or if you were there and you'd like a reminder,...
[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] 1. No, you don't need to blow your own trumpet As a Marketing Consultant, I earn a living from telling people about how great my clients are. They pay me to...
[caption id="attachment_337" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Dianne"][/caption] The following week, I was back pounding the streets of Newbury town centre again. My task was to recruit local shops and banking halls to host a local charity event for...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] I just have to share this with you: http://designedbygoodpeople.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/wise-words-from-picasso/ This post was so apt when I read it, it rang all my bells! I expect there have been plenty of times...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] This concept arose from a question I saw in a LinkedIn Group about small businesses wearing too many hats. It also may have been sparked off by Chantal's last post...
[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] When we sent out a press release to local journalists, telling them that I'm writing a book about how to survive ten years in business, one of them asked me to...
[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] Having just sent out a press release about the fact that I?m writing a book, to celebrate ten successful years in business, we had a request from a local journalist for...
Alice has just got back from giving a talk about social networking to a group of home businesses. She concentrated on the main four: Blogging, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook and here's a summary of what she talked...
[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] Every month the team at Appletree gets together to talk about how we?re doing and where we?re going. It?s a great opportunity to share ideas and discuss any issues that have...
USPs (Unique Selling Propositions) don’t work anymore. Why not? Because they’re about selling. They’re not...
The first StandOut Strategy, Certainty, is about being a safe pair of hands for your...
There’s a buying process that everyone goes through when they’re looking to invest in a...
