[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Twitter, as with all social networking, is only as good as its player. How you use it depends on your mind-set, goals and aspirations, friendly and sociable disposition, altruism and willing...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] I'm doing several website reviews this week. The main brief is to find out whether each website attracts the right kind of customer, and whether the right message is being put...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] In one of the questions I answered in LinkedIn, one responder asked me what I meant by added value. He thought it referred to the difference between the cost price and...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] There are many pros and cons to having a blog. Unfortunately, if you mention blogging to the uninitiated, they immediately think of the cons, partly because they don't know the pros....
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Blogging is definitely a 21st century phenomenon. So why am I thinking of it in Victorian terms? Quite some time ago I posted a question on LinkedIn asking how would a...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] A blog carnival is a great way of getting more traffic to your blog. It is referred to as a blogging event or community, or even a magazine. All these terms...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Blogs are hard work. They require consistent updating to make them successful, and unless you love or excel in writing skills, the effort required can be daunting. Perhaps you feel you...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Someone on LinkedIn asked a question if blogs are businesses. Many of the answers wittered on about affiliate and sponsored advertising, as if making money made your blog a business. I...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] A question from LinkedIn presented this subject, and I duly responded with these following points. They are in no particular order, just as they came out of my head. This information...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Each one of these social networking sites has its own merits when it comes to business use. They are all individual, have a totally different target audience, and have their own...
Many people I speak to – especially the owners of small service businesses – tell...
If I had a pound for every time I’ve heard someone say “I don’t do...
Recently I ran a workshop about the StandOut Strategies for a group of business owners....
