How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the bestselling self-help books ever published. Written by Dale Carnegie in 1937, it has sold 15 million copies. “[Dale Carnegie] changed my life” Warren Buffett, one of the world’s wealthiest people and most generous philanthropist of all time. The book isn’t about how to be [...]
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Article filed under: Business, Internet, Marketing, Self improvement on August 10th, 2010 7 Comments
I haven’t written as many posts as I would have liked on this blog in the last couple of months. The reason? I have been creating an e-book which will be used as an incentive for join my mailing list. It’s ready now! Why did I do this? Many reasons … I wanted to do [...]
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Article filed under: InDesign, Internet, Marketing on April 7th, 2010 6 Comments
If you have any sort of professional website I would advise you to include a testimonial page to promote your business. I think it’s always good to see if someone has been recommended and interesting to see by whom. It’s something that could separate you from the competition. Have a look at my client testimonials [...]
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Article filed under: Business, Marketing on January 25th, 2010 10 Comments
The huge advances of social media sites show a transformation from media monologues to dialogues which will define human communication of the early 21st century. An overwhelming majority of marketers say they are now using some form of social media to market their business. Social media is an almost “must-have” for any small business because [...]
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Article filed under: Internet, Marketing, Social media on January 14th, 2010 23 Comments
You’ve got a beautiful website and blog and you want people to contact you, either by phone or email. What do you do? Everyone has a contact page on their website. OK, maybe not everyone, but you should have one, really. Here are some really important points to think about when you’re doing your contact [...]
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Article filed under: Internet, Marketing on September 14th, 2009 6 Comments
So you’ve got your self-hosted WordPress blog set up, optimized and have already published a few great posts and you want to offer an RSS feed and email subscription to your posts. What is RSS? RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication and is a format used to publish frequently updated content from the web on [...]
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Article filed under: Design, Internet, Marketing, WordPress on August 3rd, 2009 6 Comments
How long has it been since you first used the internet? How much have your habits of information gathering changed since then? If you’re anything like me a myriad of different interests discovered on the internet crowd your mind as well as the exciting new ways you find out about them. The future is on [...]
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Article filed under: Design, Internet, Marketing on July 6th, 2009 1 Comment
I have been asked to help publish a magazine by a hospital radio station. Anyone who has had any sort of stay in a hospital will tell you that hospital radio with it’s music, news and entertainment is a welcome diversion at a difficult time. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital One of the bigger hospitals in [...]
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Article filed under: Business, Design, Marketing on April 9th, 2009 8 Comments
I did this lectern idea for a company that did events where entrepreneurs pitch to investors. People from the UK will be familiar with this notion from the Dragons’ Den TV show. I’ve been a big fan of the show and I’ve always wondered how I would fair pitching a business idea. I would do [...]
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Article filed under: Business, Internet, Marketing, Photoshop on April 2nd, 2009 17 Comments
There are two sides of a coin when considering how to market your site on the internet. Firstly, concentrate on the site itself: write regularly updated quality content and optimize the site for search engines. Secondly, by concentrating off the site: getting quality sites to link to yours. Introduction As I’ve said before in this [...]
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Article filed under: Internet, Marketing, SEO on February 9th, 2009 51 Comments
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