Download this podcast My guest for the fifth episode of the Design and Marketing podcast is the wonderfully witty Wes McDowell. (Duration: c. 45 minutes.) Wes runs a design shop in Los Angeles, California, and is known for having one of the best design podcasts on iTunes, The … [Read more...]
Helping People as a Business Strategy
There are many reasons to start a business. To make money. To create something. To impact people's lives. Or because working for other people may seem dull and unfulfilling. However, the reasons people stay or are successful in business may change as they progress along their journey. They have … [Read more...]
Five Minute Marketing Tasks to Improve Your Business Now!
You know those little marketing tasks that we keep meaning to do are always pushed to the back of the day's agenda? Sometimes alas, they never get done! I have a challenge for you: perform one of these five minute tasks now. If you hit a road block, leave a comment here and I'll help you. … [Read more...]
“How To Get Clients” eBook
Download full version of How To Get Clients. Download free How To Get Clients chapters here! I am about to unleash my new premium eBook onto the world. I am very excited about this as it's something I have always wanted to do. What's the eBook about? The book will contain step-by-step … [Read more...]
How to Blog for Business
For me, blogging isn't about making money from advertising, affiliate marketing and selling products. It's not about that for the majority of bloggers either. But it is about business. All of my current clients have either contacted me through my website or are a result of a recommendation … [Read more...]
Know Your Visitors – Know Your Customers!
Most websites fail. Why? Because, they don't post regular content that people will want to read. How do you know what people want to read? The answer is to get to know your website's visitors and potential visitors. By knowing your readers, you will hopefully have some idea about your potential … [Read more...]
Freelance graphic design advice
Whether you're a rock star creative in a top-ten agency or a freelancer running a business from home on a shoestring, graphic design is an absorbing, all-encompassing practice. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and therefore disagreements occur and criticism can be hard to take. But it's a great … [Read more...]
How to win traffic and influence markets
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 … [Read more...]
My first free e-book on self-marketing completed
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 something a bit different; to … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #8: How to offer RSS feed and email subscriptions
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 … [Read more...]