“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad” I do enjoy a pub quiz. It was a regular event when we had a lodger living with us. Pitting our knowledge against fellow drinkers in a local pub, my hairless-husband was […]
A letter drifted through my letterbox from Bristol City Council. Now, I’d consider myself to be a reasonably literate and educated person. I’m no brain of Britain, but as a word weaver, it takes a lot for me to struggle to interpret a piece of writing. However, this particular letter […]
I have an early school memory – I must have been 5 or 6 – of the teacher blowing my mind with a simple technique to draw a tree. Overnight, the trees in my pictures went from a blob with a stick coming out of the bottom to something much […]
Can You Ever be Too Helpful? I wrestle with this idea a lot in my business. Which is why H is for Helpful in my A to Z of Blogging. On the one hand, my 3 golden rules of blogging are: Give Give Give On the other, I had frank […]
G is for Google on my A to Z of Blogging The Googlebot is a hungry beast. It scuttles around the internet 3.7 million times a minute – it’s one speedy critter! It voraciously searches for content – the food of the web – and brings it back to its […]
F is for Facts in the A-Z Blogging Opinions or Facts? It’s been years since I watched “the news”. The word ‘news’ needs to be in quotation marks because in this age of 24-hour ‘news’ it’s amazing how tenuous some of the topics are that pass as ‘news’! How […]
Talking to a business colleague recently, she asked me, “are you getting in your own way in your business?” I had to be honest and say, “yes”. When you work for yourself, you are both the biggest asset and the biggest liability to your business! Self-Sabotage Becomes An Art […]
Tapping into your own innate creativity adds sparkle to your blogs. I firmly believe that everyone is creative, at least to some degree. Being creative is a natural human instinct. The misunderstanding, the disbelief, occurs because when we talk about creativity, we immediately think of artists, musicians, designers, painters, sculptors, […]
Blogging has many benefits – sometimes they are quite unexpected! I shared my Massive List Of Reasons To Blog recently, but in this context I mean the benefits of what you do as a business… If someone asks me what they should blog about, I’ll invariably tell them to blog […]
Authenticity is the new buzzword in Content Marketing, everyone’s talking about it (how inauthentic of them). A for Authenticity: The A-Z of Blogging But, what do we really mean when we talk about being authentic on your blog? I don’t have all the answers, but I’m pretty sure there’s […]
