When I happened upon Hootsuite to schedule updates for the first time – covering for our Marketing Manager in a previous job – my mind was blown. Suddenly I realised the potential of being able to plan my Social Media marketing, instead of being inconsistent and ad-hoc. […]
“A child who reads will be an adult who thinks.” This is the inspiration behind the next in my series of Passion Projects. Sarah Corcoran has been a book lover all her life. She’s the brains behind the website database ‘Children’s Book Sequels’. My favourite quote from her response […]
I recently met Leanne, of Purple Frogs Virtual Assistants (great name), at a ‘Blogging for Business’ workshop I was running on behalf of Women Mean Biz. She was so open to helping the others in the group during that session, I could see she had a natural talent for […]
In many ways, my business journey has been on a parallel thread to the next business I’m proud to feature as a Passion Project I first met Hils Crisp when I was a Trainer at an Enterprise Agency and she came to our events. As a trainer, you can’t […]
While I know the basics to give your blogs their best chance to be discovered by Google, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is an ever evolving discipline with more and more tools and techniques for great quality content to be found and shared. Today I’m hosting a contributor to the blog, […]
After three years of redundancy warnings every few months, when the seventh one actually happened in 2015, I vowed I would never work for anyone else ever again. I’d finally escaped! The fear of ‘lack’ stopped me from taking the hint the first six times and stepping into the dark […]
I’m unashamedly a lover of stationery. The shelves of my office and art room are sagging under the weight of notebooks, sketchpads and boxes of pens. Words And Pictures As a writer, but a visual learner, words create pictures for me. I describe my fiction writing as playing out […]
You never write a blog post once. Everything you create you can repurpose. That’s why ‘R’ is for Repurpose in my A to Z of Blogging Series. Intellectual Property Has Value When you’ve written it yourself, you own the ‘Intellectual Property’ of that work. It’s your copyrighted material. There is […]
I was a pretty weird kid, ‘quirky’ you might say. My siblings would probably agree that all things considered, we were a weird family. One of my many nicknames was Linus because I never went anywhere without my blanket. via GIPHY I didn’t suck my thumb like normal kids, no, […]
Hosting another contributor to the blog today. A differnt perspective on how blogging can benefit your business. Why Blogging is Great to Improve Your Brand Awareness For SMEs (small businesses), producing regular high-quality content on their site is a big demand. Copywriters are often a luxury some smaller […]
