How Could You Monetise Your Blog? So you started a blog to grow your business? But what if the blog itself could earn you money? Tips and inspiration from a contributor… (Quick Read, Contributed Content) Image source Everyone needs to and likes to make money. We all […]
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 […]
E is for Expertise in my A to Z of Blogging… Expertise in Action This Summer, I was at a garden party for my sister’s birthday (she’s Artist Chloe Birnie). We sat on makeshift chairs around a blazing firepit in her garden in Devon, surrounded by her friends and family, […]
As we rapidly approach the end of the year (and before silly season starts), November is a great time to be looking ahead to 2019. Have you planned your own personal development? Where do you want your business to be next year? What do you want to achieve? What goals […]
(A 5-minute read or a 25-minute video…) We all have a little creative magic inside of us, if we dig deeply enough. I firmly believe that we are all born creative and reading ‘Out Of Our Minds: Learning To Be Creative’ by Ken Robinson is backing up that belief. Watch […]
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 […]
