Is Your Business Due for a Facelift?

A business facelift

When should you consider a facelift for your business? Our businesses naturally evolve, and we grow as individuals in skill, knowledge and experience. But are we demonstrating that to everyone else? At some point, you must concede that the messages Continue reading Is Your Business Due for a Facelift?

Outsourcing for Small Businesses – is it possible?

Wearing many hats. Outsourcing for Small Businesses

I’m very fond of hats! You’ll have noticed on my website, many pictures of me sporting my favourite fedora. People know me for my hats. When you work for yourself, wearing many hats becomes part of your reality, especially in Continue reading Outsourcing for Small Businesses – is it possible?

A Simple Tool To Come Up With Blog Ideas (A-Z of Blogging)

How to create an idea tree

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 Continue reading A Simple Tool To Come Up With Blog Ideas (A-Z of Blogging)

Facts Vs Opinion (A-Z of Blogging)

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 Continue reading Facts Vs Opinion (A-Z of Blogging)

Bringing Your Expertise To Your Blogs (A-Z of Blogging)

Share your expertise with confidence on your blog

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 Continue reading Bringing Your Expertise To Your Blogs (A-Z of Blogging)

Add A Little Magic To Your Blog

Improve the quality of your blogs by using a little storyteller's magic

(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 Continue reading Add A Little Magic To Your Blog

Get It Done! Don’t Self-Sabotage Your Blog (A-Z of Blogging)

Chequered flag get it done you win

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 Continue reading Get It Done! Don’t Self-Sabotage Your Blog (A-Z of Blogging)

Bring Creativity To Your Blog (A-Z of Blogging)

Can you learn creativity

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 Continue reading Bring Creativity To Your Blog (A-Z of Blogging)

Features Vs Benefits – What To Blog About (A-Z of Blogging)

What to blog about features vs benefits

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 Continue reading Features Vs Benefits – What To Blog About (A-Z of Blogging)

Email Tips For Start-Ups: A Guest Post

email tips for startups

  Email Marketing is a powerful tool… When Melissa of Literary Book Gifts reached out to me over email, I wanted to help her fledgling business because I thought the products looked really cool.   I love a new and Continue reading Email Tips For Start-Ups: A Guest Post