Making Online Business Work Out for You
Imagine how busy you’d have to be in your Bed & Breakfast business to move out of your own bedroom and use it as a guest room. And if you then turfed your daughter out of hers..! Well, that is exactly what Yvonne Halling had to do in 2011. If you don’t know Yvonne Halling yet, she runs Les Molyneux, [...]
I was interested this week to see a blog post from the astrologer, Sally Kirkman, entitled “Who Will Win at the Oscars” in which she used her astrological expertise to predict the winners of the top awards at the ceremony later today. Brave lady or what? If she gets those right not only will there be a long line of [...]
It is rather ironic, and enjoyably so for me, to think that the website that first attracted me to Heather Waring, the coach, would one day be the ‘before’ version of this website makeover story. It was 2000 and having just started training as a coach myself I diligently went in search of a coach online. When I came across [...]
Someone on the Better Blogging group I am running with Judith Morgan, asked a good question today. She wanted to leave a comment on a blog with a link in her comment to Judith’s website. She could see a box below the comment area telling her what HTML she was permitted to use but as she doesn’t speak HTML she [...]
I had a nasty little email arrive in my inbox over the weekend entitled “Domain Notification – This is your Final Notice of Domain Listing”. So I opened it immediately. It’s easy with this sort of official notice to scan and see just a few well-chosen key words. In the extract above you will see they have underlined a sentence [...]
A client who is completely new to WordPress and whose website I’ve just completed asked me this week how to find the URL of a specific page on her new site. It’s not a page that appears in her navbar so she wasn’t sure how to locate it. This two-minute video demonstrates three quick ways you can do this:
Having just this week caught up with Professional Masterchef on the planner and sat gripped through Final week, the whole Masterchef concept is much on my mind. This year the standard of cooking and presentation was higher than it’s ever been – and I couldn’t help thinking how much Masterchef models what we should be doing with the design and [...]
I call it Sod’s Law. Only the day before I had closed the final pages on the brilliant book, “Work the System” and told my entire newsletter list how I was going to improve the systems in my work and home, and now just a few hours later, chaos had descended upon me like an Icelandic ash cloud. My back [...]
Would you like to be a Better Blogger? If so, you might be interested in taking part in a pilot project I have co-created with Judith Morgan of JudithMorgan.com for the month of February. We are inviting people who are serious about improving the quality and quantity of their blogging to commit to: Blogging three times a week on their [...]
Happy new 2012. If you’re like me you have started the new year feeling hopeful, excited, refreshed and ready to grow, I mean both you and your business. Though we might supposedly not enjoy change, we all love a clean start, a fresh page, a new leaf to turn over again. So I’ve raced into action already in week 1 [...]