From Chaos to Clarity

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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 [...]

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How to Find a Color Scheme for your Website

Are you struggling to find a great colour scheme for your website, blog or newsletter?  Check out my short video (under 5 mins) for a free and easy-to-use color scheme designer that will give you a fabulous range of colour schemes to choose from. The site in question is called ColorSchemeDesigner.com Hit the ‘play’ button below to view the tutorial [...]

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Lightboxes – How to Create a Lightbox in Istockphoto

A picture tells  a thousand words.  And even those of us whose hearts beat faster in bookstores and fancy we can wield a pen with the best of them, will agree that the right image on a website or blog can only enhance the enjoyment we get from the read. What’s a Lightbox? So today I created this 4-minute video [...]

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Talking Heads – Discovering FotoBabble

I recently came across this little application called Fotobabble which lets you upload a photo, record 60 seconds of audio and then embed the link on your site as I’ve done below, or simply send the link out to your friends, fans or followers. Fotobabble comes up with lots of different ways you might want to use this idea, from [...]

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Frugal – Falling in Love with a WordPress Theme

Let’s not mince words, you’re far too busy.  Me and Frugal are an item.  Yes, I know, it’s ‘only’ a WordPress theme for heaven’s sake but as someone who spends rather a lot of time either creating websites and blogs for clients or working on her own sites, it’s important to work with sharp tools.  And in my opinion, Frugal [...]

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Why I Love Jing – A Picture Tells a Thousand Words

Have you heard of Jing?  Jing is a fantastic little tool that allows you to video your computer screen and share it instantly with anyone you want. You might be wondering why you would need to?  In my own case, when I create a website or blog for a client, I give them a 1-1 tutorial on how to use [...]

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Online Forums – How and Why to Create a Forum for your Online Business

Doing business online (or off-line of course) is all about relationship building.  We generally buy from people and business we know, like and trust – except in situations where our need, or pain, is so enormous we just want to grab the first rope ladder / shovel / dentist we can find. Relationships are a Two Way Street Relationships are [...]

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Starting an Online Business: How Much Money do you Need?

Much is written about starting a business online with no money.  It’s a big part of its attraction for many people.  Lots of the well-known internet marketers have a story in which they were living in their car, surviving on handouts and up to the hilt in debt until discovering the internet and making a large whammy fistful of dollars [...]

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Online Tools – How to Organise People for a Get-Together

If you’ve ever been brow-beaten, hoodwinked or schmoozed into organising a get-together or a group decision, you’ll know this rates high on the stress-o-meter, surely not much less stressful than giving an ill-prepared talk in your pyjamas to a mass of hostile foreigners. In the old days, organising meetings or what-to-buy-old-Fred-who’s-retiring-from-the-postroom decisions would mean an endless revolution of emails, hushed [...]

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