This is the second article in a series I am writing aimed at exhibitors at We Mean Business, an exhibition organised by the FSB that takes place in Croydon in November.  The article has been adapted slightly from the original, so that it is meaningful for whatever exhibition you might be attending.  There’s an old adage that […]

There’s a thread on My Local Forums that links to an article that lists 100 ways to promote your personal brand for free.  (It says “personal brand”, but it applies just as well to businesses).  Subsequent posts on the thread noted that some of the items were quite tenuous and it seemed they had stretched […]

People don’t always bother to check their writing when they’re blogging or putting together a business communication. They just want to get that stream of consciousness from brain to fingertips as quickly as possible. Then it often gets published without so much as a spellcheck, let alone a proper read through. I am a bit […]

Who am I to tell you how to get more traffic, I can hear you asking. After all, this post is only the tenth post I’ve made on here. But I would answer you by saying that I have plenty of experience writing blog posts for other websites and for several of my clients.  So […]

I used to have a personal blog years ago.  It was more a diary of what was going on in my life than any particularly interesting Samuel Pepys-like insight into the world at the time. But friends and family read it, and I enjoyed doing it. It acted as a record of my life, and […]