by lesley | May 23, 2022 | Press & Media
Press releases are so ‘yesterday’! And not very productive either. Whatever you think your story is, it’s often difficult to convince an editor that it has ‘legs’. However, there are better opportunities to get PR coverage in the print (and digital print) media....
by lesley | May 16, 2022 | Newsletters
Do you like newsletters? Do you read the ones that arrive in your email inbox? We send out a newsletter twice a month, but it’s not really ‘news’, in the sense that it’s not about what’s going on in our business. Nobody cares about what we’re doing, only in getting...
by lesley | May 9, 2022 | Social media
As a business owner it’s tempting to see social media as an excellent way to promote your products or service, but there’s more to it than that. If you operate on a broadcast-only strategy people will rapidly get bored and stop reading your posts. There are a few...
by lesley | May 2, 2022 | Marketing, Reputation
Everything you say and do influences what other people think about you – and what they say to others about you. Does that mean that you should censor everything and go around in a permanent state of worry in case you say something people don’t like? Definitely...
by lesley | Apr 25, 2022 | Blogging
There’s a saying that suggests if you want the most efficient way to do something ask a lazy person – they’ll find the shortcuts and remove time-consuming activities along the way. This is my lazy blogger’s guide. Firstly, are you a talker or a writer? If...