by lesley | Jan 19, 2025 | Social media
Social media is powerful – even people who ‘hate’ social media, can’t avoid the fact that it has an impact on their business and on them personally. The secret of successful social media is to know: Who your audience are Where they’re active What they engage with best...
by lesley | Jan 9, 2025 | Reputation
With a lovely new shiny year to explore, most people see the months ahead as uncharted territory. Most of us measure the year by the calendar – you hear phrases like “I hope this year is going to be better than the last one,” or “Last year was amazing – now we just...
by lesley | Dec 29, 2024 | Blogging
That sounds soooooo boring – but that’s where the term ‘blog’ came from. It was originally a sort of online diary – think ‘Captain’s log web date …’ from Star Trek. These days a blog article is so much more than a diary post, but if you remember the origin of the...
by lesley | Dec 19, 2024 | Authorship, Writing a book
If you’ve never written a book before, it can seem like a mammoth task, but, if you get the right structure in place, writing is made much easier. There are three elements that create your building blocks in a non-fiction book: 1: The chapters and how they flow. 2:...
by lesley | Dec 9, 2024 | Websites
Isn’t that obvious? It’s to present your business to the digital viewer, of course. People talk about ‘brochure’ sites, in other words, websites that display your wares. But a good website is much more than that. It needs to Engage potential clients quickly Have...
by lesley | Nov 29, 2024 | Pitches & Presentations
You may have heard of ‘death by PowerPoint’, but how do you avoid becoming a perpetrator of this? Just in case this is a term you haven’t come across before, I can almost guarantee that you’ve been on the receiving end! Essentially, it was coined to describe a...
by lesley | Nov 19, 2024 | Business
I think the word ‘Business’ evolved from ‘busy-ness’! Lots of businesses are created because someone has a passion for something – and then they discover that their business needs more than their passion. When your passion is your core offering, the other ‘stuff’...
by lesley | Nov 9, 2024 | Press & Media
Everyone loves a good story, but when you’re running a business finding good stories can be challenging. There was a time when a regular press release would go out to the company’s press list, but how many of these got published? The answer is ‘very few’. But why? ...
by lesley | Oct 29, 2024 | Marketing
Testimonials are powerful and most of your customers and clients would be happy to provide one – but they need to be asked or it just doesn’t cross their minds. Testimonials are third party validation. They’re great marketing tools – providing they have the right...
by lesley | Oct 19, 2024 | Newsletters
When you pick up a newspaper or magazine (or visit that publication online), you choose which articles you want to read by the headlines. Some of the more nefarious publications use misleading headlines just to try and get your eyes on their article. You’ve probably...
