Is crowd-funding your way forward?

Is crowd-funding your way forward?

Crowd-funding is on trend – everyone is using it from start-ups to Olympic sports teams.  Is it something you could use to help your business move to the next level? Anyone can launch a crowd-funding campaign – and there’s a blog here about creating a good pitch – but...
Is crowd-funding your way forward?

How to build a press list

If you haven’t done this already, you may be missing an opportunity. Most PR agencies will recommend that you send information – press releases – to relevant publications to get new coverage, but if you don’t have a PR agency or the budget to engage one – how do you...
Is crowd-funding your way forward?

What makes a good marketing flyer?

  Everything is digital these days – but then you have to go to a live event and have nothing except your business cards to promote your business. It’s time to create a flyer. Before you call up your designer or open Photoshop, think about what you want to...
Is crowd-funding your way forward?

LinkedIn – personal or company?

Many of my clients ask me whether they should be posting on LinkedIn as themselves or their company.  The answer is both, BUT – unlike Facebook, where Pages get a lot of traffic, company pages on LinkedIn are less visible. The pages that do get traffic tend to be the...
Is crowd-funding your way forward?

5 ways to STOP your website working

I write lots of web content and work with clients and web designers on making websites user-friendly. That may seem obvious, but sadly the surveys reveal that, offered the option of a glitzy, pretty website and one that has fantastic usability for the website visitor,...