What Makes a Good Business Leader?

September 3, 2010
Roland Millward

I thought that in this article I would ask you as one of my readers to express your thoughts and observations on this question rather than me write down my own. Successful businesses need good leaders and there are many names that probably will spring to your mind of those who have led businesses to [...]

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The August Competition Winners

September 2, 2010

Congratulations go to our winners in the August Competition and Members August Draw. The First Prize winner who got all 3 answers correct was: Michelle Etheridge who wins one year of Solar Powered Web Hosting from Lightbeing Creations. Second prize of £20 of call credit to Jam Answering Services goes to Shane Hudson. The correct [...]

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Spotlight On: Jasper Williams – Graphic Designer

September 1, 2010
Jasper Williams The Juice Factory

What ever type of business you’re running, you’ll need to market it effectively. Your brand or company name is your promise to consumers and the way you communicate your services as well as your beliefs and values will have a direct impact on the businesses success. Design is very subjective with everyone having an opinion, [...]

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Which Business Books Do You Recommend?

August 31, 2010

Never stop learning! That’s my motto in life. There is so much that we can learn from others and in business it is vital that we stay ahead of the competition. We may have been in business for many years and the wise ones will look back and see that they have had to make [...]

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That Friday Feeling!

August 27, 2010

Do you ever get that Friday feeling? It’s the end of the week and you feel tired. The last working day begins to drag and you lack the enthusiasm to do business. SNAP out of it! Come on guys if you want to be successful you need to keep going! It is now time to [...]

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How to Write a Successful Blog Post

August 26, 2010
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How can you write a successful blog post? Writing does not come naturally for many people but with practice skills can be developed. Most readers of blogs are not reading them with a literary eye. They are looking for information and interesting insights. Your writing style does not have to match that of top writers [...]

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Twitter: How to Unfollow Inactive Users

August 25, 2010
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You will probably notice that many of the people that you follow on Twitter have become inactive. Sadly some people die but the vast majority of people that stop tweeting simply have become bored or failed to understand Twitter and ceased to use it. How can you find out who in your Twitter Following list [...]

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Holding Effective Meetings

August 24, 2010
Effective Business Meeting

Meetings are a great way to bring people together in business to help the business move forward. Sadly though it can quite often be the case that corporate meetings are held by managers who have little else to do and like meetings to make themselves feel important or to justify their existence. For the purpose [...]

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Are Face to Face Meetings – better than online?

August 23, 2010
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As someone that spends a great deal of time online and promotes networking and building businesses through online relationships it may seem strange that I am writing about face to face meetings. Whilst a great deal can be achieved online using social media like Facebook and Twitter, plus Skype, messaging services and even that thing [...]

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Pay per Click Advertising

August 20, 2010

Are you looking for extra targeted traffic to your website? Have you tried pay per click? There are a number of pay per click scheme with Google being the largest supplier of pay per click advertising. As the name suggests you only pay for adverts where a potential customers clicks on the link to your [...]

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