This post includes my evolving process for creating a blog post. It continuing my theme of how to get out of the dilemma of being “too busy to stop being too busy”. The story so far is that the solution requires us to make use of ready-made systems and processes. I’m working on it! In …
If you’re building a website you must have a Privacy Policy. This post explains why you need one and the free and easy way to make one! Creating a Privacy Policy is one of those things that is so easy to ignore. It’s hidden away, most people don’t really care about it, and whose going …
To maximise the impact of a new blog post, you should announce it on your social media sites. Here’s a video showing how to do it automatically in the fastest and simplest way using the free service IFTTT. This just shows how to set up auto-posting to Twitter, but the process for most other social …
Am I behind the curve by focusing on Twitter? It seems to me that Twitter has gone somewhat out of fashion with online marketers recently. The focus has been more on Facebook (as always) along with Pinterest and Instagram and, in some cases, LinkedIn. Oh yes – and YouTube for fast ranking of content. But …
My Twitter Account: Automated, Engaging and Good Looking! Read More »
After several years of not doing any mentoring, I find myself starting TWO mentoring programs in one week. One of them takes the form of a monthly local Meetup here in Oxford. This is an offshoot of the Oxford Internet Professionals Meetup which I took over some years ago. The normal format for these is …
You need a Personal Vision and a Business Vision because hard work and dedication do not guarantee success. What are you working hard on? What are you dedicated to? To be successful, you need to be working hard on the right things, and you need to be very clear what it is you’re dedicated to. …
Business Vision & Personal Vision: Define Your Direction! Read More »
I think it’s time I provided an overview of what I want to achieve with my Your Digital Ally business. The main take-away here is the importance of having your own brand. In the first article in this series, I explained how I was setting up a business to create and sell training courses online …
[See business blog archives for other posts about my journey setting up this business.] One of the key steps I went through recently was to set up my Market Intelligence System (MIS) – and nowadays I recommend that this should be something everyone does at a very early stage of their business setup. In fact, as …
There’s so much I want to write about, I decided I needed to reduce the time I spend on content creation. Use of speech recognition is one part of achieving that. This post was going to be about a very different topic – but it morphed along the way! I’ll write a second post today …
It’s July 1st 2017, and I’m writing the first blog post on this site. This marks the first public act as a build a new business. And you can watch me do it! Some of you will know that this isn’t a new site. I’m relaunching it to support this new business, and I’ve removed …
