Exercise more! Give up coffee! Save money! Start a business! See family more! Lose weight! Give up junk food! Get a promotion!
Did you pick any of those on New Year’s Eve to tackle for the year ahead?
It happens every year. People I know get ambitious with their resolutions and goals and can actually sometimes just set themselves up for failure. Read more
The old saying goes ‘two things in life are certain – Death and Taxes’. I’d like to formally request that this saying is altered to be ‘three things are certain in life – Death, Taxes and Deadlines’.
The consequences of missing these deadlines though can range from missing your bus to angry wife or even losing your job (or perhaps even scarier losing your job and making your wife angry).
So here are six tips to help you stay on top of your tasks and meet those deadlines every time, while hopefully avoiding those all-night work marathons we’ve no doubt found ourselves doing from time to time. Read more
Smart business resolutions for all SME’s.
There’s a New Zealand online business I came across the other day, which may as well have had a photo of me pinned to their mood board when they conceptualised it.
From the moment I spotted an ad for it on another blog, to the moment I followed them on their Facebook page. Read more
Smart business resolutions for all SME’s.
There’s a New Zealand online business I came across the other day, which may as well have had a photo of me pinned to their mood board when they conceptualised it.
From the moment I spotted an ad for it on another blog, to the moment I followed them on their Facebook page. Read more
The week before festive season break is generally one of complete madness.
Many people are at work trying to get an impossibly large task lists completed and signed off before suppliers, customers, co-workers and colleagues shut their doors for around two weeks.
Evenings and weekends can involve a flurry of sprinting through shopping centres and hopping from one festive event to the next. Read more
Don’t you love this time of year, it’s all about spend, spend, spend, shop, shop, shop and worry about it next year. I am sure it is not just us girls who feel like this.
The pressure to purchase goods for ourselves and others is huge at this time of year. All our children or grandchildren need the latest toys; men need the latest gadget, and every girl regardless of age need jewellery, that’s what the advertisers seem to tell us… Read more
It might be smooth sailing now, but sometimes, things fall apart. How will a roadblock in your personal life affect your business?
Remember the song, ‘Breaking up is hard to do’? Those who have been through relationship breakups I am sure will agree that it is not easy and there are lots of both emotional and financial issues processes to go through.
Generally, it is the emotional side that kicks in first, the hurt, anger, grief and so on, and if there are children involved then there is a whole other layer of emotional complexity. But at some point through this process the financial aspects of breaking up have to be dealt with, both in terms of the splitting of assets and debt, and the day to day financial management of who is going to pay the bills and how. Read more
It’s only a hop, skip and jump until Christmas day. End of year parties colour our calendars and employees around the country are booking their leave.
Many businesses either shut down or fall back to a skeleton crew over the holidays so it’s important to include your social media monitoring and engagement into this roster.
If your customers could have operational, service or purchasing issues over this time ensure whoever is on duty is trained up and familiar with your processes to address and answer tweets or Facebook questions. Read more
With Christmas only 30 sleeps away, many people are turning their attention to 2012 planning. While I’ll run through some tips and advice to help you manage your social media over the holiday period next week, today I want to get you thinking about 2012.
If a social strategy is not on your agenda right now it should be high on your to do list for the new year. Read more
If you’re anything like me, ‘editorial strategy’ invokes images of a news board room. Clark Kent and Lois Lane running around in those news hats with little bits of paper sticking out of them, trying to put the paper to bed for the night.
But believe it or not, an effective and well thought out editorial strategy will play a key element in the success of your blog.
At ProBlogger event, Darren brought out some heavy hitters to talk strategy with us. Sonia Simone, (who I raved about back here), Sally Bagshaw (owner of the brilliant copywriting business Snappy Sentences) and Lucy from The Design Files – all who know a thing or two about creating great content. (and have probably already found several grammatical errors in this post already!) Read more
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