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Building your Brand Online

March 21, 2012 By 7 Comments

  I am at the beginning of a hopefully long journey to build a brand online and I invite you to join me as I take steps along the road.You will be able to witness my triumphs and disasters alike as the project comes to life . This is a real life launch , not a text [...]

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From Gist CRM to ProfileTrader

March 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Over the years you collect names and email addresses from around the globe . Contacts on Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn and of course your email systems .On a daily basis you interact with some of them , leaving most just as names . What happens next ? Can they be organised ? Here is [...]

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Experting the Truth

February 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Networking has always been something which is disregarded by some, jumped on by many and often misunderstood. Just in life you spend your time building your network, making friends having some conversations and developing ideas. Some come and go, some slow burn and some stick – it’s the luck of the draw I guess. What [...]

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The long and winding road

November 28, 2011 By 6 Comments

I teach most evenings which means a lot of travelling in the dark, especially now in winter. I can’t say I like driving in the dark and at the moment I have to drive almost 1hr to get to one of the teaching jobs. It’s a horrible road, overtaking slow vehicles is almost impossible and [...]

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Hear me , Xeeme and Connect.Me

November 25, 2011 By 2 Comments

Your inner circle of online contacts know who you are and what you do and they know how to contact you. People outside this inner circle can only guess. How could they help you and how could you help them ? Tagging or being tagged is predicted (by me) to be the growth area in [...]

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Blog post editors – what do you use ?

November 11, 2011 By 2 Comments

What do you use when you are preparing your blog posts ? Up until now I have used my favourite text editor EditPad Pro, it made sense as I also use it as a code editor when programming . Then one November night one of my good friends mislaid a blog post she had written [...]

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Are you Another Me Too Blog?

November 8, 2011 By 4 Comments

Are you Another Me Too Blog?Yeah, me too. You should be working out how to stand out with your blog when there’s so much competition and noise but instead you are copying what other bloggers are doing. Being another “Me too” blog means your blog will never grow beyond a tiny acorn. So how do [...]

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Want to blog better? Listen, Then Write

November 8, 2011 By 25 Comments

Whether you’ve been blogging for a short time or forever, you’re going to have days when you can’t think of what to write or how to speak to your audience. Your blog seems stale to you and you wonder if it seems the same way to your readers. You feel lackluster and directionless and muse [...]

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Making contact , engaging the audience you desire on Twitter

November 1, 2011 By 2 Comments

As twitter has developed , so has the method to use the medium to market effectively . The perceived wisdom is that if you have a product or service to market using twitter , you should have a large following and play the ‘chase the Retweet game’ The idea is simple , you tweet your [...]

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If the love of your life were a blog …..

October 30, 2011 By 17 Comments

…. You would be listening to these songs: * Saving all my blogs for you (Whitney Houston) * Crazy little thing called blog (Queen) * Blogging Man (Elton John) * Goodbye Yellow Brick Blog (Elton John) * I’m still blogging (Elton John) * Addicted to blogs (Robert Palmer) * A groovy kind of blog (Phil [...]

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