Blog: Business help and advice for your business

I have seen so many posts lately about business overwhelm. Believe me, after almost 17 years working for myself I have been there many times. I thought it might be useful to share with you how I use technology to ...
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A #NoFilter approach to Instagram for businesses. It’s 2019 and people have jobs that revolve around posting on Instagram which, as a 20-something, broke student I am insanely envious of. But you don’t need to fill everyone’s feed with selfies ...
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What is it and how can you protect yourself? You may not even have heard of SIM Swap fraud. I hadn't realised how close to home this had got until I got a message from a very lovely friend. She ...
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Story telling has been around a very long time. It was a traditional way to convey information that needed to be passed down from generation to generation. Nothing has changed except the medium available to tell our stories. Story telling ...
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Please enjoy our Guest Blog this month from my friend, the lovely massage therapist, Anna. Smartphones have only been around for about 20 years and as they have become more functional we have started to use them more.  They are ...
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Following on from last month's blog post about Social Media here is my simple guide to the main choices to help you understand which may suit you and your business. Remember it's not about what works for your mate, your ...
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I often get asked "Which Social Media shall I use?" and "Do I need to be on ...?" and the answer I generally give is "It depends". You have probably heard your friends and associates spouting about how you must be ...
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With the looming of the new GDPR rules everyone is talking about what will happen. This article isn't about GDPR (that would be way too boring) but what we talk about here will impact the security side of the new ...
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Just about every day at present I see posts and articles explaining how important it is to reach as many people as possible on Facebook and how that is getting more difficult/impossible for small business owners. While Facebook can be ...
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I've been tasked with writing an article for Mama Life Magazine's next issue, about Cyberbullying. It's not a topic I am an expert in and I have trawled the internet and discovered some disconcerting facts. There are lots of articles ...
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You can have thousands of visitors to your website each and every day but if they aren't buying what's the point? It's important to be able to convert those visitors into buyers by providing them with a pleasurable experience and ...
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Our guest blog this week is from the lovely Jane Hawkes. Jane is the owner and founder of Seashore No. 4 Ltd, an online, e-commerce store selling beautiful nautical themed goods. A business set up for her son who has ...
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Which do you choose?  Confusion was the state I was in when it became necessary for me to at long last learn how to sort out my own website and marketing.  I had moved quite a distance from Hereford to ...
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I'm asked lots of questions about websites as well as other Digital platforms, one of which has been 'How many visitors do I need to my website?'. The answer although relatively simple isn't a straight forward number. It varies from ...
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For those of you who don't know, I went out for coffee one day and came home with a dog. He is a lovely black Labrador called Charlie. He was not quite 5 months old when I got him and the ...
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