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8 of my top articles, all in one place…
One of the things its easy to forget when you’ve been blogging for a long time is all the great posts and content you’ve put together over the years. All that effort you put in, potentially lost in the mists of time. Unless a user finds your posts by a search engine, its unlikely they’ll [...]
8 Simple Steps to Email Marketing Loveliness
Some of you might be wondering why I’m writing about email marketing today – it’s old hat isn’t it? With all this new social media buzz, there is surely no place in the world for email marketing is there? Well I believe there is and I intend to tell you why and how you can [...]
How to Rock a Tradeshow
For those of you who follow me on Twitter you’ll know that this week I attended The East London Expo in Dagenham. It was a great event but it highlighted a few things for me which I felt were worth blogging about this week. Hopefully if you find yourself getting ready for an exhibition, you [...]
Who are your influencers?
In my last blog post I talked about the influence project. This week I want to focus on finding your influencers. How do you spread the message about your business? Do you try and do it yourself? Do you employ sales people to go out and do it on your behalf? These are valid tactics [...]
If I were a solicitor…
A week or two ago I tweeted the following, “If you were a solicitor, what would you use Twitter for”. I did this because I was visiting a solicitors that day and wanted to show both the power of crowd sourcing but also what other people’s ideas were. I was pretty overwhelmed by the response [...]
How to change a habit…The #21days Challenge
It’s that old saying that comes to mind…if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got… yet we find it so difficult to break the habits we’ve become accustomed to and still we believe that tomorrow might just hold something different – why is this? Are we all stark [...]
My philosophy of how I treat my clients
We’re all in business because of our clients – if it wasn’t for them we’d have no orders and therefore no business. Client interaction has always fascinated me, its something I’ve studied since I started my web design & online marketing business over 10 years ago. Originally there were three directors at Optix. We formed [...]
What’s your social footprint like?
I consult a lot of small to medium sized businesses on ‘Social Media/Communications’. I’m not a self professed ‘social media guru’, it’s certainly not everything I do, but it does form a lot of the marketing/customer service/networking activity that I carry out for my own businesses. This post is about something I call ‘your social [...]
The Rule of the First and the Last
What do you do when you turn up to a networking event or a meeting? Do you turn up after everyone else? Do you leave before other people have? Well here’s a quick tip for you this week – thousands and thousands of pounds have been won through the rule of the first and the [...]
5 traits successful business people have – do you have these?
Missed a week due to travel folks so firstly apologies for that – clearly my first trait should be the inability to keep an appointment with ones blog OK so there are probably hundreds of things you need to be successful in business but I’ve been day dreaming this last week and working out my [...]