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Experiencing the London 2012 Olympics
If you have just come out from under a rock, or been hibernating in a cave then you might not be aware that the UK is hosting the Olympics this year. I think most people might know. I don’t live anywhere near London, but even my family has taken a trip, paying extortionate money to…
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Back to the Basics of Your Business
I’ve been doing some decorating recently. Our living room or lounge needed a complete rethink and redecoration. The ceiling had some water damage from a previous leak but because asbestos had been discovered in a another room it was not considered the right thing to do to strip it out. We hired a plasterer to…
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How to Save Your Website
Have you ever done this? Found a bright shiny website with whistles and bells, looking pretty and inviting. So you decide to stay and look round. Then you discover that although it looks like it will be informative, the website content lacks something…you cast around for the word…what is it again? Oh yes, I know.…
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Improve Your Website: Update the Content
If one of your resolutions in 2012 is to raise the profile of your website, then have you considered updating or increasing the content to be found on your site? Providing useful and informative articles are a good way to keep visitors clicking around your website and encouraging them to spend money with you. It…
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My Business Goals for 2012
What is it about the New Year that makes it such a new start? September can seem to take on this role because of the children changing classes but it seems that January 1st is much more motivating every year. It’s time to evaluate what you have been doing with your business in the previous…
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How to Keep Your Business from Failing
It’s a scary thought – you came into business, excited at a new idea, buzzing with the possibilities that lay ahead and laughing in the face of failure. Six, twelve or eighteen months on, the realities have hit: you have experienced the ups and downs of running a business: you have got to grips with…
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Does the End of the News of the World Justify the Means?
Here in the UK, there is a huge storm building over allegations that a Sunday newspaper, The News of the World, employed very underhand tactics to build their news stories including hacking into the phone of a teenager later found murdered and into celebrity phones illegally. Many of the public and politicians are up in…
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What to Do with Your Business When Life Gets in the Way
It’s been a while since I posted. We’ve had Easter Holidays and a Royal Wedding in the UK. Then our family had a French student for a week, a week in Guernsey then two weeks of working frantically to catch a deadline or two. It’s been a busy time and this blog has suffered as…
