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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…
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Should You Start Your Own Home-Based Business?
Many people have job uncertainty at the moment and the option of working from home begins to look more attractive. You can’t fire yourself and the prospect of giving yourself a disciplinary warning seems unlikely! Joking aside, however, the decision to start your own business cannot be taken lightly. You would be well…
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Does the Google Panda Update Spell the End for Duplicate Content?
Remember the Google algorithm, now nicknamed ‘Panda’ which was rolled out in March to the USA and now last month to the rest of the world? The implementation of the algorithm has caused much interest in internet marketers and some consternation in the websites it has affected but now results are beginning to come in…
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Some Ideas for When Running a Small Business Gets Tough
I loved the Royal Wedding last Friday. The family sat down together to enjoy the day. The bride was beautiful, the dress was gorgeous, the groom was handsome in his uniform and the bridesmaids were cute. The bride and groom appeared to thoroughly enjoy their day and the beginning of their new life together. Most…
I love short stories: each one has its own character.
Sarah Charmley.
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August blog – where have you been since January?
Good question! Life got a little busy in the middle of February and did not calm down again until June. That is one reason for my neglect of this blog. By the time the dust settled, we had a holiday and then just all the stuff that goes on after a holiday. Suddenly it’s August.…
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2024 wrap up and 2025 goals
I have begun this new year by documenting the writing goals I have achieved. Looking back and comparing where you are at the end of this year can help you work out what you want to achieve the following year. Last year, I aimed to rewrite and publish a novella that I had worked on…
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Where to find story ideas
Have you ever read a story and thought that it was amazing and that you could never do that? Generating story ideas acts a little like a muscle – the more you use it, the easier it gets. Actively looking for story ideas can help you to generate more. You want to begin writing stories…
