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New Business Expectations vs Reality
What can a new business owner expect? How did you expect things to be when you started your new business? Did you expect it to be effortless, fun, empowering? Was failure part of the plan? What about clients who don’t want to pay? Every person who starts a new business, has an idea in their…
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Freelance Interview – Meet Kevin Carlton of WebsiteCopywritingServices.com
Name: Kevin Carlton Website: websitecopywritingservices.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/Write_Online Google+: http://plus.google.com/+KevinCarlton LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevincarlton Bio: Kevin is a freelance copywriter and blogger with a methodical and no-nonsense approach to writing copy. He is owner of UK-based SEO copywriting service Write Online, which helps businesses large and small get the most out of their online presence. He also provides…
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Why Have a Guest Blog?
Guest blog posts are becoming more popular as the demand for website content grows. Introducing a blog to your website can help increase your traffic and bring more customers to your business, but maintaining a blog can be hard work. It can be difficult to constantly think of fresh ideas and easy to put off…
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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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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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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…
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The Simple Guide to SEO Terms
Here are some of the terms regularly used in SEO jargon and the simple explanations for them. Affiliate Marketing – running ads on your website for a company which will pay you per impression or click or lead. There are umbrella companies set up that will enable you to apply to suitable affiliates for your…
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Starting out as a Copywriter
It seems such an easy job that the world and his wife could do it with one hand tied behind their back (not their writing hand, obviously) – copywriting! How can you become a copywriter? If you have always wanted to have a go, then here are some of the steps that have got me…