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I was asked to give a short talk on blogging on Tuesday evening at the WordPress Glasgow meetup. Amongst the things I talked about was tools and plugins that I find useful for blogging. One tool I’ve been using since May this year is Missinglettr for blog promotion. What does Missinglettr do? The name doesn’t […]
I attended a major conference last week, the RI World Congress. The conference is held every 4 years and covers a range of disability issues. This year I was lucky enough that it was held in my home city of Edinburgh. As someone interested in accessible and inclusive design, particularly for the Web, I was […]
What’s happened to Twitter’s Share Counts? Tweet 0 I discovered the other day through using Coschedule’s social sharing tools that I could no longer see the share count for my posts shared on Twitter. Personally, I don’t display share counts on my actual posts because I don’t tend to get large numbers of shares. But this still […]
The Content Marketing Academy 2015 – so what was that? I attended one of the best conferences I’ve been to lately, The Content Marketing Academy 2015. The conference took place over 2 days on 3 and 4 September. We were promised that we’d learn things that would take our business one year ahead of the competition – […]
As I just passed my second year anniversary in business (you can read my thoughts on year one here) I thought it would be a good time to take stock of where I’d got to again. FreshBooks kindly provided me with this infographic for navigating the freelance galaxy. Take a look, and read my thoughts […]
I recently posted a business blogging survey to find out more about why people blog for business, how often they blog and how effective they’ve found blogging. I used this to help compose my recent talk and post about blogging. Here I present the results up to 4 August 2015. I should point out that the […]
I very much enjoyed visiting the Social Media and Marketing Show on Wednesday, run by Exposure Events at Ingliston. It was a fantastic day out with networking opportunities, exhibitors, excellent speakers and the chance to meet with old and new faces. Here are my top 12 takeaways from the event: 1. You CAN start a business in […]
Revised and updated 9 March 2016. Having done a blogging challenge earlier in the year, and now settling into a one post per week routine, I decided recently that I could use an editorial calendar. The benefits of an editorial calendar Editorial calendars are used by bloggers and content marketers for a number of reasons: Plan in […]
This is Day 22 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 21’s post here. Yesterday I attended a Business Gateway workshop on improving your selling skills. The workshop was delivered by Alisoun Mackenzie who is a business adviser and “heart-centred” entrepreneur. Selling is something I find does not come naturally, but the workshop […]
This post is part 2 of my summary of Brad Sugars’ business seminar on 20 October 2014. Read part 1. Referrals Every business needs a referral system (or multiple systems). His dog food company gave away dog bowls or personalised dog coats to customers who referred new customers. There was an ongoing offer to give away 1 […]
