The Small Business Blogging Experts

We are often asked how people can improve their websites to boost interest in their business, their products and services and how they might best reach their target audience ...

It's Sunday morning as I sit down to write this blog post and for once, it's a bright and sunny day with promises of warm weather. It feels like months since we've had any sunshine ...

Have you been watching the BBC3 Hairdressing competition? Wondered how these amateurs get a taste for hairdressing? At Aston Training we start training hairdressers from year 10 ...

An interesting headline caught my eye last week as I was reading my copy of The Daily Mail. It said ''Teacher wins £230,000 payout after slipping on a sachet of ketchup'' ...

Have you ever had a blog post go viral? It means your words have resonated with enough readers to get big shares on social media. We had one go viral a couple of weeks ago, on LinkedIn ...

I've been asked to do some talks over the next couple of weeks and I thought I'd create a blog post as a foundation for those sessions. Blogging for your business is incredibly important ...

Most businesses develop a strategy at the beginning of the year. As the year progresses, owners and managers face that gut-wrenching decision to make a major shift in their strategy ...

I have been blogging for my business now for 2 years! It is the part of my marketing activities that I love the most.It allows me to express my opinions with anyone who is interested ...

I awoke to glorious sunshine streaming through the curtains and lighting up my bedroom. Later on, I threw open the french windows and took a deep breath of the crisp morning air ...

I've been asked to write a report on business branding called either '7 myths of creating a Powerful Brand', or '7 Secrets of Building a Powerful Brand'. This made me stop and think ...

Translation takes time and the process requires good planning to produce quality text. There are situations where projects are urgent and extending deadlines would cause a lot of trouble ...

Google and other search engines such as Yahoo and Bing track and record your activity, detailing all sorts of data such as your IP address and metadata relating to your searches ...

It's great to be able to do something different on a Thursday afternoon and I found myself at Business Expo 3.0 2014! I was very much looking forward to seeing my business friends ...

Get ready! You're not going to sleep through the night for the next five years. You will constantly have food on your clothes and dark circles under your eyes ...

I have recently met with two business bank managers and both have told me that it is not unusual for small business owners to say ''I want to expand my business. How much can I borrow?''

So, last week we looked at how you can decide whether executive coaching is for you. This week, I'm going to reverse the question and, in doing so, share a secret with you ...

All businesses are dedicated to saving money wherever possible. The economic downturn has brought with it a new focus on cost saving. Here are a few ideas which you can implement ...

Working for a call handling company is like entering a whole new world. It's worse than being Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz; it's more like being Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole ...

Yesterday, I was feeling quite grumpy. Workmen came to remove an Ash Tree from behind my house. It wasn't that they were removing the tree, it was the damage they were causing around it ...

Coaching empathy, understanding and communication is an effective way to break down the myths of salesmanship. The average sales person has 900 hours of selling time per year ...

I meet a lot of people who have gone into business for themselves with a passion to make a difference. They are like preachers and talk eloquently about how they can make life better ...

You've heard of the old adage of 'keep it simple, stupid'? My take on the KISS principle is 'Keep it Simple, SMART'. I've at least two examples of why we should make business simpler ...

Emergency lighting is used for any situation when the mains power supply is cut and any normal illumination fails. The loss of mains electricity could be the result of a fire or power c ...

When I first came across Buffer, I thought it was just another sharing tool. After all, I've got Twitter boxes everywhere, so why would I be interested in another sharing app?