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Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday & Cyber Monday

Dated: 21 November 2022

If you only pay attention to one week in the social media calendar… This should be it! I think it’s fair to say we have a lot of our own holidays and special celebrations so a lot of us in the UK don’t really pay attention to American holidays. We’re more aware of them because […]

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Writing Great About and Services pages for your website

Dated: 6 June 2022

When you’re putting together your first website, writing your About page and Services page(s) can be daunting. All that blank space! So here are some tips to get you started. Make some notes Firstly, plan what you’re going to say in short bullet points. Start with your About page. Are you going to call it […]

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The best marketing advice I ever received…

Dated: 11 October 2011

…Never sell on price! In the midst of the Supermarket Price Wars, and reading about Sainsbury’s joining the fray, I am reminded of Selling to Win by Richard Denny, sales trainer. His basic rule was “don’t sell on price!” When you sell on price, you devalue yourself and your product. When you sell only on […]

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Which type of networker are you?

Dated: 6 September 2011

When I was first introduced to business networking, like most people I didn’t know what on earth the rules of the game were. I noticed a lot of people had their own style of introducing themselves to people and over the years it’s become pretty clear that everyone has a slightly different approach to what […]

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