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Measuring web influence?

Image via Wikipedia When some people talk about their personal relationships, we want to cry out “Too much information” but when on-line that’s what we get. It is so difficult to filter out the noise. We are constantly being urged … Continue reading

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How can we hang on to a dream?

To have dreams in the sense of hopes and plans is something we all have and especially in business. We have objectives and targets and aspirations as to where we want to be in a year’s time, or five years or ten years. Continue reading

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Don’t make promises that you can’t keep

We must be careful not to over-promise. We all want to do our best but sometimes time scales cannot be met. Continue reading

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Professional arrogance

Having recently been on the wrong end of a less-than-helpful experience dealing with a professional in another field, it made me think about the traps we can all fall into when dealing with our clients and customers. Keeping our eyes … Continue reading

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Thank you for the music!

I have had a very enjoyable year writing this blog and my other ones. If the truth be known, I mainly write these days because I enjoy it and because I hope the odd nugget might be useful. I suppose … Continue reading

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Desperate networking

I wonder whether some of them are driven by desperation that their networking has never worked even when they started and took it more slowly.

We know that if our marketing isn’t working we have to change it. Networking is a sort of marketing in which we give without expectation of getting business from anyone in particular but in the knowledge that those we know may think of us when it counts and they think they know someone who needs us. Continue reading

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Choices

Our first businesses are generally based on our familiar environments. We tend to work in familiar areas. That is understandable, but we can corral ourselves into a particular mindset in which we can believe that we are only good at … Continue reading

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Don’t repeat costly business mistakes

Mistakes. We all make them. In the early years of a business, inexperience may lead us to make quite a few. Don’t worry about that. It is important to learn from mistakes and move on. Continue reading

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Riding the wave

So if we move with the times, let’s enjoy ourselves. If you are reading this you probably know that I have quite a significant on-line presence. I cannot claim to be one of the big hitters like Chris Brogan or … Continue reading

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