Should I Let My Inner Child Run Riot?

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Almost a year-and-a-half ago I took a decision that was to have far-reaching consequences on every area of my life. It’s the main reason you won’t have been reading much of my writing lately. Quite Out of Character For Me… After twenty years of freelance consulting I arbitrarily, and quite uncharacteristically decided to accept an [...]

7 Strategies for a Must-Read Blog

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Bloggers-Make Every Post Count If you blog, it’s important to write firstly because you just want to. You have something inside you that needs to be said. But in order to have a successful blog there are some parameters that need to be met. Only blog when you ‘ve got something to say (that means [...]

Can Your Customers Trust Your Brand?

OK don’t answer that. I want you to think about it. What made me want to ask such a question? The following headline. Edelman survey: Trust in all media plunges! You can read more here. Quite simply it makes me so sad: sick to my stomach in fact.The results of this survey indicate that the [...]

Five WordPress Plugins You Must Have

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Choosing the Right WordPress Plugins It can be difficult to decide just which WordPress plugins you should install. We’re spoiled for choice and that’s for sure. If you’re just starting up with your WordPress blog I suggest you don’t go installing plugins right and left, since you can slow your site and there’s no sense [...]

7 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Me…

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I got tagged for this back on January 25th by Neal Jansen over at The Puck Writes but I only just saw it: Sorry Neal! The Rules for This Particular Meme * Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post. (see above) * Share seven facts about yourself in the post. [...]

Spam by any other name….

Is a spammer stealing your traffic?

Is a spammer stealing your traffic? For those of you who hate it when I’m in a bad mood, RANT ALERT! I woke up this morning to find this on my blog: Hi, let me first tell you this not spam.i am a real person sitting at a real desk.I am Rajeev Mahadevan from India.I [...]

Guest Posting for Links: Singing for Your Supper

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My Big Announcement It won’t be news to you that one of the best way to get quality backlinks is guest posting for a website with complimentary content to what’s on your website. In reality of course, if you pick your guest posting venues carefully you get a whole lot more out of the deal [...]

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