A challenge should be inspiring and a challenge related to my blog is certainly that. Nicky Kriel has a lot to answer for. I while ago I challenged her to write a blog post – the result is all about New Ideas Being Rejected. Nicky has returned the favour(!) and challenged me to take part [...]
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What’s the best way to communicate with your customers? Well you could go and see them all, or you call them or you could write to them or you could email them – and then you could do a combination of all of these. Of course, you could be organised and think about your communications [...]
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BBC Radio 4 have launched the Women in Business 2011 series. If you have 40 minutes to spare, then it’s worth a listen It’s about 3 women in business and 3 mentors who will help them over the next year. The business that people set up amaze me. I find it fascinating: what can be [...]
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Online marketing and web technology were in my thoughts today at Horsham Women in Business, my first networking event of 2011. One of the conversations made me start thinking about online marketing (it’s never far from my mind obviously) and how in my opinion too many people jump straight to the web being a solution [...]
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Paragraphs – what they’re for and how to do them! These are very useful things but often neglected. The word ‘paragraph’ comes from the Greek ‘paragraphos’ meaning ‘to write beside’ or ‘written beside,’ so Wikipedia informs me. What does that mean for us writers? Whether you are writing an article, an essay or a story, [...]
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Memory – and how to help it! It happens to us all. Sometimes our memory lets us down and we just can’t remember. This is tricky if it’s a spelling you need – maybe a word you often spell incorrectly. Yes, I know you can just look it up on your computer, or find it [...]
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Punctuation – Colon and Semicolon : ; This is an area many people have difficulty with but it’s often easier than you might think. If you get your punctuation right, it will make your written work look and sound so much better. Not only that, but it can also make the difference between a piece [...]
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Acronyms! A bit like Marmite, you either love them or hate them… They are, of course, usually the initial letters from a group of words used to abbreviate an otherwise longer series of words, for instance, TOIL (time off in lieu), PAYE (pay as you earn) and there are just so many more. Acronyms have [...]
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Remember Your Netiquette Even though our lives seem to be increasingly busy, a lack of time should not result in a lack of manners. I mean, of course, on the internet. Time for a reminder of those little courtesies that make all the difference! When we use email to communicate, we are heavily reliant on [...]
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Editing and Checking your Writing You know what it’s like – you’ve worked hard on an article or blog post for your business and you’re feeling rather proud of it…until someone reports back that one line doesn’t make sense, the piece has several spelling errors, you’ve repeated the same word three times and mixed your [...]
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