My Final Post

Posted on 09. Apr, 2012 by .

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Yes, the day has come where I am hanging-up my keyboard on this blog for good. I’ve enjoyed writing my posts on here, and engaging with the readers, but demands on my time are getting greater and greater and a blog, by its very nature, takes time and effort to maintain. I have to compare [...]

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Low Cost Business Ideas

Posted on 04. Feb, 2012 by .

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Just recently, The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development published a report that predicted unemployment will continue to rise throughout 2012, and only begin to get better during 2013. As we all know, unemployment is bad news for the economy. People have less money to spend due to being out of work, which means companies [...]

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Red Tape – Another Reason Why this Recession Continues

Posted on 21. Jan, 2012 by .

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Being an entrepreneur, nothing frustrates me more than being told what I can and cannot do. I understand the necessity for rules and regulations. But I also understand the need for freedom, and the benefits that a ‘laissez faire’ approach can bring. Because I’m involved in quite a tightly regulated industry – health foods – I [...]

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Deal or No Deal

Posted on 15. Jan, 2012 by .

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No. This isn’t a post about the popular game show. Don’t worry. I’m talking about the times in business when you really have to step back from an opportunity and assess it in a completely rational, objective manner – and remove all emotion from your decision-making process. Sometimes, that’s hard to do. Over the past [...]

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Becoming an Interdependent Entrepreneur

Posted on 07. Jan, 2012 by .

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I’d guess most people aren’t familiar with interdependence (although excuse me if you are), so I’m going to summarise what this means before I begin this post. Basically, people are said to live in one of three states of dependency: -          Dependence -          Independence; and -          Interdependence Dependency is basically where you rely on others [...]

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My New Twitter Marketing Tool for 2012

Posted on 01. Jan, 2012 by .

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If you are a regular reader of my blog, you’ll know that I have quite a bit of experience with Twitter automation and marketing tools – I managed to build over 11,000 followers on one of my company profiles within a few weeks using TweetAdder. But now TweetAdder, my usual Twitter marketing tool, has become [...]

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My Goals for 2012

Posted on 29. Dec, 2011 by .

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Although I don’t believe in New Year resolutions (if you truly want to do something, you’ll do it from the moment you want to do it, not because it’s the start of a New Year), I do believe in setting goals. My goals for 2012 are divided amongst the businesses I’m involved in, alongside some [...]

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An Update On What I’ve Been Up To

Posted on 26. Nov, 2011 by .

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It’s been a while! Almost a month, in fact. But fear not – I’m back! And there has been good reason for my absence from blogging: 1. Our new Vitalife Tea range was launched the other week and we’ve been working tirelessly to get these into retailers and distributors across the UK, alongside getting the [...]

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What are ‘Backlinks’?

Posted on 30. Oct, 2011 by .

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Backlinks are basically links back to your website – from other external websites. They are one of the many contributing factors to your performance in search engine results. The more backlinks you have, the more credibility and value you have in the eyes of Google, and therefore the higher you rank in search results for [...]

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How to Grow a Freelance Business

Posted on 10. Oct, 2011 by .

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Whether you’re a writer, a designer, a programmer, a public speaker, or a photographer, you understand how difficult it is to run your business on a day-to-day basis and also dedicate some time to expanding and marketing in order to win further business and make more money. It’s easy for freelancers to fall into, what [...]

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