Monthly Archives: April 2008

Guest posting: What It’s *Really* Like

A common strategy used by bloggers looking to generate a bigger audience for their own blog is guest posting. Study the progression of bloggers like Leo and Skellie and you'll notice that one of the key strategies they used (at least in the beginning) to drive traffic to their own blogs ...

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LinkedIn Recommendations: What People Say And What They Really Mean!

Are you on LinkedIn? Do you have any recommendations in your profile from clients, colleagues or co-workers? I joined ages ago and had the common reaction: "Now what?" but I've recently been using LinkedIn rather a lot and have found it an excellent tool. So far... I've been interviewed as a blogging expert by Monique ...

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How To Outsource If You’re A Control Freak (Like Me)

My latest article on Freelance Switch - which talks about outsourcing for freelancers - was one I was hesitant to publish. Why? Because I suspected the somewhat volatile commenting community might just shoot it down in flames and hurl personal insults at me. But with the exception of just one commenter who noted... "The author ...

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Do You Have The Confidence To Live Your Own Life?

I look around me on my blogs, in my online networks, in my inbox and amongst my friends and family and notice that... People often don't live their own lives - they live the lives their parents mapped out for them, or the lives they think they *should* be living or the lives that their friends ...

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Are You Guilty Of Twitterbating? (And Therefore Missing The Real Benefit Of Twitter)

Over the past few months I've been experimenting with Twitter (interrupted by our stay in South Africa when bandwidth was limited - sorry but you're all going to have to hear me go on about it for ages now, especially as we'll be back there for 6 months soon!!). Twitter recently seems to have

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From Entrepreneur to Employee: Going Back

If you've seen some of my recent tweets or read the latest Business Success Secrets ezine, you'll know that we're going to be spending the rest of this year in one place (South Africa)... ...which is just a little bit daunting for someone who's not been in one place for more than 3 months at a ...

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A Quick Tour Around The New Blog

For those of you reading this through a feed reader, you might want to hop on over to the actual blog so you know what I'm wittering about! As you may know by now, I've spent the past few days migrating this blog from Typepad to Wordpress. The first time I did ...

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Blog Housekeeping Apologies

Sorry to any of you who have tried to access the blog in the past couple of days...there was a slight glitch transferring the blog from Typepad to Wordpress which frustratingly took a tad longer than I thought - and I had issues trying to sort out the domain transfer. However, I hope you like the ...

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What Does Honesty And Integrity Mean In Your Business?

One of the benefits that running your own business brings is the fact that you get to make all the decisions about everything, mostly. Which means you get to decide the what, when, how and who of all your important communication with customers, clients, prospects, employees, suppliers, contractors and anyone who has anything to do with ...

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