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7 Elements of Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing is a lovely concept. When I decided to make a living from doing Digital Marketing, I thought “Great – having run all aspects of a business for 15 years, I can finally focus in on one thing”. Still so naïve after all these years!! Like most things in life, once you start digging, […]

The Wake

I sing in a traditional Male Voice Choir. Not quite normal, I know, but we’re pretty good, and they’re a great bunch of blokes. http://Hampshire Police Male Voice Choir (HPMVC) The sad side is that we have a fair number of elderly members, and so funerals and wakes come along a little too often. Anyway, […]

Validation

“Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.”- OLIVER CROMWELL We all look for validation. Starting a new venture is high-validation-seeking time, where every nuance of how people react to what you tell them is noted and analysed, preying on every […]

Weekly thoughts

Last week was a good week. One of my rules for this business is that I’m going to be very selective about who I do work for. Whether or not I continue to do payment by results in the long term, I want to make sure that every client that I take on is a […]

First workshop done

First workshop successfully completed today. It was slightly stressful. I arrived on time, but got the wrong street and had to phone to work out where they were. My tech then didn’t work! I’ve got a laptop bag full of connectors to link my Surface to any type of display. Of course, I’ve changed my […]

Well, that’s awkward

There are good problems and bad problems, Too many customers that you’re struggling to serve is a good problem. Poor quality delivery is a bad problem. I got a client last week!!! I was hoping to spend another few weeks getting my company registered, sorting out a bank account, doing social media, writing some processes, […]

Creating this blog site

Geeky blog alert! Part of my plan is to blog about the detail of setting up the basics for a business – this blog walks through how I set up this blog site on GoDaddy. When I choose system to use, sometimes I’ll be doing some research about which the best system is, and sometimes […]

The Plan – bonus post

One of the goals of my blog is not to bore people away, so I’ve split the detail of my aims into a separate post for the hardcore readers….. To be earning a wage* by next summer. *I’m planning to publish detailed finances at some point, but will be asking people to sign up to […]