Posts

awww, stop it, you'll make us blush

Me personally, businesswise, big fan of Branson, and after reading his book recently, was very impressed with Lord Sugar, and I have completely reformed my opinion of him.

But from a general inspiration, then it has to be someone like Jo Payne, fund raising manager for the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance, who lives and breathes it, is relentless, and the amounts she raises is staggering.

Pretty much anyone who dedicates their live to a worthy cause. It takes a special kind of person to do that, who isn't motivated by money or material things like the rest of us

Sounds like a good idea. May be there's mileage in teaming up with different business types, who have a similar customer lifecycle. If you're residential customers are a year a part, then maybe so are other trades? Decorating/painting, tree felling, gardening, mobile mechanics?

Could you do a joint marketing promotion, so you recommend different businesses, maybe from a flyer or business card, and they do likewise. Or after they have used you, they get a discount off their gardeneing, etc, and likewise the other trades offer a discount for your services?

Be like an independent co-operative?

I tend to go blundering in and learn from experience, maybe be not the best approach Am a big fan of hardcopy books, especially for filling in knowledge gaps.

In my techie days, I lived and breathed on test kit, trying different scenarios, and then reinforcing it with exams.

Don't really have that luxury when it comes to running a business, just get on with it

Day off, day off?? I dunno, hmm when is fathers day?

Moved your post into the SEO section.

Where would your links be placed? Are you offering home page links, or an old fashioned links page?

Assume you are after 1 way links not reciprocal?

Doing what I'm doing now, running a business

Why? Worn down by corporate land mentality...

At least you can do your own books

Interesting Rosemary.

Not convinced it will get costlier, but with the direction the search engines are going, a lot of the grey hat and shadier methods will be penalised, which will get rid of the low skilled SEO'rs.

SEO does get a bad reputation, so maybe a big shake up isn't such a bad thing. Professionals normally shine in any industry.

I'm guessing you're talking about mentoring. In a way it like some of the help on here and similar forums, eg I remember when you asked for some help on how to get into marketing, you got some good replies if I rem rightly, from at least MagnifyB.

So people are willing to help, but guess it's down to the amount required and exactly what it is you want.

If I was web designer and someone came to me asking me to teach them basic HTML, I'd prob point them in the direction of a nightschool or a decent manual.

If they came and had a particular issue or wanted some advice on how to do something more complex and were pushing themselves, and had obviously done all the foundation stuff, I'd probably be more willing.

Maybe it's just me?

Looks like the fans limit has been increased again, as this fan page now only displays on the original URL. New limit seems to be 25 fans!