The Enterprise Bill says it is going to help small businesses deal with late payments. The question is: do you use this scheme and most...

Social Media can be one of your biggest assets in business. If you are already using it, great! But how do you know if you’re unlocking...

Very pleased to announce that I am a finalist at the CIM Marketing Excellence Awards, in the category 'Marketer of the Year'! I entered...

Time is the biggest resource many small business owners have and it's tempting to simply work late whenever possible, but there needs to...

A friend of mine is a scientist.  He is researching how to cure cancer.  As you'd imagine it is very hard.   Last week he...

A friend of mine is a scientist.  He is researching how to cure cancer.  As you'd imagine it is very hard.   Last week he...

Instead of just knowing how many people come to your website, wouldn't it be great for your business if you knew WHO came, what products...

Following on from my previous Passle, crap content is bad enough but deliberately misleading people by not making things clear is out of...

It's so true and there are too many people spending time pushing more content out to more people in the hope that it triggers interest...

Direct Mail is alive and thriving, particularly in the B2B space, as people get inundated with email and rarely get letters anymore.

This morning the social media giant, Twitter, was down for almost 2 hours in the United Kingdom, some parts of Europe and even Japan....

2016 will be the year that Social media gets even bigger! Here are some of the things you can look out for in 2016!

1 - Real Time Updates

You started your business because you love doing what you do.

Unfortunately there is a lot of other stuff that needs to be done around...

As a small business owner there will be times when you get discouraged. It's not because you're doing something wrong (most of the time)...

Jon Baker suggests that many testimonials aren't worth the screenspace they're "printed" on and I have to agree with him, at least...

Bounce rates are often considered to be scary, but they are very informative.

1. A page with a high bounce rate has either poor content or...

I’ve written before about 7 things to do after you’ve hit ‘publish’, so here is a quick companion piece.

1. Does your post have actual content?

Despite all the media coverage on this being a bad idea, why do so many people still look to sell to their network?

The chances are that a...

We all love stories and we have done since we were knee high to a very short thing.  What's not to love? Good guys to bond with and...

I'm being a little outlandish here, but for small businesses this is still the biggest source of new business, of new suppliers and,...

If you're marketing your business, I bet you've got Google Analytics on your website and you're using something like MailChimp to...

As a small business owner, you'll be used to networking, but I bet the first paragraph below describes your normal approach.

I couldn't...

I don't think this is a surprise to anyone in the small business world, with the probable exception of the people within the banks.

There...

All versions of Internet Explorer older than IE 11 will cease to be supported by Microsoft on the 12th January 2016. [Web developers...