I am considering starting a podcast. Turning over in my mind the pros and cons. I don’t want to start one that I would not be happy to put my name to, that I could not have some pride in and want to say, with some justified satisfaction, ‘I made this’. The starting point in […]
Author Archives: Terry Gorry
Digital Panhandling Is Not a Marketing Strategy
If you are running your own small business and it is heavily dependent on spamming your friends on the various social media platforms to buy your stuff you probably don’t have a real business. You almost certainly need to reconsider your marketing strategy, assuming one was generous enough to consider such unwanted, uninvited interruptions online […]
Writing As Art
I have been labouring under the misapprehension all my life that a sentence must have a verb. Master McDyer told us this in the national school in Enfield when I was in 5th class. ‘Hogs grunt’, he would say, ‘that’s a sentence’. I have just finished a book called ‘The Elements of Eloquence: How To […]
How to Speak Like a Leader
How to convince and persuade by the use of words is something that fascinates me. Regardless of whether the words are written or spoken the power to move other people with your choice of words and formulation of what you wish to say has been evident from time immemorial. From Aristotle’s ‘Rhetoric’ (also known as […]
Why I Rarely Answer the Phone
I rarely answer my phone. The reason is because I find it inefficient and wasteful of the scarce and decreasing resource of my time. It is interruptive, too, of course, and I can be caught off guard and I run the risk of responding or reacting to what the caller has to say without considering […]
This Might Not Work
Travelling east towards Dublin in the old N4 at Moyvalley you will see a piece of waste ground just off the main road. It is in front of what used to be ‘McGovern’s’ pub and just before you see ‘Fureys’ pub on the left. It is an area of approximately a half acre, I would […]
Besmirching the Tricolour
Something I’ve noticed lately on certain social media sites, such as Twitter and YouTube, is the use of the Irish tricolour in the profiles of certain individuals who hold views ranging from xenophobia to racism. These keyboard warriors, most of whom hide behind a fake name, feel free to spout hateful bile about the State, […]
Learning from Sherlock Holmes
I’m a firm believer in the immense value of reading and I’m not sure I can recall any book, no matter how poor, from which I have not learned something. I’m reading the definitive Sherlock Holmes collection at the moment and, surprisingly, I have come across a few unexpected gems. In the ‘Sign of the […]
The Vital Importance of Signals in Your Business
Imagine you have had the proud pleasure of attending a child’s graduation from university. And imagine you book a table for 10 at a local restaurant, and look forward to the food, drink, company, and company of your family in a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere. Imagine, though, that the restaurant staff send out the wrong signals. […]
Bread and Blog Posts
Every Saturday I make a loaf and a blog post. The loaf I made is the white one you see on this page. The blog post is about the 6 month time limit to bring an employment claim to the WRC and how you can show ‘reasonable cause’ in order to get the time limit […]