Why I won’t be starting a podcast
Podcasts and podcasting are all the rage nowadays. But I won’t be starting one, even though I have been requested to do so by subscribers to my YouTube channel....
Category: Small Business
1 powerful ingredient common to baking bread, disputes, and negotiating property transactions
There is one tremendously effective ingredient that can be deployed to baking bread, employment (and other legal) disputes, and negotiating to buy or sell prope...
Google My Business Review-going from a 1 star to 5 stars and restoring faith in human nature
I wrote yesterday about receiving what I knew to be a deeply unfair one-star review on Google My Business. I knew it was unfair because I had advised the chap p...
Why Google My Business Reviews are unfair
The system by which Google allows reviews to be published for small businesses is inherently unfair and open to abuse. Let me explain. In my business I am charg...
Investing in shares-6 tried and tested principles
Have you ever considered investing in shares in the stock market? If you are thinking about investing some hard earned cash, and you have concerns and fea...
How this 39 second video works so effectively
I made a 39 second video recently which packs a punch and does a great deal of heavy lifting for me. It follows a certain formula I use when making a particular...
Why my chatbot Watson is back (and the surprising reason he went away for a while)
When I made a chatbot (Watson) for my websites with the IBM Watson Assistant programme in November 2018 I was stunned as to how intelligent it was, and the pote...
Avoid the familiar mistake of seeking perfection in your marketing
I read an update on LinkedIn the other day from a small business owner who has evidently embraced video marketing as part of her marketing strategy. This is a f...
Spare a Thought for the Publicans
Imagine being a publican at the moment. Imagine you are in a sparsely populated rural area and there is a couple of generations of the same family working in, a...
Flashbacks at the filling station
I went up the street last week to pick up some milk at the filling station and suffered flashbacks. You see the petrol station I visited is just up the street f...