This blog was 2 years old last month and in that time I have learned many, often expensive lessons. In order to help you avoid some of the costs and frustrations that I went through, here are 6 things I wish I knew before I started blogging. 1. Everyone starts from scratch Most blogs start…
Monthly Archives: September 2010
You don’t have to be Dr Who to travel back in time!
If you want to travel back in time like Dr Who, just take a look at the way some businesspeople operate right now! It’s as if an entire swathe of business owners, are stuck in some kind of commercial time-warp. These time trapped individuals are either unaware of the commercial possibilities that surround them in…
Do you make these mistakes?
I study small business marketing, all day, every day. Here are the 5 marketing and business development mistakes, which I see most often. 1. Swimming in the same direction as your competitors The single most common marketing mistake most small business owners make, is that they tend to be far too similar to their competitors. …
4 ideas to boost your creative output!
Lots of people ask me how I manage to find the ideas and the time, to publish so much content online. For those who don’t know, as well as writing posts here most days, I have also recently written and published 28 updates on my soon to launch site, over at jimconnolly.com. That’s a total…
Do you eat your own dog food?
If you follow your own advice or use your own products, we call it eating your own dog food. Dogfooding is a great way to gain the trust of your marketplace and show them that you believe in what you say. However, when someone tells the marketplace one thing and does the opposite, they erode…
Growing pains? No, not at all!
As some of you may have noticed, I didn’t publish a post here yesterday. That’s because I’ve just had this blog moved from it’s former hosting, to what’s known as a dedicated server. In other words, this blog now lives on it’s own hardware with only my sites on it. The new server is extremely…
This post is for bloggers only!
If you have a business blog, which is not generating the results you want, this post is written just for you! I received an email this morning, from a reader who has a 12 month old business blog, which he’s unhappy with. I get emails like this every day. The problem is so common that…
Financial security is more than a number!
A business owner asked me recently, what my definition of financial security was. I started by asking him what HIS definition was. He said that if he had a million in the bank, that would give him enough to be financially secure for life. I disagreed. Financial security isn’t a number Financial security is more…
Why I LOVE passive income and why you should too!
Today, I thought I would quickly talk with you about what some people call passive income, though is more accurately referred to as residual income. It’s something I am working on with almost all of my clients right now. It’s easy to see why. The idea is that you create something once, then earn from…
Some people I want to thank (Check them out!)
It’s always great when people take time out, to share your work with their friends and contacts. In no particular order, here are just some of the people who were kind enough to share my posts and ideas, help and support me over the past 7 days: Thank you! Julie Walraven from Design Resumes Maggie…
There’s gold everywhere!
I live in the countryside and this time of year, something visually amazing happens: Everything turns to gold! The green country lanes of a few weeks ago are slowly transforming into golden, spiralling highways. It serves as a great reminder to me that golden opportunities often start off by looking very different. We only see…
