After running a successful business for 13 years, I have come to understand and appreciate the power of trusting my business instincts. Trust your instincts! Whenever I have gone against my natural business instincts, it’s almost always been the wrong thing to do! Even if I sometimes think on a conscious level that my ‘hunch’… Continue Reading
Marketing tips and ideas to help you grow your business, by Jim Connolly
Google and me!
As any of my regular readers will know, me and Google have a very strange relationship! I decided to write this blog exclusively for people and develop it’s readership via ‘social media marketing.’ As a marketing professional, I wince when I see blogs, which are clearly written primarily to score SEO points; with the actual… Continue Reading
A new year or the same old year over again?
For most businesses, the first week in January is not the start of a New Year – It’s simply the chance to live the same old year over and over and over again! They carry on investing their time and money in all the wrong places and thus, they get the same kind of results. … Continue Reading
Marketing in a recession
Last month, I interviewed some business owners, who not only survived the last recession but actually grew their businesses; whilst those around them saw their businesses shrink or go broke. I wanted to know what their secret was, so I could share it with you! It became apparent very quickly that there was a single,… Continue Reading
Movement or progress?
As we move into a brand new year, I would like to share one of the simplest, yet most valuable pieces of advice I know with you. Don’t mistake movement for progress! Progress is not the result of hard work. If hard work were the secret to success, our grandparents would have been millionaires!Progress only… Continue Reading
Your marketing map!
In this post, I am going to show you a very simple way to make your marketing massively more powerful. Most small business owners / entrepreneurs have only a vague idea of what they want from their business. They tend to be highly-motivated and launch themselves like a rocket into their work. However, with a… Continue Reading
Twitter photo shock from PhotoShop
We have all heard those stories, where someone has used PhotoShop to make themselves look younger, more handsome or thinner – right? Well, what I am about to share with you here is what I call photo-shock! It’s the shock someone experiences when they meet someone for the first time, who they have previously only… Continue Reading
Blog marketing tip
If you want to achieve great results with your online marketing, I believe you need to become a really good observer. This means developing the ability to see what other people miss; to observe what someone is doing in order to get a result. For example, I received an email recently from someone who made… Continue Reading