Does Your About Page Say Who You Are and What You Do?

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Would you go masked to a business meeting? Surely not. But that is effectively what people do when they tell us nothing about themselves in the content of the About or About us page on their site. I don’t know of any research that explains why so many business people neglect to provide any content […]

Would the Richard Branson Sense of Fun Work for Home Based Business?

Looking today for some inspiration for a blog post, I decided to take a dive into the archives (a standard tip as one of the ways to deal with blogger’s block). I noticed that back in October 2004 I had posted here about some key principles to which Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson  is said […]

Having Fun with Serious Business

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If doing business with a sense of fun works for Richard Branson, that’s good enough for me In recent weeks my partner Suzie Cheel and I have been very preoccupied with re-focusing our consulting business. Today, prompted by a four year old blog post about Sir Richard Branson’s business values, we reminded ourselves about the […]

Gravatars – What, Why and How to Get One

A quick guide to the gravatar If you’ve noticed, when you leave a comment on a blog post, that other commenters have images of themselves alongside their comments but your comment has only a grey “mystery man” blob or a symbol like the one in the margin here, where the others have pictures of themselves, […]

How a Chocolate Bouquet Made My Night

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A very tasty lesson in how to be remarkable Last night, as a panelist at the Networx Marketing Meeting in Brisbane, Australia, I received a delightful – and tasty – gift. At the end of the discussion session each of the panelists was presented with a bouquet. When I saw the bouquets being brought up […]