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Brainstorming When You Work For Yourself
In my prior blog, I mentioned that I brainstorm to come up with ideas to write about. This can, at times, be difficult when it’s just you coming up with them. Unlike when you work within a team; where brainstorming can be easy as you have a range of people surrounding...
Notebooks are Important
I’m going to start this blog with a note of importance: whether you use a physical notebook or electronic, find whatever method works for you. Using both physical and electronic notebooks works for me well but might not for you. I’ve been writing content on my own...
Book Review: You are a Badass by Jen Sincero
For the month of January, I was reading the book You are a Badass: How to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life by Jen Sincero. What’s it about? This book describes itself as being the self help book to read when you want to improve your life...
January Blog Round Up
The following blog post is a list of blogs I read during January that I found worthwhile of sharing with others. They cover a range of topics which relate to websites, marketing, social media and other topics. The 5 Pages Every Freelancer Should Have on Their Website...
Flexibility in Design is a Must
After building websites for a while, you begin to discover that it isn’t always easy to meet the exact specifications of your clients. You do everything in your power, but sometimes, it just isn’t always feasible to do so. I don’t tend to work often from a design...
The Power of NOW by Eckhart Tolle
For the month of April, I was finishing reading the book The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. What’s it about? This book looks at the challenging but extraordinarily rewarding journey to find the power of now. Reason I chose this book This was another book that had been...
Content Sharing
You will have noticed that once a month, I share content that comes from other people as one of my blogs. I have had a few people ask me why I do this as to them it doesn’t make much sense for a few reasons. Aren’t you in competition with those you are sharing? In a...
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Components of Website
After speaking to a few clients recently, I decided that it’s important to cover a few terms that come up regularly around web sites. I’ve tried to break these components down into layman’s terms as much as possible. If you know them, great! If you don’t, don’t...
Regular Website Maintenance
For many small businesses, besides Facebook, their website is their main form of marketing. It gives them a sense of legitimacy and a way for people to understand their services. It becomes the backbone to their business. Yet what happens when the website no longer...
Why Content is Required Before Developing Your Site
You might notice that when shopping around for a web designer that you get asked to provide the content before the start date. I request content as one of the first things needed from my clients. But why is it necessary when you are still working out your design...
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Taking Some Action is Good, Taking Regular Action is Better
Become known as a source of good content, build your brand by taking action. By only posting ocassionally, you not only have to win over new people, but those who have lost interest. And those are harder to win back. If you're struggling for ideas for what to talk...
No Comments, No Worries
Feeling disappointed after loading content onto your website to have no reaction? Wonder why you should continue considering that no one has made you feel like what you've said is worthwhile? I get it! I do. But here's why you should say, no comments, no worries! And...
How much should I write?
When writing a blog post, there are so many elements to keep in considering that sometimes it’s hard to keep track of it all; especially when you are struggling to either find the words, or reining the words in. I’ve recently had a few conversations with people over...
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No Comments, No Worries
Feeling disappointed after loading content onto your website to have no reaction? Wonder why you should continue considering that no one has made you feel like what you've said is worthwhile? I get it! I do. But here's why you should say, no comments, no worries! And...
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Phishing
In a nutshell, phishing is an attempted to convince people to enter in their login details into a fake website that replicates another site, in a means of gaining this information for use illegally. How does it work? Phishing works in a few ways to get the same...
Scripting… again!
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Nerves and What to do with your hands
TRANSCRIPT Hi all, Anne here. So a while back I did a couple of videos in relation to nerves and one of the more recent questions I've had is what do I do with my hands? If you're a person who talks with your hands, handing your hands by your side is going to...
Continuing on with Confidence is key
So I did a video post about confidence and how you if you aren't confident in something and allowing yourself to be discouraged, you won't break the block. During the video I was talking about the area I've been having issue with in relation to my skating, so I just...
Confidence Is Key
Confidence is such a hard thing to gain at times and can take a while to build in someone. When it comes to videos, it's no different than any other skill, such as roller skating! Keep at it, keep practicing. Keep building your confidence to film.
Email Organisation Tips
You have an intense relation with your email. We have to utilize our inbox several times a day and when we are unable to open an email, we simply use the power of archive. However, it leads to the collection of excessive clutter in our inbox. So it is the time that we...
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Book Review: You are a Badass by Jen Sincero
For the month of January, I was reading the book You are a Badass: How to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life by Jen Sincero. What’s it about? This book describes itself as being the self help book to read when you want to improve your life...
January Blog Round Up
The following blog post is a list of blogs I read during January that I found worthwhile of sharing with others. They cover a range of topics which relate to websites, marketing, social media and other topics. The 5 Pages Every Freelancer Should Have on Their Website...
The Power of NOW by Eckhart Tolle
For the month of April, I was finishing reading the book The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. What’s it about? This book looks at the challenging but extraordinarily rewarding journey to find the power of now. Reason I chose this book This was another book that had been...