How To Plan The Perfect Website!
According to Wikipedia – The Internet actually started in 1969, (yes, only 1969!), as the ARPANET, a Defense Department system designed to let survivors share files after a nuclear attack. From being available on just a handful of top secret computers, it’s grown to millions and millions of users.
And it’s still growing. According to a [...]
February 9, 2010
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Pat Sutton · 
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Tags: account, internet, marketing, networking, pat sutton, selling, website · Posted in: business, how to guides, marketing, sales
The IPad – I want one.
I change my mobile every 6 or 7 months for no other reason than I fancy a change.
I buy something then use it for a little while then, when the novelty wears off, I sell it on Ebay.
If you were to look at my Ebay profile you would see that I actually admit to being [...]
January 31, 2010
· Pat Sutton · 58 Comments
Tags: Apple, communication, internet, IPad, pat sutton · Posted in: New Products, marketing
Don’t sack the receptionist – give her more work!
It’s so frustrating when you arrive at an office reception only to find that there’s no receptionist! There you stand, waiting for someone to notice you.
The staff manage to beaver away while at the same time giving you glances but, infuriatingly, not making any effort to come to your rescue?
You think, should I wait, should [...]
January 22, 2010
· Pat Sutton · 2 Comments
Tags: blog, communication, internet, marketing, twitter, website · Posted in: business, marketing, tips, writing
A good way to beat writer’s block!
One of my favourite bloggers at the moment is James Chartrand. Here is one of his wonderful tips for when we’re suffering from blogger’s block.
“Great quotations are the richest goldmine of blog post ideas you’ll ever have.”
So I popped over to Wikiquote and found this great quotation by Sarah Bernhardt -Â “Life engenders life. Energy [...]
January 18, 2010
· Pat Sutton · 2 Comments
Tags: blog, communication, internet, marketing, pat sutton, relationships, taxi, website · Posted in: Blogging, marketing, personal development, writing
How to market your website so that people buy from you!
It doesn’t matter what kind of business you have and how benevolent you are, you can give things away for free, you can raise money for great causes, you can hold people’s hands but everyone at sometime needs to make a living.
The baker puts bread on your table, not to feed your family but to [...]
December 7, 2009
· Pat Sutton · 2 Comments
Tags: blog, internet, marketing, pat sutton, relationships, selling, tweet, twitter, website · Posted in: Blogging, how to guides, marketing, sales, writing
Forget the glass ceiling – use the fire escape instead!
When, after 8 years, I decided to emerge from the security of a monthly salary I was met with the usual, “Are you sures and are you mads”
Thankfully, I didn’t listen
I felt that as Marketing Director of a company like Advantage Business Angels I was being held back.
My talent for thinking outside the box was [...]
December 2, 2009
· Pat Sutton · One Comment
Tags: blog, communication, internet, marketing, motivation, pat sutton, personal development, relationships, twitter · Posted in: Blogging, motivation, personal development
Retweet – What does it mean and how important is it!
A Retweet allows Twitter users to share their favourite tweets with their own followers.
So if someone has 10,000 followers and they like one of your tweets and they retweet it, then it will go out to all of their followers, good eh!
It is done by copying and pasting the original tweet and sending it out. [...]
November 30, 2009
· Pat Sutton · 2 Comments
Tags: blog, internet, marketing, tweet, twitter, website · Posted in: Blogging, FrontPage, how to guides, marketing, writing
Selling to the taxi driver!
You know, one of the easiest things to do on the internet is to assume that people are not being honest and that they are only talking to you because they have something to sell. Who do you think is to blame for that? We are of-course!
Have you noticed on the social networks how many [...]
November 18, 2009
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Tags: account, blog, communication, internet, marketing, motivation, personal development, selling, taxi, website · Posted in: FrontPage, marketing, sales, tips
6 steps closer to monetising your blog!
I’m often asked how to make money from Blogging.
Not wanting to dampen enthusiasm, it’s not a get rich quick scheme.
But it’s not impossible.
To get you there you need to have these six crucial skills:
1. Patience
2. Resilience.
3. A great imagination.
4. Knowledge.
5. The discipline to learn.
6. Multiple Income streams?
Why patience you say?
If you do everything right.
Join blogging [...]
November 17, 2009
· Pat Sutton · 9 Comments
Tags: account, blog, communication, internet, marketing, pat sutton, relationships, website · Posted in: Blogging, FrontPage, how to guides, sales
Put a sandwich board out to drive traffic!
The content of your website tells your visitors all about you and your business; it is your shop window. The problem is that if your shop is on a back street and you have no passers by then you need to get people to take a detour down your street! It’s easy, you put a [...]
November 10, 2009
· Pat Sutton · 12 Comments
Tags: blog, communication, internet, marketing, motivation, selling · Posted in: how to guides, marketing, sales, tips
