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National Poetry Day – your creative self

March 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Inspiration, Words

National Poetry Day is a great opportunity to get re-inspired. Poetry inspires us by getting to the heart of it all.  Suddenly we see things in a different light, we think and feel in a new way and then become renewed ourselves.  We all need constant inspriation in our work, as a way of connecting [...]

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Tags:poetry

Finish the job cleanly and take away the radiator – it is the best marketing.

March 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Bit of a Rant, Technology, Words

Finish the job and complete the project to wow your customer. The trouble is that jobs often drag on, and change shape without having a sense of completion.  In fact your customers may not really know whether you have done a good job or not, but they will certainly be able to tell if the [...]

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Tags:customer service

Complimentary spam comments on your blog

August 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Face to Face Networking, Social media, Uncategorized, Words

Spam comments that told a story and did not appear to be spam did fool me and Akismet, the spam terminator on WordPress.    Because they were not just a bunch of dreary keywords, which I guess led back to a dubious site, I actually preferred deleting them.  Well, if you are going to delete spam [...]

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Tags:authentic·blog

Happy 1 month blog birthday

May 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Social media, Uncategorized, Words

My WordPress blog is four weeks old. Having had a few miscarriages of communication with previous blogs my idea this time was simply to behave as a real parent. My entirely new domain felt like a new domain in every sense. My blogging aims for the first month were: To provide the best care I [...]

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Tags:blog·spark·twitter·Wordpress

The Budget, the recession.. the conversation in their head

April 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Words

The Budget will be delivered to the UK later this week and whether or not there are specific financial taxes or tax allowances for business, business can gain. The Budget will be the focus of many breakfast and lunch meetings, the hot item of radio and TV news and a perfect way to connect with [...]

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Tags:conversation

Success at joining the self hosted WordPress.org blog party

April 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Words

What a sense of relief that this blog is seeing the light of day!  All I have to do now is write up some good content,  which I hope will prove valuable and useful.  It was the technical stuff that was my stumbling block, and I did ask myself why I didn’t outsource it to [...]

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Tags:blog·Wordpress