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Had some thoughts today and thought I would share to hopefully inspire some wider thinking. Let me know your thoughts.

What is your approach to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for your Business, Brand and Website?

Is it Strategic or Prescriptive? SEO is evolving!

When you do an online search, do you see #Google serving up short summary snippets in a featured box? This is a featured snippet and is something that you as a website and #business owner should want to be part…

Are you marching forwards with your Website?

Is it time to step forward and create a new direction for your WordPress Website and Digital Marketing?

Or is it time to change the marching direction…

Candidate Screening Across Social Media – What’s The Point?

Social media continues to evolve and the world has become increasingly savvy about how to use privacy settings and what can and can’t be communicated on their social media accounts.  There is a time and a place to complain about your boss or flaunt those photos of you…

Face masks should be an essential part of your skincare routine.  They can help draw out impurities, hydrate and balance your skin.

The best part is you don’t have to spend a fortune to make them part of your weekly routine!  Just combining a few simple ingredients can help make all the difference.

Mask 1:      Raw Honey &…

Are you making New Year resolutions for 2019? Here are our 6 TOP TIPS to help those changes stick!

Now the last of the turkey and most of the Christmas chocolate mountain has been eaten, it is natural that our thoughts turn to the New Year as a chance to refresh or reinvent ourselves in the year ahead.

Are you looking forward to starting afresh? That’s great, but quite often we find that while it’s not…

A fundamental change under data protection laws, in this case, The GDPR – the new data protection regulation which came into force in May – will have particular relevance for anyone involved in a franchisor/franchisee relationship.

Why? Because of the way in which data is handled; a franchisee operates their own business and is, under the existing Data Protection Act 1998 (“DPA”), a controller (i.e. a person that determines the purpose for and manner in which data is…

Social anxiety is more than just being a bit nervous in a crowd of people. It is a strong and irrational fear of being judged and evaluated negatively by others, leading to feelings of inadequacy, inferiority, discomfort, self-consciousness and embarrassment. The anxiety can be so strong that it causes physical symptoms too, such as…

When we give to charity, it generally leaves us with a positive feeling about ourselves, whether that is by donating money, our unwanted possessions or buying something from a charity shop. For this reason, it can be said that giving to charity is not an entirely unselfish act, and this is probably why the abuse scandals in UK charities have been so shocking. Ultimately we, the British public, as donors to charity have indirectly funded the abuse of the people we want to help, whether that…

Last Saturday (June 16th) after a superb lunchtime session with Schula's  meetup group I went for a stroll in Marble Hill Park, Richmond and spotted that the annual Open Day is THIS Saturday, June 23rd, from 11.00 - 14.00!! Click here for info...…

There are loads of Business Networking Events out there and I wanted to do something slightly different. I thought if I was to form my own Networking Group what would I like it to be?

Fun

The money I pay to go to local charities

Be able to have a Drink

Learn Something New

Do a Fun Activity

Meet lots of local Businesses

A way of promoting myself to everyone that attends

I came up with a Fun Poker Night. I have now organised over 10 of…

Working from home….It’s a bit of a Marmite issue in my mind.  Personally, I love the buzz and energy an office can provide, but I admit there are occasions when working from home and having some calm and less of a journey is a joyful thing.

Last week I was speaking with a candidate who had just obtained a role where he could work from home four…

Unfortunately these  FREE sessions (I'm going to both!) haven't made it into the NiS calendar as of now - but two are in London, to be fair!

There's a FREE GDPR training from OMNI, Monday May 21 @ the Mulberry Bush, Waterloo, 16.30-17.30 - check it out…

What’s the big deal with LinkedIn this time?

Well, as we speak LinkedIn is undergoing another big makeover - remember how radically it changed when Microsoft bought it for $26 billion? (Now that was a big…

Three things to bear in mind when considering this!

1. Do you need people to help your business be successful? 

If the answer is yes, how do you find those people?  How do you know if they can add value to your business?  What is the best way to bring them on board to your business?  Lots of questions but do you have the answer?  Possibly not because the reasons that you started a business was to provide a…

The power of networking. I want to say a huge thank you to Keith Grover of MyTeam and Networking in Surrey.

As host to the upcoming Wonderful World of Wellbeing Festival at Kempton Park Racecourse in May my initial attendance at MyTeam in January has become a fabulous journey. Having since met and worked with MyTeam members, together with recommendations from Keith for further networking around the community has proven invaluable. Meeting amazing business people doing great things,…

It’s hard to believe, but it will be ten years this year since the ratings site Glassdoor was launched.   The website allowing anonymous users to go online and write anything they like about your organisation seemed to be a relatively recent phenomenon to me - but clearly not. I guess the reason I and many clients are surprised by this anniversary is that only a couple of…

Detox! Detox! Detox! As we head towards Spring it’s the word that we hear banded around the world. I have lived and taught in 7 countries in the last four decades and every year the same old DETOX word pops it's head up along with the fresh greens we see as the earth starts warming. This is a topic that can have an enormous impact on your health. Detoxification is the term we describe the process of your body eliminating things that it was not designed to have such as heavy metals and toxic…

Of all the management issues you will face in the workplace, a medical certificate signing an employee off with stress, anxiety, depression, or some other form of mental illness, is guaranteed to make your heart sink. A variety of questions spring to mind: how long will the person be away? Is the workplace somehow responsible for the problem? Could you have seen it coming and done something to prevent it? What are you going to say to the person when they do come back? What,…