Put it in your diary, set your alarms, call your web designer – important news alert from Google. If your website is not responsive (and that means if, when viewed on a mobile site, visitors see the desktop version and have to zoom in and out and move the screen sideways to read the content) then April…
Talking to Hunger magazine about getting jobs in Hollywood, the actor Jeremy Irvine recently described how he is being pressured into becoming a Twitter hit to land jobs. ‘It’s got to the stage where film producers ask me how many Twitter followers I have before I get a role,’ he said. Irvine talks about how…
I’ve recently been working on building this website for Sky News’ broadcaster Samantha Simmonds. Previously, she had a fairly dated website which really didn’t showcase all her talents and achievements, or allow her a place to blog. She wanted a new modern website that bought together all her work in one place, and provided a platform…
Bear Grylls: adventurer, writer, author and television presenter. Not only surviving in the wild, but thriving, it appears when it comes to his website. Bear Grylls has a staggering 500,000 people on average Googling his name each month. And recognising an opportunity, he responds to searchers with this fantastic website. Most people know who Bear…
Now, you might know that I’m a sucker for insisting that people who have, or who want to have a personal brand and be known in their industry as the best at, or a leader at, or someone you can really trust, or someone who is really talented, must have a GREAT website. Your website is…
If you are a celebrity, an author, a journalist, if you work in tv as a presenter, a producer, a scriptwriter, if you’re a dancer, a pundit, if you are self-employed it any way and you get booked or commissioned because your ‘name’ or your particular experience, then you have a personal brand. Even if…
Is seeing a degree on a job application important? Recently, Talk Business magazine posed the question to their twitter followers of whether or not the abundance of young people now attending university makes seeing a degree on a job application largely uninteresting or unimportant. Watching the debate unfold, I felt compelled to step in. Uninteresting…
For the past seven years, I’ve carried with me a folder that is my personal ‘Winner’s Bible.’ I created it with the help of Dr Kerry Spackman’s best selling book, The Winner’s Bible, which shows you how to permanently rewire your brain and transform your life, using the same groundbreaking success tools he used for…
Why women don’t like setting financial goals In her book, Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich, Lois P. Frankel discusses the complex relationship women have with money and setting financial goals. She talks about a female culture that has indoctrinated women to focus on surviving, rather than thriving. I’ve noticed this with the women around me. So many…
In her history, Barbie has had over 150 careers. And this week, Mattel unveiled her career of 2014 – entrepreneur. And here’s ‘entrepreneur Barbie’, dressed in a neon pink dress and carrying her own smart phone and tablet. ‘We always try to make career Barbie a reflection of the times,’ Mattel spokeswoman Michelle Chidoni said.…
1) My children might suffer Hands up if you have honestly never ever looked at your mum and thought ‘Its YOUR fault that XXX happened to me’ or ‘Its because of YOU that I haven’t XXXX.’ And do you remember how, as a teenager, nothing your mum ever did was right? If she spoke, what…
She’s one of the UK’s most famous business women Recently, I was lucky enough to get to spend the evening with the likes of Debbie Moore, Lucinda Ellery, Iain Duncan-Smith, Katie Piper, Barbara Windsor and Gloria Huniford at a Women in Business event hosted by the Right Honourable Esther McVey, Minister for Employment. It took…