‘You have it within you to achieve your goals. But so many of us are stuck: in patterns, in careers, in ruts. And we stay stuck, hoping, waiting and praying for someone or something else to make the changes that we need to make. I want to share with you how I found the courage…
I’m writing this on the train on my way home from Ted X Royal Tunbridge Wells, where I just gave my first ever Tedx Talk, called ‘It’s About Time To Step Out From Beneath The Fickle Finger Of Fate’. It wasn’t so long ago (erm, 6 weeks ago to be precise!) that I was watching…
This week, I gave a talk at Stylist Live called ‘From Blog To Business’. During the Q&A, one lady’s question really stood out. She was talking about how she writes a blog post, and then procrastinates over it for hours, emailing it to several people to review, making all their changes (of course, if you…
Over the following weeks, I’m going to be showcasing the blog stars and experts featured in my book, The Million Dollar Blog. Today, let’s hear from bestselling author, Andy Weir Meet Andy Andy Weir is a former computer programmer who blogged about space and science. He started writing a story on his blog about a…
Over the following weeks, I’m going to be showcasing the blog stars and experts featured in my book, The Million Dollar Blog. First up, it’s Elsie & Emma Chapman from A Beautiful Mess. Meet Emma & Elsie Gorgeous sisters Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman from Missouri are the owners of A Beautiful Mess, a DIY…
Last night, I went to the ‘Blogosphere’ magazine launch party, featuring Victoria from In The Frow (pictured) on it’s cover. It was attended by a load of bloggers, and at the end, we were all given incredible goody bags. It made me think how 15 years ago, brands were clamouring to give goody bags to magazine…
Every time a new site goes live, everyone involved in its development thinks ‘Phew!’ Most websites are bigger project than you imagine, both for the person/team building it, and nearly always for the person who wants it built. So once that effort is complete and the site is live, it’s only normal to want to put…
Last week, I had one of those days that if you want to write a book, you dream about happening. The doorbell rings, and a man is standing there is a big box, and you think ‘What the h*ck is this?’ and you open it to discover it contains the real, finished, printed, final, actual,…
Whenever I’m doing publicity, I’m always thinking about the audience, and whether they are prisoners or not! You see, most of the time, we go through our lives highly distracted. We’re listening to the radio, but we’re also writing blog posts (just as I am right now) and reading emails. We’re reading the news, on…
This is Maureen Forrest, the founder of The Hope Foundation, a charity that works with street children in India. I’m currently helping The Hope Foundation with their publicity, and I wanted to share Maureen’s story here as she is such an inspiration to all of us. Today, at 69, when many of her friends and…
Ah, our 20s. Some of the most fun and carefree times of our lives. And a natural result of total distraction with social and love lives is waking up somewhere close to 30 and finding yourself thinking ‘Erm, can someone remind me why I am even a doctor/teacher/lawyer/insertyourprofession here after all’. So what happens if…
It’s cool, fun and judging by its 500 million active followers, immensely popular, largely because of the power of pictures to communicate better than words, especially for visually lead or female facing brands, businesses and personalities. But how do you go from just any-old-filter-and-picture-filled Instagram account to one of those beautifully styled, themed and crafted…