Today is International Town Criers Day. They were the social media of their day, the fastest way to get messages spread around the country. They delivered important messages, messages from the king and government. They also read out the reasons for hanging someone at their execution, but that’s been somewhat glossed over! What can […]
Blogging for business
What are the best titles for blog posts (that customers will truly value)?
The headline, the blog post title, the email subject line. How often do you get no further than those things? In fact, I might be in trouble here, because you might not have actually got this far. If you are still reading, then the first hook worked. This time. A health warning […]
What happens to your blog when you need a holiday?
When this post goes live, I’ll just about be on my way back from the airport. Not that I’ve been away, just dropping off my teenager to start her adventures on a trip to the US. But it’s coming into holiday season, which always raises the question, what to do with your blog and […]
What’s your time monster?
“I don’t have time”. We all say it. We probably even think we mean it. But we all get the same number of hours allotted to us. Obama ran the US on the same number of hours as you get. Michelle Obama got those incredible arms and wasn’t exactly sitting around filing her nails […]
Normal service will be resumed shortly
This is not the post that I was planning today. I was midway through editing a post from a great interview with Richard Budd, the photographer. It was a fascinating conversation, that already caused me to rewrite a recent post. There’s lot of good stuff in it, on the value of photography, what happens […]