Building your personal brand, planning for PR success
Are you a thought leader? To build recognition as a leading voice in your industry, public relations is often key. In this post, I look at five key questions that you’ll need to consider when creating your own PR plan. What do you want to achieve? It’s unlikely you want media exposure for the hell [...]
A counsellor blogs (with trepidation).
What can a counsellor write about that’s safe to be read in an unrestricted environment? Throughout my training, if there was one thing that was drilled into me more than anything, one thing that I have become most sensitive about as a counsellor, it’s confidentiality. Of course, confidentiality, in the immediate sense, refers to the [...]
Keep Calm and Carry On
This wonderfully sensible motto caught my eye through one of those “Disaster Movies sponsored by…” trailers and I rather like it. Created in 1939 by the British government, with over 2 million posters printed and ready for distribution in the event of invasion, to remind the British to do just that - Keep Calm and Carry [...]
The blogwatcher – Great Content is not King.
Like most things in life, I am late to blogging. When other business people were blogging their thoughts and interests and becoming citizen journalists, I was busy starting my second family. Image by Getty Images via Daylife A dear friend and a person that dishes out good advice one referred to me as a blog [...]
Practice makes perfect
I suppose this truism is repeated so many times and in so many different ways, just because we don’t want to believe it. Genius is 99 percent perspiration. The harder I work, the luckier I get. I don’t think it’s just that we are lazy. Sometimes I think it comes down to that trained fear [...]
In her shoes: My descent in entrepreneurial hell
In her shoes is a series of anonymous posts from women in business, sharing their experience. In your comments you are asked to answer the question – What would you do in her shoes? My story began 9 months ago; it is a story of self-realisation, friendship, love and betrayal. After 11 years at home [...]
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