It’s now just 23 days since I established this blog and the feedback has been breathtaking. It has achieved more in those 23 days than I could possibly have hoped for and now that the dust has settled, it’s time for me to refine the focus of the blog. As a result, I shall [...]
Author Archives: Jim Connolly
Blog idea – Love everyone!
If your blog attracts regular comments, there’s a good chance that those comments are influencing the content of your posts.
Whilst this can be a good thing, it can also cause a blogger to make incorrect changes to how he or she writes or even what they write about. That’s because those who comment on [...]
The power of “thank you”
This post is all about 2 small words, which can make a huge difference to peoples lives.
I’m talking about: Thank you.
It’s amazing how powerful a simple thank you can be. By showing your appreciation to someone, you can; make their day, boost their self-esteem and help turn an average day for them into something special.
Whilst [...]
Human powered blog traffic
This blog idea is all about how to develop a great, high quality readership for your blog.
I want to state up front that I’m a supporter of the power of effective search engine optimisation (or SEO). That said, I also believe that relying exclusively on SEO in order to build a great audience for [...]
Pause – Then hit send!
When we give a short, written message to someone, it’s extremely easy for us to be misunderstood. This can lead to a lot of issues, especially as so many of our communication tools today encourage short format messages.
Blog comments, Friendfeed, forums, Twitter, Facebook, text messages etc, are prime examples of messages that are [...]
Speed or quality?
If you ever wondered why so many blog posts and newsletters are uninspiring, you only need to examine the mindset of some content writers.
Someone sent me a link to a tweet yesterday. The tweet went something like this;
“I wonder how many articles and posts I can write before 6 o’clock?”
This gave that person [...]
Blog Idea – Cheap hosting can be costly!
I was reading post last week, on a search engine optimisation (SEO) blog. As I’m interested in SEO and there were several other interesting posts, I bookmarked the site and decided to go back later.
When I went back to the site (5 hours later), I found that the blog was ‘down.’ This [...]
Who benefits from YOUR social media time?
Blogging is an incredibly powerful tool for business development and a great way to share ideas and connect with people. It’s an excellent way to deliver content and build amazing communities around that content.
However, many bloggers spend just a tiny percentage of their ’social media time’ actually blogging. Their blogs are seldom updated, yet [...]
Blog ideas – Full disclosure of hyper-links
When people visit a blog for the first time, there’s a tendency for them to be a little nervous about clicking hyper-links.
Some links provide relevant information to the reader, regarding the subject you are covering.
Some point to affiliate partners.
Some links manage to do both successfully. They send the reader to [...]
Blog ideas – Keep it real
I was looking at a blog yesterday, which was an affiliate of a certain wordpress theme. I noticed instantly that the blog wasn’t using the theme itself; which struck me as odd. I emailed the blog’s owner and asked if he was using that theme on any other sites, so I could take [...]
How to be lucky
Have you ever noticed how some people are really lucky? These lucky people always seem to be in the right place at the right time and they attract great opportunities, as if they were a good luck magnet. Here in this post, I am going to show you how you too can become incredibly lucky [...]
Where’s your strategy taking you?
With the right strategy, you can achieve almost anything. Seriously, whatever current business or career problems you have, you can solve them so long as you learn the correct problem-solving strategy for that situation.
For example, have you ever heard the famous saying; “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink!”
The [...]
Nervous or excited?
A friend of mine used to get nervous a lot and shared this great tip with me, which helped her overcome the problem immediately. I tried this simple idea myself, when I first started public speaking and it worked for me too.
It’s all about how the power of words can change the way [...]
Overcoming fear
One of the primary reasons that people fail to reach their full potential, is fear. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of the unknown – just plain old fashioned fear. If fear is causing you to miss out on opportunities, this post has some ideas that you might find useful.
I wrote an article once, [...]
Headway: Removing the barriers
If, like me, you are a blogger BUT you are not a coder or CSS expert, life can often be extremely frustrating. However, thanks to a discovery I made last week, these frustrations are a thing of the past – That’s why I want to share what I have found with you.
Like most [...]
