All posts tagged business blog

Keep your business blog fit and effective

Blogging is consistent publishing, online. It demands long-term commitment, creative inspiration and a combination of writing, marketing and web skills.

Not surprisingly, some people appreciate a little help with all that. Not someone to write their blog for them, but to get alongside to inspire new ideas, guide the tone and style, give online writing and editing tips and motivate them to keep on publishing.

The difference an hour makes

I offer a free hour so that you can taste the difference I could make to your web site as a content strategist – for absolutely nothing.

Only an hour? What could I possibly do in that time?

The answer (so far) is plan a blog post, write a tag line, critique a page or a whole web site, write a piece for a front page, or meet someone in the pub to talk about content strategy as a career …

Here are 3 highlights from some recent free sample requests:

Holding back notes on the trumpet and coming out top on Google

Two things stand out for me about estate agent Kevin Henry.
Firstly, they have a genuine passion about Saffron Walden because they’re local and have lived there for years, unlike the corporate agents who open hollow branches everywhere.
Secondly, because of this authenticity and experience – and years of hard work – they are repeatedly the number [...]

How to write great blog posts

I’ve put together a 2-hour workshop called ‘How to write great blog posts’.

It’s designed to show non-writers how to turn out fantastic articles for their business blogs, consistently.

It’s not just a presentation (in one ear and out the other). Rather it’s sitting down with an experienced web writer and learning hands-on some of the simple (when you know them) techniques for:

How to blog consistently (note to self)

Happy new year everyone.

I have one goal for SmyWord this year: to blog more consistently.

Last year was great – launching SmyWord, having a couple of big content cheeses drop by in the comments, receiving positive feedback from customers. But if I could change one thing, I wished I had upheld my promise to post a new article once a week.

Increasingly businesses I do content work for want blogs on their web sites. A real, honest blog by someone who loves their work is a wondrous thing (especially if they’re not meta-careerists). And one of the fundamental pieces of advice I give them – one of the make-or-break keys to successful blogging – is to blog consistently.