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Advice: Crossing the digital divide: 5 steps to filing with style

July 26, 2008

The ‘digital divide’ is said to delineate ‘Generation X’ from ‘Generation Y’ – those who grew up with personal computers vs those who grew up before them. While the definitions of the range of ages of these two generations differs depending on who you talk to, I would suggest that it’s not so much age-based, but confidence-based.

That said, let me pose a few typical computer filing situations, and show you how to ‘file with style’ in the virtual world, and feel more confident with your own digital information.

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Advice: A coffee and a blog for breakfast

June 20, 2008

How do you start your day? Coffee, tea or fresh OJ? Perhaps a slice of toast and the morning paper? For a lot of the population, it’s not only the morning wake-up routine, but it’s also their chance to get their daily dose of news and events.

Newspapers are still a fresh and consistent source of local and regional news and events, with their wide range of columns and inserts, but (you *knew* there was a ‘but’ coming, didn’t you?) newspapers are edited for the general population, with general interest and general topics that generally please everyone…

Let me show you a way to pick and choose your own topics of interest from around the world, and roll-your-own newspaper, so that you can start the day with your perfect selection of news, columns, and advice – and begin your day with coffee and a blog for breakfast.

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Advice: The Cashflow Crunch: Who, what, when and how to survive one

May 19, 2008

So what really is cashflow? Why is it so important? And how the heck is my business going to survive this trend? Important questions – and if you don’t already know the answers, then it’s vital for your business that you read on…

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Advice: Plan A: How to write a good business plan.

April 21, 2008

A business plan should never be an anchor or a dead weight dragging your business down – and it should never be an onerous task to put one together.

The good news is that there are 3 wildly different types of business plans – each one focussing on a different business purpose – and one of these types of plans should suit your needs perfectly, without undue effort.

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Advice: Starting Something New – A ‘How To’ Guide

March 19, 2008

It all starts here: with the tiny seed of an idea. Perhaps it’s extending your current business into a market of a competitor; perhaps your ‘something new’ is to find a synergistic product or service that you can promote alongside your current range, but that cross-sell each other, and boost your total sales figures.

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Advice: Googling 101: How to get better results from your Google Searches.

November 19, 2007

Just like getting to know your way around your local library, you really have to get to know Google if you want to find things faster and easier – the good news is that there are many tips, tricks and techniques to getting the most out of searching for things on the internet – so sit back, and I’ll show you some of the best ones.

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Advice: Play it again, Sam: 12 ways to organise your music collection.

October 21, 2007

You’re writing about how to organise you music? On a business blog? Yep – you heard it right. As put so eloquently in the movie ‘The Castle’, it’s just, well, ‘the vibe’ of it, really… It doesn’t matter whether you’re in small business, big business, working from home, or not working at all: music can [...]

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Advice: The Science of Getting Things Done – Part Two

August 20, 2007

Last month I introduced a concept of ‘Getting Things Done’ – a bit of an Internet phoenomenon, whereby all your emails in your inbox, and all your files on your computer are attended to with a firm application of some really easy to follow rules – rather than let lie dormant for weeks or months on end.

This month, we continue – onwards and upwards!

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Advice: Photoshop Tutorial: You *can* judge a book by it’s (fake) cover

August 20, 2006

Here’s a quick Photoshop tutorial based on a recent project of mine – typesetting a 900 page book for a ReBusiness client, complete with a new cover design and matching web site…

The problem was that the book had to be publicised well before the printers had completed their print run – so the book had to be quickly mocked up (faked) in Photoshop for the promotional material – a fun half-day job. Here’s how I did it…

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