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How To Plan The Perfect Website!
According to Wikipedia – The Internet actually started in 1969, (yes, only 1969!), as the ARPANET, a Defense Department system designed to let survivors share files after a nuclear attack. From being available on just a handful of top secret computers, it’s grown to millions and millions of users.
And it’s still growing. According to a [...]
February 9, 2010
Tags: account, internet, marketing, networking, pat sutton, selling, website Posted in: business, how to guides, marketing, sales 
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Don’t get out! Don’t talk to people! Stay in your comfort zone!
If these words are music to your ears then join the club. There’s nothing I would like better than to be able to potter around in the office, produce new products and then wait until the business comes in as if by magic!
So why shouldn’t it work like that?
Hey, I’ve got a great website! My [...]
February 8, 2010
Tags: communication, marketing, networking, patsutton, personal development, relationships, verbal business card Posted in: business, marketing, personal development, tips 75 Comments
Has your business suffered due to the credit crunch?
It’s not often that I blatently promote something but for once our government has made the right decision to help ailing businesses in the West Midlands in The UK. It is a fact that the West Midlands has suffered more than any other area in the UK and at last this is being addressed. So [...]
February 4, 2010
Tags: communication, marketing, pat sutton, website Posted in: business, sales 2 Comments
The IPad – I want one.
I change my mobile every 6 or 7 months for no other reason than I fancy a change.
I buy something then use it for a little while then, when the novelty wears off, I sell it on Ebay.
If you were to look at my Ebay profile you would see that I actually admit to being [...]
January 31, 2010
Tags: Apple, communication, internet, IPad, pat sutton Posted in: New Products, marketing 43 Comments
Don’t wait for Business Opportunities to knock – you’ll wait forever!
If you’re sitting at home on the sofa watching Law and Order and you hear a rat-a-tat-tat on your door! Don’t get excited, it’s not a business opportunity knocking!
If you’re comfy in front of your computer chatting to someone on Facebook then your attention is in the wrong direction to notice a fleeting business opportunity [...]
January 30, 2010
Tags: account, communication, marketing, pat sutton, website Posted in: business, marketing, sales, tips 5 Comments
Don’t sack the receptionist – give her more work!
It’s so frustrating when you arrive at an office reception only to find that there’s no receptionist! There you stand, waiting for someone to notice you.
The staff manage to beaver away while at the same time giving you glances but, infuriatingly, not making any effort to come to your rescue?
You think, should I wait, should [...]
January 22, 2010
Tags: blog, communication, internet, marketing, twitter, website Posted in: business, marketing, tips, writing 2 Comments
A good way to beat writer’s block!
One of my favourite bloggers at the moment is James Chartrand. Here is one of his wonderful tips for when we’re suffering from blogger’s block.
“Great quotations are the richest goldmine of blog post ideas you’ll ever have.”
So I popped over to Wikiquote and found this great quotation by Sarah Bernhardt -Â “Life engenders life. Energy [...]
January 18, 2010
Tags: blog, communication, internet, marketing, pat sutton, relationships, taxi, website Posted in: Blogging, marketing, personal development, writing 2 Comments
So why should you have an official blog?
Did you know that blogging is the new “BLACK”?
A blog can be uploaded to networking sites to spread the word about your business – that’s free advertising!
A blog gives you the chance to voice your opinions to the world.
A good blog can generate subscribers and we all know how important they are!
A blog with the [...]
January 8, 2010
Tags: blog, marketing, relationships, twitter, website Posted in: Blogging, how to guides, marketing 5 Comments
How to market your website so that people buy from you!
It doesn’t matter what kind of business you have and how benevolent you are, you can give things away for free, you can raise money for great causes, you can hold people’s hands but everyone at sometime needs to make a living.
The baker puts bread on your table, not to feed your family but to [...]
December 7, 2009
Tags: blog, internet, marketing, pat sutton, relationships, selling, tweet, twitter, website Posted in: Blogging, how to guides, marketing, sales, writing 2 Comments
Forget the glass ceiling – use the fire escape instead!
When, after 8 years, I decided to emerge from the security of a monthly salary I was met with the usual, “Are you sures and are you mads”
Thankfully, I didn’t listen
I felt that as Marketing Director of a company like Advantage Business Angels I was being held back.
My talent for thinking outside the box was [...]
December 2, 2009
Tags: blog, communication, internet, marketing, motivation, pat sutton, personal development, relationships, twitter Posted in: Blogging, motivation, personal development One Comment
