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Social media consultant and blogger Des Walsh on professionals working from home in the globally networked economy. Home based business for the 21st century.
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Having Fun with Serious Business
If doing business with a sense of fun works for Richard Branson, that’s good enough for me In recent weeks my partner Suzie Cheel and I have been very preoccupied with re-focusing our consulting business. Today, prompted by a four year old blog...
Gravatars – What, Why and How to Get One
A quick guide to the gravatar If you’ve noticed, when you leave a comment on a blog post, that other commenters have images of themselves alongside their comments but your comment has only a grey “mystery man” blob or a symbol like ...
How a Chocolate Bouquet Made My Night
A very tasty lesson in how to be remarkable Last night, as a panelist at the Networx Marketing Meeting in Brisbane, Australia, I received a delightful – and tasty – gift. At the end of the discussion session each of the panelists was pre...
Sunday Markets: Going Bananas
I love our regular Sunday morning visit to one or more of the local farmers’ markets. Not just for the wonderful fresh fruit and vegetables, direct from the grower, but for the friendly chat with stall holders, the passing parade of locals in t...
Getting Serious About Facebook
I’m currently re-jigging my business presence on Facebook and finding myself on a new learning curve about the platform and how it works. I don’t mind going through that learning process, because I believe that understanding how Facebook ...
My New Self-Designed Business Card
I need a new business card and I’m thinking through what I need to have on it and what the basic look will be. My existing one is a 2007 quick adaptation I did online of a professionally designed card which was originally done about four years ...
More on Branding and Communicating What We Do
In my post two days ago, about the speed of change and how my business specifically has changed in its shape and focus, I promised to share a recent experience of a friend’s comment which shocked me and made me think more about how well or othe...
Just How Valuable is Personal Branding?
I’ve been wondering whether Personal Branding is a Good Thing for me to pursue, or not. As I continued the process I wrote about yesterday, of figuring out how to answer effectively the “What do you do?” question and - by extension ...
Business and Branding #4: Online Reputation Management
n the third post in this series on business and branding I shared some thoughts about the concept of “Brand You”. An important part of the process of building your “Brand You” is taking steps to protect the brand and its reput...
Business and Branding #2: Finding What Works
In the first post of this short series on Business and Branding, I suggested that the business environment today requires that our brands be built for now, rather than, as in older times, built to last. The two are not, of course, inherently incompat...
Business and Branding #1: Built to Last or Built for Now
Working on some business planning lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about branding. Specifically about how I brand my business and how attitudes to branding have changed during my working life. Built to last, for a world that was I’m no br...
Give Your Blog A Polish and Trim
Does Your Blog Need Some Love? (c) Yo Ghurt Liz Strauss at Successful-Blog is having a Blog Show this weekend It will be like a Car (Auto) Show. Does your blog need a tune-up? As Liz suggests, give it a polish and a trim. Maybe unload some of...
Domains and Sites for Sale
Picture by JMGRIFFIN via stock.xghang We announced a couple of days ago that part of the plan to help Suzie get to Vancouver in June was to sell some web domains. In the process we found that a couple of actual sites we had set up had, without any ca...
thehomebusinessguydotcom Domain Name up for Sale
The domain name <thehomebusinessguydotcom> is for sale. “The Home Business Guy” was a name and a brand I toyed with about four years ago, around when I set up my original Thinking Home Business site. I bought the domain thehomebus...
