Posts Tagged ‘business’
Guest post – The life of a woman in a senior role and dealing with adversity
Today I’m delighted to have a guest post from Sharon Sandercock, the Marketing & Communications Manager at the Isles of Scilly Steamship Group. She talks about being a woman in a senior role, how she has taken a non-digital company into the digital space (and trebled their online bookings!) and gives some amazing advice to other…
Read More5 reasons you should consider improving your LinkedIn skills
You may have seen that I’ve recently launched an online course on how to improve your linkedin skills. You can find it here: https://www.udemy.com/linkedin2017 I’ve been teaching our clients how to get the most from this powerful platform for many years now. I’ve been on the platform myself since the mid 2000’s. Its the most important…
Read MoreManaging your sales pipeline
Today has been a day of sales activity at Optix. I thought I’d share my thoughts and experience of CRM and how to setup your pipeline. I hope its useful.
Read MoreDo you actually want my business?
This is in danger of turning into a rant I’m afraid. Sorry about that. Recently I was in the market for a new car. I’d had my current wheels for about 6 years and although I loved them, they were getting a little old and my priorities had changed. Now it’s about showing my commitment…
Read MoreFailure For the Win!
In a world that shouts about success, it’s a natural human trait to regard failure as a negative thing. People often cover up their mistakes and find them hard to admit to. In my business I’m a huge believer in and encourage my team to shout from the roof tops about their failures (ok sometimes…
Read MoreThank You!
As I write this, at 8am on the morning of my birthday, I’ve already received numerous texts from people, tweets, linkedIn messages and facebook wall comments wishing me many happy returns. I’m actually quite overwhelmed by it. Thank you so much everyone. Many of the people on the social networks didn’t even know me a…
Read MoreBringing Social Media to the Masses in 2010
2009 saw an explosion in the social media world here in the UK. Yes, some early adopters were on a lot earlier than that but the majority of people that were still ahead of the curve, found their feet last year. Personally I found it very easy to get involved in everything going on and…
Read MoreWho do you surround yourself with? Oh and p.s. Happy New Year!
Who do you surround yourself with? Have a think about it for a while – in business and your personal life…never underestimate the power of the connections you have both in and out of work and how these have a huge impact on your own life. The people you interact with on a daily basis…
Read MoreBanish the Bland
What are you doing to make yourself stand out? Nothing? Really? You’re making it very tough on yourself in what is probably the most important time to try and differentiate – a slow economy. In my main web design business we’ve spent a lot of time this year working out how we can differentiate ourselves…
Read MoreInterview with Banksy and James
This post was done last year for our ninth birthday at Optix. As we turn ten next Monday I thought I’d revisit the interview for those that missed it. Interview with James Dawkins and Alastair Banks of Optix Solutions: It’s hard to believe that Alastair and James were merely 20 years old when they joined…
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