Author: Quentin Pain
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How To Be Successful In Business In 5 Easy Steps In 2021
This guide is split into two sections, the first is about the future. The second will help you get there. In 2017, Amazon added yet another patent to their drone delivery technology. It looks like something a school kid would draw up whilst doodling during a boring lesson in the ancient art of Mesopotamia or…
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A Proper SEO Strategy for 2021 and Beyond
It seems that everyone is struggling with SEO right now. No one quite knows what to do for the best. Google tells us if we do anything at all that breaks with their Terms of Service, they will downgrade our page, or worse, remove our sites from their search engine. The crazy thing is, it’s…
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How To Go Back To The Old (Classic) Version Of Facebook
UPDATE: 7th June 2020: All my Facebook groups were reverted back automatically to the original Facebook Classic look. It seems they must have had a problem with the new interface and reversed it. I don’t know if this is true for everyone though. 2020 saw a new version of Facebook. They’ve rolled it out at…
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What’s The Point Of Social Media?
That’s something I often hear from established businesses – yes – even today. 1/5th of the global population is now on Facebook every day. So if you have 100 customers, around 20 of them will have visited FB today (and remember that’s just an average across the planet – it’s not weighted by a country’s…
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Start With Why – A Summary Of Simon Sinek’s Book
If you haven’t seen Simon Sinek’s Start With Why video on YouTube – or you haven’t read the book, you are in for a treat. When I first came across it, I didn’t really ‘get’ it, but I certainly did a little later when I re-discovered it. It’s a gem of an idea, so I…
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This is Philosophy
When you become real with yourself and those you meet, it will take a while to gain respect. But that respect will be real and not skin deep. This is philosophy Humans are able to believe. Philosophy is how we do it. We have choice. We can choose. We can choose our philosophy. You can…
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It’s Time To Be A Kid Again
If there’s one simple lesson in Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, it’s this: plan your future. He uses the case of building a house. You don’t just turn up with a bunch of labourers and a pile of bricks and build something. You get an architect and talk about how you want…
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What Is Search Engine Optimisation And Does It Matter To Copywriters?
What is Search Engine Optimisation? Some local businesses I talk to believe they need it, others think it’s a waste of time. But does it matter to copywriters? Yes, absolutely it does, but not in the way you might think. Copywriting is ALL about conversion. If your copy doesn’t convert, it fails. And if your…
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Test My Site With Google
“Test My Site With Google” is Google‘s latest tool to test your site for mobile and desktop devices and for the speed and usability of your site on both those platforms. There are many good things about this service, not least of which is that it’s free. And once Google has reported back the results…
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How To Write The Simplest Business Plan In 5 Steps
Have you ever produced a business plan? There are plenty of cookie cutter templates out there. But then again, if the production of a business plan meant success, why wouldn’t we all be spending days agonising over one? It’s because business changes every day. Forecasts (which are effectively what business plans are) are rarely right.…