Category: Resources

How Amazon Plans to Give Self-Publishers a Hand

How Amazon Plans to Give Self-Publishers a Hand

Amazon really wants to attract more independent authors to its publishing platform. It also wants to add competitive muster to its Kindle Store for e-books and the new Kindle e-book lending library. In a move designed to achieve both goals, the company today announced the launchof KDP Select, a program that gives Kindle Direct Publishing [...]

Two Thirds of People Won’t Buy from Companies with Poor Business Cards

Two Thirds of People Won’t Buy from Companies with Poor Business Cards

A new survey has revealed that buying cheap business cards is a false economy – because they actually put off potential customers. Self-printed business cards or flimsy ones from low cost, low quality online design companies would discourage two thirds of potential buyers, according to the survey by www.fideliltyprint.co.uk. Instead business owners should use smart [...]

Social Media Marketing Book

Social Media Marketing Book

Are you looking to take advantage of social media for your business or organization? With easy-to-understand introductions to blogging, forums, opinion and review sites, and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, this book will help you choose the best — and avoid the worst — of the social web’s unique marketing opportunities. The [...]

The Business Nomad is Coming Soon!

The Business Nomad is Coming Soon!

“Our world is being transformed by major convergent trends…that are reshaping the way we live, work and socialise. Fixed hours and fixed place working are disappearing” James Bellini, Futurologist Today business is changing. More of us are abandoning the daily commute to an office in favour of working from home, with the environmental, financial and [...]

Brush Up Your English

Brush Up Your English

100 Writing Mistakes to Avoid One of the fastest ways to improve your writing skills is to free yourself from the most common English mistakes: things like exchanging less with fewer, misspelling its, or placing commas where they are not supposed to be. Thinking about this, a couple of months ago I had an idea: [...]