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Get 10% off web hosting plans!
Looking for affordable and reliable web hosting plans? Why not have a look at Tsohost.com? I've been with this excellent company for many years now, and have the eCommerce Hosting Plan at ÂŁ18.02 +VAT per month, but that's because I host other people's websites! I need...
Kick Ass in 2017 with an Awesome Marketing Planner
I have been waiting WEEKS to write this blog post…and today, TODAY (she said giddily) my super Awesome Marketing Planner from Claire Mitchell at The Girls Mean Business arrived! I think I gave the postman a bit of a shock, whipping the front door open and demanding, “You’d better have a parcel for me!”
How To Set Up A Mailchimp Account!
This is my first guest blog for a great initiative called “Engaging Worklife” by California-based Monterey Premier, headed up by the super talented Geno Quiroz. This quick and easy “How To Set Up A Mailchimp Account” tutorial will have your e-marketing up and running before you can say “Have a banana!”
How to find perfect clients, filter the PITA & be happy as Stanley!
After 6.5 years in business, you would expect me to have gleaned a few nuggets of how to find perfect clients, and how to recognise who could be a PITA (Pain In The Ass) one! I want you all to be as happy as my little office assistant Stanley Stafford and flash your gnashers because you have SUPER PERFECT CLIENTS, yay! This week, my PITA antenna pinged loudly…
Managing your home office move like a pro
This morning, scrolling through my Twitter feed, I came across a tweet that had an air of mild hysteria attached to it… “If you have emailed us over the past few days, please bear with. Moving house today! Hoping to have broadband up & running later this week”. What do you make of that tweet? Definitely an interesting attitude to customer service! Here are my thoughts on managing your home office move like a pro.
Create a custom 404 error page
Don’t lose your website visitors when they land on a 404 error page. We’ve all been there at some point: clicked on a link to take us to our chosen content, and “Whoops! There go my bloomers!” – you are on a 404 error page – content not found. Gah!
When you’re NOT getting the Friday Feeling!
Woohoo! It’s Friday – are you feeling it, or not?
This week’s blog post is all about making sure you are getting the Friday Feeling!
How to rock your Mailchimp merge tags
How to rock your Mailchimp merge tags!
How many of you have signed up to newsletters only to receive an email addressed “Dear No Name” when it lands in your Inbox?
5 Top Tips for WordPress Website Security
5 Top Tips for WordPress Website Security
Would you like to know how to make your WordPress website security more effective?
Brilliant Business Cards!
Guest blog by tent marketing on brilliant business cards
A business card can often be the first marketing tool that our prospects are given. Here’s a great guest blog on how to make brilliant business cards!
Why professional headshots are a business essential
Why professional headshots are a business essential…
Do you use professional headshots across your social media channels or is it a low quality “selfie” taken with your phone/webcam?
Ready to create an invincible business?
Whoosh! Well that's January out the window... January is a funny old month: full of fresh starts, business goals and not forgetting of course, New Year resolutions of one form or another, usually abandoned by the 3rd week! So, how did you do last month? Is everything...
Catherine Poole testimonial
A lovely testimonial from Catherine Poole about working with Super Secretary on her new WordPress website project... "I was struggling for AGES with a website that was fine, BUT I couldn’t easily update, and a blog which was completely separate. I had heard good...
Important news: VATMOSS
Thanks a million Vince Cable. Not! From 1st January 2015, brand new changes to VAT rules mean that many UK small businesses will stop supplying online/digital products to the EU. This will include me. I will not be able to provide Virtual Assistant or WordPress...
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Love snow? Well thank the little WordPress elves working tirelessly in their workshop - you can have snow on your Blog page until 4th January! Huzzah! Want to know how? Of course you do... Dead simple: go to your "Settings" page and scroll to the bottom. Simply check...
