How to Keep Your Readers on Your Blog Longer

Don’t you hate it when you spend hours writing a blog post only to see that people spend mere seconds skimming it? In an ideal world, you want people to spend hours on your blog, but sadly that won’t happen. What you can do instead is get people to come back more frequently and spend  [click to continue...]

My Challenge to You for 2015: Only Connect

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. ~ E.M. Forster, Howards End The thing, I think, that keeps people from building successful businesses, especially online, is that business seems complicated. And it is, in the sense

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January Sales Drive? - Think Twice Before You Pick Up The Phone

From a business perspective, the Christmas and New Year holiday season can be both frustrating and not a little worrying. Outside of the retail sector – which remains busy throughout - many businesses here in the UK can look forward to a marked slowdown in activity from mid-December onwards, culminating in a prolonged period of zero productivity, starting on Christmas eve (or earlier) and ending on the first full working week of January when customers and suppliers return from their holidays.

Reflections on Leadership

The end of the year always for me means a “summing up” and so I have been reflecting on what the idea of “leadership” is all about: political, social, business, cultural…

Knowing When Your Private Equity, Hedge Fund Is Really A Winner!

Determining when, precisely, a private equity or hedge fund has delivered a true profit, rather than simply benefiting from a rising market, is not a straight-forward matter.

The Best of Copyblogger: 2014 Edition

It’s that time of year again … The time of year when we wind down one year in anticipation of the next by taking a final look back at the best of the best content published here at Copyblogger during the last calendar year. It’s become an annual tradition. But first, I want to highlight

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Eurozone Chaos And Contagion Are Coming

Since Greece had to call for an early general election the yield acceleration has been confined to the Hellenic Republic. Unless France and Italy implement serious reform the spectre of contagion could appear once again.