No matter what job you do it always helps to know a bit about project management. Even if you never plan to be a proper project manager we all need some PM skills from time to time to help us with our daily jobs. Whether you are a sales person who has attended all the latest sales training courses to improve your selling skills, an entrepreneur starting up a business, or just a blogger, work will go more smoothly if you have some basic project management knowledge. You don’t need any fancy tools – just a spreadsheet will do.

The most imprtant bit of advice is to manage the expectations of your customers and clients. You don’t need to attend project management training courses if you are only using project management to streamline your work in another role. But something you can learn from basic project management principles is to manage the expectations of those around you. Don’t promise something you can’t deliver and if something goes wrong make sure you tell people before it becomes an unmanageable problem.

No matter what job you do it always helps to know a bit about project management. Even if you never plan to be a proper project manager we all need some PM skills, including if you work in a business such as an SEO consultancy, from time to time to help us with our daily jobs or home projects. Even starting up a business (or just a blog!) will go more smoothly if you have […]

So you’ve set up your blog and starting to fill it with fun, engaging content. If you’re anything like me you love writing – giving people your advice about business including technical SEO, or just telling them a bit about your life (or even a lot about your life!). But even though it is fun just blogging you now want to take it to the next stage and make money from your blog. Making money […]

More and more people want to work from home as they tire of long commutes and office politics, and find they have the means to work effectively from home with a PC and fast broadband connection. But not all companies are as accommodating as they might be in letting employees work from home so increasing numbers of people are going it alone. And it’s not just those who have become jaded by many years on […]

Project managers always have an eye on the budget, or they should do anyway. Their task, much like any service provider such as an SEO health check provider, is to help their client. In this case by turning their invested capital into a highly effective, deliverable orientated project, packed with as much added value as they can muster. Wantonly going over budget without a care for the consequences is simply not on the radar of […]

It is not an easy job to market a new blog. If you want to grab the attention of the readers, then your blog must be interesting and unique. There are various online tools that you can use to promote your blogs the fast and easy way but you can also learn from successful sales professionals when it comes to targeting the right people. The best sales people only go after the sales they are […]

The answer is more complicated than you may think. By the best we mean the directory that will quickly provide us with a complete picture for the unknown number. There are plenty of reasons why we might want to do this, for instance, we may run a small business and want to know if the caller was a potential customer. We may run a small blog and be always on the look out for opportunities […]

I think there is no one in the world of the Internet, or even in the world, that does not know about YouTube, so I’ll not talk much about it. We should forward directly to the major subject of this post – read the best YouTube marketing tips from those who are maintaining the most successful channels. You may be a new blogger looking for ways to make a living from your blog, general money […]

Do you think I’m insane because CSS3 has nothing to do with SEO? Well, let me prove you wrong. If I fail, I’ll buy you a bottle of beer if we meet someday. Lots of innovations that came with CSS3 directly influenced SEO (specifically technical on-page SEO) because they made a whole lot of things more search engine friendly. What’s more, CSS3 made it obvious that some technologies should not be used for creating sites […]