Businesses all over the place are launching their own podcasts, and with very good reason: a podcast for your business can help to drive brand awareness, build authority in your niche, connect with your audience on a new and more personal level, reach new customers and grow your business. …

As the world moves tentatively out of lockdown and sees restrictions being eased in the COVID19 era, we’re all learning to adapt to the “new normal”. Whilst large-scale mass gatherings still (at the time of writing, at least) seem a long way off, many events organisers are looking for ways to replicate the experience of attending a real-life event — as best they can — online. This is particularly true of churches, which were among the first allowed to hold gatherings again — albeit in a very different format and with very restricted numbers and practices.

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One of the reasons that WhatsApp has been so successful and that it grew so quickly (leading to it being bought by Facebook for US$19 billion in 2014) is that it’s so incredibly easy to setup. I myself was amazed and impressed at how frictionless they’d made the process, when I finally gave in to the badgering from all my friends and first downloaded the app. No signup process — or at least none worth speaking of. No forms to fill in, no email address or username and password… just your phone number, wait for a code to be received…

On Tuesday, 14th January 2020 Microsoft finally unplugged the life support and killed off Windows 7. A welcome breath of fresh air in its time, fixing the problems of the Vista era and continuing the seemingly coincidental cycle of “crap version, great version, crap version” when it came to Windows releases in the pre-Windows 10 era, it served both personal and business users well — not even blinking when Windows 8 came along and tried (unsuccessfully) to steal the crown.

However, times have changed and 10 years is a very long time in the world of technology — don’t forget…

These days, it’s common practice to design, develop and build a new website ‘live’; that is, to build it in-place on the web server on which it will be hosted and call its home after launch. This makes sense for a number of reasons as you can properly set up and test everything before launch, and it also saves reinventing the wheel when you do want to launch, as it’s already in place to start with. It’s a bit like building a house on the plot of land it’ll stay on.

This is all well and good when it’s a…

Tips to keep your small or freelancer business running smoothly whilst you’re on holiday!

This is part 2 of a 2-part mini series around the subject of taking time off and achieving the perfect balance between work and family life.

If you’re a freelancer or you run your own business, it can sometimes feel like there’s never a good time to go on holiday and/or you can’t afford to. Think about this though: how productive and successful will you be if you’re always stressed and burnt out? Think about how time completely away from it all can really benefit your business (as well as you).

So with that in mind, how do you go…

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How to get WiFi in garden office? Extending WiFi to outbuildings can be really useful and it means you can work in your garden over WiFi as well as…

This is part 1 of a 2-part mini series around the subject of taking time off and achieving the perfect balance between work and family life.

It can be really challenging to keep your business running during the school holidays with the sudden addition of lots of extra childcare to account for thrown into the mix. This is especially true if you’re a freelancer and even more so if you work from home! …