When your business expands, you may consider moving from Wix to WordPress. WordPress is bigger in many aspects and provides a wider choice of installable plugins that definitely will make your business soar. The following article will show you how this is possible and provide a step-by-step process on how to transfer your site from … Read more
You can subscribe to new content on this site by using a variety of available feeds. Feedreaders should be able to discover the main feed and responses feed on their own. But there are more feeds available than just those two. This is a WordPress site, so almost everything also has its own RSS feed. … Read more
A friend recently asked if I knew of any upcoming London tech events, so I sent them back a list of the sites I use to keep updated with the latest Tech, Startup and Hack Day events in London. Some of these events listings are for membership-based organisations, such as TechHub and Campus London. Please … Read more
I love being productive and the feeling that comes from getting the right work done at the right time. A recent productivity hack I’ve been following is to save all reading – including articles, newsletter and books – to outside of work hours, when I have downtime and can concentrate on the material. There have … Read more
I’ve written about my reading habits before, using apps like Tweetbot and Pocket as a system for saving interesting content to read later. So when the Cronycle team got in touch to offer me a test drive of their beta product, I was interested enough to take a look and see if it could be … Read more
I have been blogging at Pudding Relations for 2 1/2 years ago – not a bad run at all. But the irregularity of blog posts appearing there made me think that what I was writing about didn’t interest me as much as it used to. A change of direction was needed. After a conversation one … Read more
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Freelance in 30 Days is the first book I’ve written. It’s self-published and I wrote and published the 200-page book in around 100 days, starting late August and finishing in early December.
Along the way I’ve learnt a lot about the self-publishing process and gathered lots of information about how to make it work for you.
Here’s my experience on what worked and what didn’t go so well in the self-publishing journey.
Register a domain name Try to get a .com if possible. Try 123 Reg for available domain names. Get Matching Social Media Usernames Also make sure the Twitter username and the Facebook page username of the same name are both free. Buy Hosting Once you’ve bought a domain, you’ll need hosting for the site. … Read more
Do you want the freedom and flexibility that comes from being your own boss? Do you want to be a creative and productive freelancer? Do you want to build the confidence to finally go freelance? How To Go Freelance is the book to give you the confidence to go freelance – and freelance successfully. In … Read more