There's a lot to be said for working on your business as well as in your business. That can involve a few things, including: Setting goals and planning how to achieve them Working out a strategy to accomplish a particular task or complete a project Establishing...

One of the biggest differences I've found between working as an employee and working as a self-employed freelancer concerns the time required to earn a living: there's likely to be a thin, blurred line between time spent at work and time spent away from work when...

If freelancing isn't for you and you'd rather find a good job, there could be a problem. When it comes to job hunting, most people do the same things as everyone else… …which don’t help you stand out from the crowd or show potential bosses that you’re positively...

In Mr Lizard, my book for young teens, I wrote about creative expression as a means to alleviate personal tension. Kids need encouragement to practise creative expression and then, eventually, they might be able to make a living by continuing to do it. Here's an...

Another topic that we need education on: smartphone apps (particularly Android) that abuse our phone and privacy. Here's a recent example: Vidmate: A Chinese Android app with hundreds of millions of downloads Enables users to download videos from YouTube, WhatsApp and...

Everything a company does, or an individual freelancer for that matter, is marketing, so it's worth aiming for professionalism and awareness even with (especially with) the small things. It includes: The aggressive way the plumber drives his van The lazy way the...

I've just read a Facebook post written by a friend: People making jokes about Jamie's Italian going into administration need to remember the chain employed a lot of people many who now live with uncertainty about what the future holds. Social media seriously brings...

The ability to follow instructions is crucial, and something that schools have always been very good at teaching, given that they were invented to teach compliance having originally trained people who'd moved from the farm to the factory. Occasionally I struggle with...

Sometimes I have images I want to use in a post on this blog or a client's but the files don't upload. Experience has taught me that it's probably because the files are too big and I need to reduce their size and the dimensions of the pics themselves. I recommend...

  I realised recently that I don’t have many photos of my dad, and none at all of me and him together. But I do have the video for Sky Starts Falling by Doves, which he’s in: >>>Playlist<<<