The last of my scheduled blog posts went out yesterday. Now I'm back from our Spanish holiday and back to writing and publishing daily, with a stack of topics lined up for future posts. We met a great family from Stoke-on-Trent while we were away, who proved a real...

George Lucas said something that my brother told me: Lucas said that you can have something done fast, cheaply or that's high quality, but you can't have all three. In other words, you can have something quickly and cheap but it won't be the best. Or you can have...

Selling wine with tech is huge. Gary Vaynerchuk's the first name that springs to mind here, having taken his family business, a local wine retailer, from $3 million a year to $50 in seven years using social media, primarily YouTube, where he started WineLibraryTV. Now...

I've finally had enough and want to restore an old, more efficient version.Gmail. With its humongous,animated logo dropping on to my screen and bouncing, literally, with Californian enthusiasm every time I want to reply to a few emails on my laptop that...

In the 17 months since launching video features, LinkedIn has enjoyed a boost in traffic and revenues. Live video - already prominent on YouTube (obviously), Facebook and Twitter - has been a "big request" for the LinkedIn big cheese so they've launched LinkedIn Live,...

Ever heard of Amazon Smile? No, I hadn't until recently. Buy things at smile.amazon.co.uk instead of just amazon.co.uk and Amazon donates part of the purchase price to your favourite charity, as long as it's registered with the Charity Commission of either England and...

"A new pingback is waiting for your approval" - the message I got in two emails and when I logged in to the backend of this site. A new pingback. What's a pingback? I'd always put off Googling the word every time it'd come up in the past but now's the time, I thought....

I was recently prepping one of the Pazzardous Material emails that I send out on a Thursday and wrote "pp.com" a couple of times. I'd better just check, I thought, that pp.com doesn't actually exist and lead to some dodgy site involving goats, so I typed the domain...

We all need help from time to time, especially when we're starting out in a career. And we all get at least one big chance, sooner or later - we just have to be aware enough to recognise it and brave enough to take it. The big chance can take a while to materialise...

Starting out as a freelance copywriter, should you specialise in a particular subject or be a generalist, a jack of all trades? You might identify where your talent as a writer or editor lies by doing a SWOT analysis. Also, bear in mind that there are lots of...