Business – Des Walsh: Recent Episodes
Des Walsh
I’m farewelling an old friend today and indulging in a little trip down blogging memory lane. Vale the blog Thinking Home Business. After various experiments, it was my first “real” blog, Born Jan 5, 2005. Disappearing just shy of its 16th birthday. Why the “Thinking” part of the blog name? Two reasons. First, even back … Farewell My Lovely Blog Thinking Home Business Read More »
With so many people now working from home, with the current pandemic crisis, many will not enjoy the situation, others will see it suiting them and may look for ways to create a way to work from home in the future.
In recent days I've been rediscovering the pleasure of actual, real life conversation.
The kind of one on one conversation you have with a friend over coffee or a meal, when you are catching up.
For many years I’ve kept my working or business life and my spiritual journey effectively separate. I don’t think I was unusual in this. In fact, I think it was and is the norm. Which did not make it good. With my new business there is no need anymore for that kind of separation.
Looking back, I feel that was an unfortunate, unhealthy discon
The platform I found to help me realise my dream of an online business that worked and would provide financial security and a dream laptop lifestyle and could be done with total integrity and in harmony with my values.
At my birthday party in June last year, I declared my intention to "press the Reset button". This was about being excited by the prospect of a new phase of life and business. In the months since I was to discover how that was to play out.
When I moved from working for government to being in business, I understood public service values and how important they are, but did not really focus on what business values I might want to subscribe to. I soon learned that business values are at least as important as public service values. Admittedly, from what we … Do Your Business Values Include Having Fun? Read More »
Rationale and Group Concept First, why am I doing this? My Linking Business Professionals group on LinkedIn (originally the 30 Day LinkedIn Blitz Group) has passed its use-by date. I am increasingly unimpressed by the user interface for LinkedIn Groups, and as LinkedIn seems to be on a path of completely hobbling group owners, … New Facebook Group for Real Conversation and Great Business Relationships Read More »
On a television breakfast show two days ago I watched with fascination a segment on recommended Christmas presents, which included a small “selfie” drone, a programmable robot, and VR headsets – all priced for the consumer market. More fascination today when another TV segment showed how virtual reality is being used to help children and adult … Merging Our Realities – The Fourth Transformation – Review Read More »
Power Shift Every now and again a book about technology innovation and business comes along that I’m eager to recommend to my coaching clients and business associates. But after a couple of such recommendations in recent years that fell flat, I’m more selective now. So I’m pleased to say that Shel Israel’s latest book Lethal Generosity: … Lethal Generosity and Why Millennials Matter to Your Business: Review Read More »
A Don’t Give Up Story My friend Becky McCray, from Alva, Oklahoma is a great advocate for small towns. Living and working in the relatively small town of Tweed Heads (pop. 7,525) I love reading Becky’s Small Biz Survival stories about how communities can challenge and beat the odds of demographic changes and the relentless push of … Small Town Business Success…Cooly Rocks On! Read More »
This post is a bit in the way of a “what I’m doing in my kitchen” story. I’m guessing it will be of interest mainly or only to people interested in the business of email newsletters, but I know people have lots of opinions about newsletters, both for the sending and the receiving, so I … Newsletter Subscribers Down, Open Rate Up Read More »
The experts tell us to offer a free gift so as to gather email addresses As a friend of mine reminds me frequently, “All the people who have been successful in marketing online have great email lists”. I get that. Or at least that anyone who has been successful in online marketing and don’t have … Does Offering a Free e-Book Help Build a Great List, or a Mediocre One? Read More »
Are you working with the real client, or with a stand-in? Drawing on my own experience and that of others of my acquaintance, I would go so far as to say that – in the professional services field – not knowing who the real client is could jeopardize your professional reputation and even your business, … Why knowing who your real client is could be crucial for your business Read More »
Email overload is no joke I understand email overload and if I were better organised I would probably unsubscribe from more lists than I actually do. Or maybe it’s that feeling of not wanting to risk missing out! But as I’m not opening a lot of those emails that’s not really a convincing reason for not … Email Frequency – How Many Emails is Too Many? Read More »
It’s normal to be annoyed but let’s not waste the gift It’s perfectly normal, isn’t it, to react defensively or in a generally negative way when we feel a customer is being difficult? By which we mean they are being unreasonable, insensitive, rude, or simply annoying. And even the most zealous advocate of superior customer … Why We Should be Grateful for Difficult Customers Read More »
It’s normal this time of the year to be thinking strategy. Which usually includes addressing a host of questions, the answers to which are not always immediately forthcoming. Such as: How can we improve on last year’s performance? Are we on the right track with our business? What is the competition doing? If we suddenly … Thinking Strategy, Think Blue Ocean Read More »
I’m grateful to blogger, professional speaker, web consultant and all-round entrepreneur Jim Kukral for sending me his new book Attention! or to give it its full title, Attention! This Book Will Make You Money: How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue. In the embedded video I talk about the book and some highlights for me.
Seth Godin’s Book Linchpin, asking the question “Are You Indispensable?” is a Challenging Read When offered the chance to have a new book for my birthday recently, I wavered between a work of fiction and Seth Godin’s Linchpin: my first thought was to indulge my love of literature and take the novel. I’m happy that … Linchpin and the End of the Résumé Read More »