I was reflecting over the weekend on how important it is, as an entrepreneur, to have faith.

No! not that kind of faith, I’m definitely not religious, but I’m talking about the faith an entrepreneur must have, in the beginning of your business journey, the faith that it’s going to work.

That any of it is going to work, or even all of it.

Why would anyone start a business if they didn’t believe it would work?

What makes an entrepreneur...

I’ve been business blogging since 1998, of course it wasn’t called blogging then. I was writing a text only ezine for NicolaCairncross.com (wealth coach), which then became The Money Gym, which in the early days went out to about 25 people – friends and family who had email addresses. They passed it on and it grew.

Once written, I would then archive it on a page on my website. You could find it by clicking the ezine link, then the archive link, then the year, then the date...

After I wrote my Business Blog diary post yesterday I was left feeling a little bit unsatisfied with myself.

Sure, adding new original content each week to a business blog, which is always going to be naturally full of key phrases, is always good for the search engines, but a Business Blog Diary style post in and of itself is not targeting specific phrases so I don’t really write them for the search engines. I write them for my readers (or so I thought….) and they do often get...

I wanted to share with you the Top 10 Digital Marketing “gurus” who have inspired me on my online business journey so far and I’ve tried to tell you about them in chronological order – how I found them (or in Guy’s case, how they found me!)

(Some of them you will have heard of and some you won't)


** Robert G Allen - I became aware of the potential for making money online around 1998 / 1999, about five years after I bought my first domain name. I...

I was talking to Judith the other day about wanting to share a stage with the “big dogs” of internet marketing and she asked me why I had such a huge burning desire to do that. I hadn’t really stopped to think about it much, but I know there is a real lack of female internet marketers, although there are no shortage of successful female entrepreneurs and executives in the marketing and direct marketing world. And everyone says they want more women on stage to encourage other women to get...