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Five tips for successful networking groups

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” Eleanor Roosevelt   People, events, traditions  – everything comes and goes at some point, very few things remain unchanged over time. The…
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Procrastination: Practical Tips to Combat

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams In our previous blog, ‘Procrastination – What type are you?’, we identified four different types of procrastinators - the anxious, fun, perfectionist,…
Case Studies presentation
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XR networking: Case Study presentation - 5 top tips

Here's a Powerpoint presentation I gave to my Cross Reference (XR) networking group on Friday 4th September: Nobleword_CrossRef_Aug20CaseStudies[21473]
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5 easy Zoom shortcuts to Conference Call like a Pro

Hands up who'd ever used video conferencing pre-Covid? [Most of us, I'd assume...] Hands up who'd used it more than once a week [Probably a lot less of us ...] Hands up who'd used it on a daily basis [Very few of us..?] So, for…
Spring Clean declutter
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BLT 11-Apr: Spring Cleaning - is it time to put your business before your home?

"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." - William Morris There are various theories regarding the origin of Spring Cleaning, most of them religious; e.g. for Catholics, the church…
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What can ants teach us about business?

How about a little background on ants first, to set the scene? Ants aren't actually very clever - on average, they have only 250,000 brain cells, compared to over 100 billion in the human brain; hence, we are over 1 million times cleverer...least…
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BLT - How do you stimulate and channel your creativity?

DEFINITION: "Creativity - the use of imagination or original ideas to create something."Oxford English Dictionary I've been 'creatively' putting off writing up this last BLT session for a fortnight now, so it's time to put some of the suggestions…
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BLT meeting: 2019 goals and the 'Why' chromosome

Yes, it's that time of year. Putting 2018 firmly behind us and focusing on the new challenges for the year ahead...2019 goal setting! This was the topic up for discussion at this week's BLT meeting, and having started off 'traditionally' with our SMART goals, we ended up veering off at rather an unusual angle...swapping chromosomes!
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New Year Resolutions: 7 Quick Tips to improve your online relationship...with your website

At today’s CrossReference networking meeting, Paul Fogg of Kehorne ("Creators of clever website solutions that connect, simplify and engage") outlined the 7 New Year Resolutions that you should make to get on better with your website. 1.…