Mark Cann

As a business owner you love your business, you live and breath it and when people ask you what you do you have to hold yourself back from being so passionate about your product or service that you can’t ever remember a time when you talked to others about a product just to earn a [...]

I think it was Albert Einstein who said “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result”. After attending a networking event on Wednesday in London, one of the speakers Andy Lopata a networking expert. He told the story of how at a networking event for the football industry [...]

As my first business I don’t confess to be an expert. If you speak with any proclaimed business gurus who don’t tell you about any of their mistakes, they are either hiding them or haven’t actually been in business themselves outside of employment and should be treated with caution. I wanted to write this article [...]

After reading about a few entrepreneurs me and a few friends at University always asked ourselves the same question “how did they win clients?”. Since my University days I’ve had experience of the working world but that doesn’t make it any easier to find new clients as a new relatively unknown business. i thought I’d [...]

I wanted to write this blog post as I like to think I’m a bit of a hybrid. By that I mean I can handle different areas as a business owner. I think sales has been tarnished as a dirty word. I’m not one to dwell in single mindiness as I believe all of your [...]

Kirsty Mccubbin director of Blue Indian Media and all round affiliate superstar kindly agreed to an interview and share her thoughts on affiliate marketing, living the four hour work week and errr being scottish! (My questions or comments are in bold). How the devil do I know you Kirsty? Hahah, Through social media outlets? Oh [...]

I popped in my local cafe the other day and the guy whose running it started his business this year around the same time I started my business in April time. I asked him how it was doing and he didn’t have any complaints and said it was just ticking along nicely. This made me [...]

1) SEO yourself? if you Google your name what do you find at the moment? If you have no concept or understanding of SEO (Search engine optimisation) then a start would be to create a Google account and use Google reader to subscribe to feeds from from SEO blogs such as SEOmoz.org, and read Google’s [...]

Some say you should confront your fears and do one thing a day that scares you whether its chatting to a stranger, jumping out of an aeroplane or speaking in front of a big group of people. For me it was the latter…… How it all came about? I’m a big believer in networking which [...]

If you’re anything like me you’ll get your fair share of interruptions each day. My new rule for being more productive after focusing on one task was that I would take down a note of what is required to do and then do it after I had finished my task. “BUT I NEED IT DONE [...]