“Do I need you to exist?” asked the man on the street.
I was in a hurry, on my way to a coaching session for my ‘personal development’, and tempted to pretend I hadn’t heard.
But the incongruity of ignoring a plea for personal interaction in my quest for personal development would not allow me to do so.
I stopped.
Continue reading “How To Connect: Advice From The Pirates of Compassion”
Do you ever daydream about the benefits of flexible working? I certainly did and often. With previous employers, I was too scared to formally apply for a flexible hours contract, as it was not the done thing in the corporate culture I found myself in and I learnt from former colleagues the only way to achieve flexible work hours was to go it alone and become self-employed. I wanted to pursue postgraduate study and volunteering to nourish my soon-to-be burnt out spirit and going freelance seemed like my only option. Before taking my role at We Are All Connected, I had been actively looking for professional part-time roles for some time and often faced a “computer says no” response from recruiters and hiring managers alike, learning that flexible contracts were like trying to find hen’s teeth.
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There are many reasons why you might choose to move a website; perhaps you are rebranding, having a website redesign, switching to HTTPS, or even expanding to serve an international audience. Traditionally, moving a website is something that SEOs can be quite nervous about, as a site move has the potential to seriously affect rankings, traffic, conversions, and in turn revenue.
However, SEO site migration issues can be minimised if you prepare a thorough website migration project plan and carefully follow a site migration checklist and guide such as the one we have set out for you here.
Jump straight to our site migration SEO checklist or read on for a more detailed explanation of each part of the process.
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In the not so distant past, the media as an industry served to create content. Magazines and newspapers, tv shows and trade journals, were created independently and with little to no consideration for the advertising that would run alongside the content. Advertising existed as a separate entity, sold off to companies to exist within or alongside the content that had been created, and mostly thought of as a way to pay the bills. This old media standard has greatly waned in popularity due to the fact that is just isn’t easy to make money with a pure advertising model anymore. So where does that leave us?
Continue reading “An Introduction To How SEO And Content Marketing Work Together”
Over the years, the ability to multitask has become a point of pride for many, and is commonly seen as a necessary skill for any professional position-if not the very backbone of a productive worker bee. Answering an email while reading a text and talking on the phone (with the tv on in the background and while cooking a fabulous meal) is a slightly preposterous, but easily imagined scenario. Conversely, recent research points out the flaws in multitasking. Continue reading “Is Multitasking Really A Good Thing?”
A huge part of what we do at We Are All Connected involves content strategy. And for us, a huge part of any digital content strategy has to be a good quality blog. As our name suggests we’re all about connectivity and there are few better ways for brands to connect with their marketplace than by blogging. Continue reading “5 Conscious Businesses With Superb Content Marketing Strategies”
We don’t have a sales department here at We Are All Connected. We don’t have a marketing department. None of us have marketing degrees or sales qualifications. Yet, one thing we spend a lot of time doing is helping companies build marketing and communications teams. Continue reading “Why You Should Build Your Own In-House Marcomms Team”
The current business paradigm isn’t about digital – it’s about connection. Continue reading “Getting Ahead In The Connection Economy”
Ethical Communication online is vital for your business success and emotional wellbeing. How do you keep boundaries during an over-sharing pandemic? Continue reading “Ethical Communication: How To Keep Boundaries Online”
We’re all guilty of bad habits. But when it comes to your copywriting, getting lazy will lose you money, motivation and readers. Continue reading “Bad Habits, Bad Writing, Bad Business”
