This blog is dead, deceased, gone to the great wordsmith in the sky. It is no more...
I'm now blogging here.
The description of the blog's aims seems insufferably pompous in 2012:
"An account of running an award-winning small business by the founder (& best selling business book author). She claims 20 years experience in business "characterised by low boredom/high fun thresholds".
Oh dear! What was I thinking of? But at least it was in response to market forces - I was told that no-one was blogging about running a small business and I checked and thought they were right.
It started OK. There were 10 posts in two months - I did say that I would post once a week. Then nothing until 2008: two years later!
I remember making a concious decision not to commit to any particular posting frequency with my main blog, so I obviously learned that lesson. It's just not possible for one person in a very small business to post like clockwork when it's not a direct money-spinner. And I don't want to outsource it and lose 'my' voice. Did you know that everyone uses words differently? Our word patters are as distinctive as a fingerprint, reflecting the wonderful uniqueness of us all.
With 20:20 hindsight, this blog's stated ambitions just didn't live up to the blog's name: I know that would have started to niggle me badly. And the posts were not exactly on topic half the time.
But I did find a lot of useful stuff to pass on and that's my main strength now: turning the self-directed training, exploring and trialling that takes up about a third of my working life into stuff I can use and share. And now I have a whole new product I am piloting based on passing on what work: my Publicity Clubs - all on top of the day job running the PHPR.
RIP little fledgling blog, and thank you for all you taught me.
