Top Five Ways To Keep Your New Years Resolutions.

We’ve been through Christmas, with more food than we’d need for a week, and we’ve drunk our bodyweights in alcohol during New Year’s. Now is the time that a lot of people take a few moments to take stock of their lives, and make resolutions to improve their health and lives, whether it’s quitting smoking, cutting down on alcohol, getting fit, or fitting into that old dress. However, only 35% are able to keep any of our resolutions. So, we’ll look at ways that we can stick with them, meaning that we can at the very least stop making the same ones every year, followed by saying “and this time, I mean it”.

1. Be Realistic. If you want to go from couch potato to marathon runner in 6 months, then you’ll never succeed. The biggest problem is motivation, and if you set unrealistic targets, then you’re going to be disheartened when it doesn’t go at the rate you want. If you want to get fit, then why not speak to a fitness trainer to set a programme that will work for you. You might not turn into the Hulk overnight, but you’ll at least stay motivated to get fitter.

Top Five Ways Businesses Can Use Social Media.

Over the last five or so years, the massive force that Social Media, namely groups of people organising themselves through websites, has demonstrated has been immense. Protests have been organised through such sites as Twitter, Facebook has allowed individuals to reach out to people that would otherwise have been beyond their grasp, YouTube has allowed everyone from families to politicians to put their opinions online. Indeed, whole careers have been made from such sites. In this blog, we explore how you can use this force to help drive your business:

Top Six Business Negotiation Tips!

You’ll have to do it! Not many people truly enjoy negotiations, but they have to be done at some point if you are running a business. We all know this, but unfortunately there isn’t any realistic way to learn how to do it, save trying over and over until you master it. Unfortunately for many small business owners, they don’t have the luxury of getting it wrong a lot in order to figure it out. So, I’ve compiled a list of the top five tips to get you grounded!

1) The Right Frame Of Mind Is Key! Before you go in to talk to a prospective/current client, a creditor, a supplier or anyone else, you need to be fully engaged in what you are doing. If you have any other worries playing on your mind, you’re not going to be engaged in what you are doing. Leave any problems at the door and focus solely on what you are doing and what you are after.

Top Five Ways To Get Everyone To Hate You On Twitter!

Since 2006, Twitter has been a tool for many to keep up to date with friends, family, celebrities and companies. Low Cost PR has a twitter account, Ultimediahas one, and I have a personal one as well. It’s a great way for us to keep up to date with both clients and industry figures.

However, some people seem absolutely determined to make enemies on Twitter, consciously or otherwise, or at least seem to possess many of the tweeting habits that really winds people up. Now, let’s assume that they have a master-plan for a minute, and you want to get in on it. Let’s look at the top five things you need to do to really get people to hate you on Twitter: