5 Steps Toward Professional Copywriting

1. Consciously Construct Your Sentences It’s amazing how much web copywriting is composed with no consideration for sentence construction.  Click here to see what happens when you get it wrong.  Sentences will end mid-thought.  Unless you are a professional writer, and therefore know how to break the rules, stick to these simple principles: In the simplest of sentence constructions...

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Social Media Association for Business

The Social Media Association for Business is the place to be, for all those interested in learning, discussing, questioning and answering everything around the topic of the moment. The next meeting will be held at the University of Ulster, Belfast on 25 January from 18:00 to 20:00. The organiser, Martin Gilchrist says: We are delighted to announce that for our first meeting of 2011 which will...

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5 Ways Introverts Can Excel at Networking

My name is Dawn Baird, and I’m an introvert.  I would even say, an extreme introvert.  Where did this first manifest itself?  School – that place of daily torture for those who aren’t sporty, arty, academic, amusing or loud.  What unthinking labels did people condemn me with? Shy.  Stand-offish.  Quiet. It took well into my twenties to stop punishing myself with their words. ...

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Business Events in Northern Ireland

“How do you keep up to date with things?”, someone asked on Facebook this week. Here is how I keep up to date with business events at least… SYNC NI Technology, Science and Innovation events in Northern Ireland.  Email them and they will supply a login so you can add your own. NI Business Info This is the main page, with all events displayed (174 at time of writing)....

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