When I was 14, in 1986, I loved Life's What You Make It by Talk Talk. So it's sad to hear of the death today of Mark Hollis, the band's co-founder, lead singer and principal songwriter. "Life's what you make it." "The more you put in, the more you get out." "You make...

Two ways that community policing has changed in recent years: Email: I get crime updates from Hertfordshire Constabulary and even though they sound like they're copied and pasted straight out of the investigating officer's notebook, I think they're a great idea. And...

Kids need to understand their financial world and have three places where they can learn about it: at home, at school and online. Sadly, it seems that financial education in UK schools is absent. As well as how to make money, kids should be shown how they can save...

It took me a few years as I was gathering knowledge about internet marketing to realise that I probably knew more than I realised and more than I needed to start to get clients. In the end, it was a podcast that I was listening to that forced me to appreciate my...

Running in my local area, and hopping around the internet, it's not long until I see superfluous language: Companies who install windows or alarms with 'Systems' in their name (someone looking through a window doesn't involve a system, just eyes, a pane of glass and...

Creativity, as I've written before, is our greatest differentiator. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe our greatest differentiator is authenticity. Being true to yourself. In Simon Sinek's book, Start With Why, he says: People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it. That...

The book. My next book. Always on my mind. Trouble is, it's not writing itself. Given that making money from writing books is very hard, I've not beaten that idea into submission but I have opted for an alternative goal: to make it as useful as possible, regardless of...

With more than 1.9 billion logged-in users visiting YouTube each month, and 2.32 billion monthly active users on Facebook, there’s room for a million agendas and a veritable smorgasbord of information that’s either worthy of our trust or utter nonsense. YouTube, it’s...

I've already written about Brian Dean, who's well worth a listen if you want really in-depth and up-to-date knowledge of SEO, the practice of trying to improve a webpage’s ranking in the search engines. And I've also explained what content marketing is. After...

By the end of my time working in TV transmission, I was a very tired boy. Definitely not tired of the great friends I'd made during the 16 years I was in the job at various places in and around London, but absolutely knackered from the night shifts, doing work that no...