How you can help me

I help non-meanies with lots of queries about LinkedIn, personal branding and online visibility. If I’ve helped you and you wish to reciprocate, here’s how. These would be amazing. Join Espresso+ my membership community Buy an UpLift Live conference ticket Book a consultation Buy my LinkedIn course These would be pretty cool, too. Share my […]

Podcasting mistakes

This was prompted by a popular LinkedIn post on mistakes by podcasters and their guests. Introduction False promises Lack of research Boring questions Not listening Laughing at your own jokes Self promotion Misunderstanding the knowledge of the listener Not giving credit where it’s due Going off topic Poor show notes Too many ads No episode […]

Clubhouse intro

Guidance for Clubhouse newbies. Clubhouse is an audio-only social network. It’s currently in private beta and works on iPhone (and is compatible with iPad) on iOS 13 and above. As of May 2021, a rollout started for Android users. Right now, Android users can’t connect their Twitter and Instagram accounts to their Clubhouse bios. They […]

Lucky Lab Game

Lucky Lab Game was my secret viral marketing experiment that ran from February to March 2021. As part of my move to making all of my content experimental, I thought it would be interesting to try a little test with a secret game that wouldn’t be revealed to players until they agreed to take part […]

Clubhouse: tips for moderators

This post was inspired by Roy Kowarski and Michael Field‘s Clubhouse room called Ask The Audience: Moderator Crash Course for Beginners, which took place on 7 March 2021. Thanks also to Vanessa Marrama for her contributions. Looking for basic Clubhouse help? See my intro guide. Top tips for Clubhouse moderators. Modding isn’t easy for everyone! […]

Post Snippets WordPress plugin

How to make your WordPress website more consistent by reusing repeatable blocks of content. If there’s one thing that wastes our time more than anything else, it’s repeating ourselves when we write our content. Whether it’s looking up that list of links you wrote 5 blogs ago or including a set of social media buttons […]