Inspiration...

I recently read an article outlining the best ways to help grow your business. This included such inspired and  insightful tips as "advertise", "make your advertising interesting", "make sure you have some good reviews/testimonials" and "advertise (more)". As is my habit, I am exaggerating, but only slightly! But some interesting things did come out of this blog post. Namely, an expectation that people in my industry (that's IT by the way if you hadn't yet gathered) already have a blog that is followed by large numbers of people! As you can tell, with this being blog post 1 of 1, I did not!

I have always enjoyed writing, and even more, expressing my opinions, so it should be no shock that the idea of writing a blog has always appealed to me. My trouble is inspiration. Although I have lots of opinions, whenever I seem to come to start something like a blog, I don't really find I have anything to say. This is probably why my Twitter feed is limited to organising dinner with a friend when I am too lazy to write a full message on Facebook/email/text, and the occasional rant about a piece of technology I either desperately want but cannot afford or cannot work out how to fix.

However, inspiration came from the blog post I criticised so freely earlier, in another one of its suggested business growing techniques. Namely "Give 'how-to' lessons". So here, I thought, I may finally have found something to write about!

My plan, at present, is to start this little rambling on one hand, to get my technological frustrations off my chest (I am sure this will be the focus of post No. 2) as well as help with any IT questions any poor soul who stumbles upon my blog may have. Such as, how can I protect my computer from viruses for free? How can I clean my laptop without killing it with a cloth that is too damp? How can I make my photos smaller so it doesn't take longer than the duration of my actual holiday to upload the pictures to Facebook? Things like that. So if you have any IT questions, queries or opinions please comment, email, tweet, etc!

Things I find out or remember in my day to day support of businesses will also go up here and hopefully I will be able to help one person or another.

The fatal flaw in this plan at present is a lack of followership, with my current number at time of typing being 0. Now that I have got past obstacle one - not having a blog - I move to obstacle two - getting someone to read it! Wish me luck!