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If, like many people, you harbour a dream to quit your fulltime job and set up your own business, or become a freelancer working the hours you choose to work, you’ll be faced with the same question as everyone else – when? When do you do it? When do you make the plunge and quit […]

Is how long you spend working directly related to how successful you’ll become, or how successful you are now? If you believe what you see on social media, you’d think that was, indeed, the case. I have seen a lot of posts of late talking about work ethics, and how long some people say they […]

Regular users of photo sharing app Instagram will already know how you go about connecting it to Facebook and Twitter so you can post your photos and share them out to the two largest social networking websites. For those who don’t know, we’ll show you how in just a moment. However, regular Instagram users may […]

LinkedIn is a great platform for finding and making contacts, and keeping in touch with what people are doing, where they’re working and how long they’ve been there. It does have a few limitations though – particularly its messaging system. Wouldn’t it be better if you could make more use of the contacts you’ve made […]

If you run a Twitter account and a Facebook Page for your business, it’s only natural that you’d want to connect the two so that posts from one go to the other, and vice versa. However, when you look for instructions on connecting your Twitter account to your Facebook Page, you’ll find lots of information […]

Whether or not you use it, Twitter is an excellent tool for promoting your business. You can seek out new clients and customers, keep up-to-date with what your competitors are doing, keep in touch with your existing clients and customers, and promote your services. One of the newer features of Twitter is the ability to […]

Who wouldn’t like to earn money from home? Who doesn’t think they could string a few sentences together? Who actually likes going out to work? Earning money on the internet from the comfort of your own home is a dream many people share, but few actually make a reality. It is, however, a very real […]

For many in the UK, it’s hard to imagine a time before the internet, even though it has only really been prevalent in homes since the mid-to-late ‘90s. Over the years, the way we have used the internet has changed drastically. Where once we would have ‘dialled up’ on our home computers using a modem, […]

On a recent trip to Australia, we visited the town of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory, to look at the original distance learning model known as School of the Air. In the UK we take it for granted being able to make it to school every day as children, or to send our own […]

Tomorrow, November 26th in Ellesmere Port, we’ll be running one of our classroom courses on LinkedIn. The course follows the same path as our online course, and will help attendees get a better understanding of LinkedIn and how to use it to make a success of their business. The course will offer step-by-step instructions and […]

Welcome to the Online Learning Academy’s blog! Here we will be writing about all sorts of things, from news and feature pieces, to information and tips related to our courses and our aims as a business. Our aim is to help businesses of all sizes, and particularly those with