Month: July 2016

Many people in business believe that appearance is essential. How you look and how you dress dictates how you’re received by others. While, in many ways, this is true you should be very wary of judging others based on their appearance, as you could end up dismissing someone who could be very valuable to you […]

With more businesses offering work to freelance writers over the internet, there are more opportunities to write for a living than ever. This has, obviously, made working as a freelance writer very popular and those looking for work need to differentiate themselves from their competition in order to win, and keep, the best writing contracts. […]

You may have heard a lot of people talking about ‘blogging’ over the last few years, and about how it’s important for businesses to succeed online, but just how important is it? Why does it work? What can you really get by blogging for your business website? Perhaps you’re one of those people who is […]

We’re giving away £10 in Marks and Spencer vouchers to one lucky winner in our first social media competition. There are two ways you can enter, on Facebook or on Twitter. You can, of course, enter on both for double the chance of winning. After the closing date on July 31st we’ll randomly draw a […]

Here at the Online Learning Academy, we’re always sharing great tips on working for yourself, setting up your own business and marketing it. One of our favourite tools for doing this is Twitter, and we even have a diploma course on the microblogging site so you can become a master of it yourself. On our […]