Fuelled by Coffee

This month I’ve been immersed in conferences. I didn’t mean it to be that way, but three opportunities came up – and guess what! They were all in the same seven-day time frame. I live in rural South Australia and it’s a two-hour drive to Adelaide, where two of the conferences were being staged – the other was in the Barossa, slightly closer to home. I’d always dreamt of being able to afford a unit in the city which would allow us to stay over if we wanted to attend concerts or other events. Lucky for us we have a daughter living in an outer suburb and a son in the Barossa, so we can zip into the city, stay over and take advantage of their location. So glad we have a wonderful family, who is happy for me to drop in, sleep and leave! Knowing I had accommodation sorted made the decision to attend these learning events easier. I just had to organise my business schedule and make sure my clients were still covered while I was off learning things. The three conference...

I LOVE MY WEBSITE I am besotted with my new website. I am not a web designer or builder, but can cobble together an adequate website on a number of different platforms. I know my way around the templates and plugins of Wordpress and have completed some courses, although I have very limited html knowledge. My business website was created for me by a business mentor in 2014 on Google sites and was as basic as it could be – but even then I had challenges making it look anything but ordinary. It’s been on my list for a while to upgrade it and take it elsewhere and I had my thoughts on Wordpress. The site had been sadly neglected and did not really reflect my business direction or offerings, but I couldn’t get motivated to do anything about it. So, wordsolutions.com.au languished. My original website had a lot of flaws. It didn't really represent who I am now in business and had some security issues. I've had it on my list to update and move it to Wordpress o...