by Sam Dounis | Mar 26, 2018 | About Sam, Blogging, Kimber, Seamus the Sheep, Stories, Thoughts and Musings, Writing
One of the joys of running your own business is that you get to call the shots when it comes to how it’s run. I say ‘joy’, but actually, at the beginning, especially if you’ve been institutionalised in a large corporate organisation, it can be...
by Sam Dounis | Mar 19, 2018 | About Sam, Blogging, Edinburgh, Stories, Thoughts and Musings, Writing
During Snowmageddon a few weeks ago, I massively misjudged my fellow human’s capacity for panic-buying. As a result, I ran perilously close to running out of milk for my porridge, the husband almost had to drink short blacks instead of lattes, and the veg for...
by Sam Dounis | Mar 13, 2018 | About Sam, Blogging, Stories, Thoughts and Musings, Writing
Any sales course worth its salt will feature a section on buyer behaviour. Research shows that when people are buying something that costs more than a few pounds, they need a number of good reasons to do so. Reasons that resonate with them and move them closer to...
by Sam Dounis | Mar 6, 2018 | About Sam, Blogging, Edinburgh, Stories, Thoughts and Musings, Writing
When I’m writing a blog post, I like to take my time, sit down at my desk, scribble a few ideas in my notepad, choose one and draft it out. Maybe I’ll have been for a walk in the sunlit countryside to get some inspiration. Once I’ve drafted the post,...
by Sam Dounis | Mar 5, 2018 | About Sam, Blogging, Stories, Thoughts and Musings, Writing
Blogging is as hard or as easy as you want to make it. It’s easy because all a blog post really consists of is a story, and we tell stories all the time. But we can choose to make it hard for ourselves by judging the story – is it good enough, or right...
