My client is Fais Razzaq and he works in network marketing, providing people with hope, selling the wonderful Arbonne range and providing meal plans, fitness plans and much more.

You can read his story here. 

And if you're after a digital marketer to help you write blogs, manage social media or generally on a consultancy basis for marketing, give me a shout.

As a business owner, you don't get paid sick leave. You see business owners working round the clock, even on evenings and weekends and I sometimes wonder - when do they have time for friends, family, or even the odd duvet day for complete and utter me-time?

Do you take time off your business for no reason some times? After all, isn't that why many people love working for themselves? The flexibility it provides over the normal 9-5? 

I’m working full time and run my side line for digital marketing. I have clients who regularly request blogs, SEO work, copywriting, social media management and paid advertising help.
Sometimes though, with client work, client demands (above the agreement), looming deadlines, family commitments, ensuring you’re keeping your friends in your loop, finding me-time can be difficult – and this is when life can feel like it’s higgledy-piggledy.
Honestly, I can’t think of a better word for this feeling than higgledy-piggledy.
My work is booming. I’m so grateful for everything in my life and I feel immensely blessed. But regardless of this, I think I’m feeling a little higgledy-piggledy right now in fact. It’s a feeling I can’t wait to shake off and I know it will eventually go, but right now I’m in a bubble and I feel a little bizarre. Have you ever felt like this?
 
Tell me what you do to overcome this feeling?
 

Having a physical store restricts you to a single or just a few geographical locations which is not the same if you have an e-commerce website. For an e-commerce business, you need to have an online presence, get affordable logo design, responsive website and a profound social media presence to let your brand flow in the marketplaces. When you have an online presence, the customers can go through each of your products in details like for example read the ingredients, product specifications, usage and many other which is next to impossible in a brick and mortar business. In other words, an e-commerce store provides sufficient information about its products that help the customer in making the final buying decision.

Why Is E-Commerce Taking Over The Storm?
An e-commerce site has multiple advantages for businesses.

You Gain New Customers with Search Engine Visibility:
Physical stores require intensive branding and building relationships whereas an online store is driven by traffic. It is pretty common and easy for the customers to just a follow a link in the search engine and land on to an e-commerce site that they might not even hear of it before, which is rarely seen in physical retail stores.

Gives Detail About Your Product:
With an e-commerce store, you no longer have to wait in the queue or look for your desired product. You can just click on the product and get all the details that include with product specification to its availability. On an e-commerce website, customers can click through intuitive navigation or use a search box to immediately narrow down their product search.

Comparison Shopping:
With an e-commerce store, you get the ease of comparison shopping. You can browse multiple e-commerce stores and get a comparison of their prices and benefits with just a single click.

Offers, Deals, Coupons and Giveaways:
Deals and discounts are available on both, i.e., physical and online stores but what differentiates them is the feasibility to avail these discounts. For a physical store, a customer faces difficulty to avail all offers because the stores might not be located near to each other. However, a customer on an online store avails them all with just few mouse clicks.

Eliminates Travel Time and Cost:
It is not always easy for customers to go long distances to reach their chosen physical store. It incurs travel and time cost, but an e-commerce store lets them visit the store any time of the day with just a few clicks.

Group Your Audience:
Using the information that a customer provides in the registration form and by tracing the buying habits of a visitor, you can get all insights of what buyers like and show them the same products when they re-visit your site. With this, you can create a targeted audience for your product line and segregate the audience regarding their interests, likes and dislikes.
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24/7 Service:
An e-commerce website runs all the time which a physical store cannot. A customer is always delighted with an always open store. Buyers and sellers of niche products can find it difficult to locate each other in the physical market. Whereas in an online market, it is just the matter of a customer searching for a product in the search engine and you get it through by just a few clicks.
 
 
Loius Martin

I search Twitter for some answers to "Why does the gender pay gap still exist?" Here are some of your wonderful replies: 

Kate Haskell‏ @TheKateHaskell
Says: 
Perhaps it is because men can be better at knowing their worth & therefore getting a better deal? Women are just accepting or worried that if they try to negotiate they look pushy. A man driving a hard bargain is tough and in control, a women is a bitch!

Lau Ree@mandelmjolkIf I had a pound for everytime I was told I didn't need feminism I'd have 85p each time. @EverydaySexism
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Rach‏ @rachssmith  When you find out that on average women earn 25% less than men do in your company!! Think I am going to only start working 75% of the week now!! #GenderPayGap #GenderPay #gender

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When two people are friends, it's usually because your lives crossed paths, your personalities are like Ying and Yang or one of you simply continued to annoy the other until friendship flourished. What happens though, when one of them disrupts the status quo? Strong friendships should be able to get through tough times. 
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When two people get married, it is because you love one another, or, you feel like you want to move your life onto it's next chapter, you want children, you want to share life experiences with someone special. You might want to have children and spend he rest of your life happily with companionship. You might want to marry someone wealthy to make your life easy - although this never happens to end in a happily ever after from what I've seen or read. But again, marriage itself is another fragile relationship, which you have to work on daily to ensure it is growing, nurtured and feels solid.
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What doesn't make sense to me though, is that once a friend of yours meets a man she wants to marry, and changes all of a sudden, then she seems less interested in your friendship, she spends almost all of her time with him, and makes barely any time for you, seems disinterested in everything else topic wise besides her man, then what are you supposed to do? Do you leave her to it?

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What do you do when your relationship with your husband or wife is going rocky? As a significant other, you should play your part in caring for your other person - at times you'll find yourself being a councillor, sometimes a cook, sometimes a cleaner, sometimes a motivational speaker, but you're trying to be the best version of yourself in this life, and there tends to be expectations from both parties (no matter how much you're told the other doesn't expect anything, that's BS) Everyone expects. Were we not born from our mothers expecting to be fed? Were we not born expecting our parents to take care of us? Of course we were. It's in our DNA. 

Start as you mean to go on and all of that - 2018 started really well for me! 
I have secured another client for an on-going copywriting and blogging service. 
I'm particularly enjoying working for this legal client and will keep you all posted on how things are going for me with SO Content Marketing.

For blogging and copywriting packages for your business - contact me. CONTACT

Parts of my life are thriving. 
Other parts are not so 'together'... And I don't mind admitting it. I won't go into it in detail but it's really not always easy - living life, and especially gets harder, the older that you get. 

I looked in the mirror today and thought, gosh I look awful. 
It's because I feel like I'm clinging onto sanity some days - sometimes there is so much to deal with that looking for best is not a priority.

Coming on to priority, it's just a difficult life - juggling home, marriage, friendships, finances, responsibilities, work, career, food, health, future, planning,

I want to live a fulfilling life. I want to travel widely, and be joyous. I want to meet people with amazing stories about their childhood or their family. I want to eat good food with people that make me laugh. I don't want to take life so seriously, all the time. 

But that's not to say, I wouldn't change anything from the past. 

Knowing everything I know now, I might have changed a couple of things, but then again, it would be delving onto a different path, which can also bring about uncertainty, problems, unhappiness, heart ache, so maybe in the grand scheme of things, if we were to believe in God, then we have to believe everything happens for a reason and you have landed in this place, at this moment for a reason.

That is a comforting thought I think. That things have a purpose and they all fit into place like a jigsaw. We want perfect lives but they don't exist. We want peace in our friendship circles, spouses, siblings, parents and this doesn't exist 100% of the time either. How can two minds, hearts, souls that come together from different paths, experiences, feelings, thoughts ever be on the same page 100% of the time? They just can't. And then it boils down to how a person handles situation. Do they fly off the handle at the slightest disagreement? 
Do they remain silent until they have gathered their thoughts? Do they forgive? Do they forget? Do they harbour the bitterness to allow it to consume them and you?

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