Top10Tips.co.uk is really pleased to release a feature from Neil Capstick on Writing Winning Bids & Tenders.  As a writer, Neil wrote an excellent feature in what can only be described as record time.  We’ve been holding Neil’s feature for some time waiting to release it.

Neil guidance and expertise in this area is nothing short of a huge insight in to business development and we are sure that this feature will be a welcomed release for our visitors to share across the community.

So let us have a look a Neil’s Top10 feature:

This feature is the first one that we will be released as 12 part feature, starting with an Introduction to Writing Winning Bids & Tenders.

Share the feature with friends, followers and fans…

Over the next 14 days, we will release the feature as 12 individual tweets on 12 consecutive days, feel free to share the material with your friends, follower, fans and associates.  Enjoy

With an interesting twist this month Laura Hillman from Rockstar Group clearly marked the favourite topic this month with 692 people coming to her feature to read Connecting with Customers using Social Media.

The Top10Tips.co.uk website has been running for 11 months and we are really pleased to have had 5,000 visitors on the website last month.

Top10 Features for May 2010:

1. Connecting with Customers using Social Media, 692
2. Effective use of Credit Control, 600
3. Why use a Business Coach, 587
4. Using Social Commerce, 564
5. Social Enterprise: Is it Right for You?, 537
6. Packaging Design, 508
7. Pay Per Click Advertising, 503
8. Using a Virtual Assistant to grow without Red Tape, 439
9. Social Responsibility for Small Business, 410
10. Account when starting out.

Next Month…

We will be changing some of what we do to introduce some rhythm (refer to Give your Business Rhythm) to the way we release features.  Look out for the next release:    Writing Winning Bids & Tenders, where we will trial a 12 part release, introduction through to conclusion.

Thanks to all the tweeters who share the material.

If you’re a blogger and want to blog about Top10Tips.co.uk, then please feel free to send us a Tweet and write a blog.  All our contributors are UK business people who have made a conscious decision to contribute to the project.

We’ve made some special graphics for you to include in your blogs posts.

There are 4 different types of graphics

1. Love SmallBiz
2. Best Tip
3. Cool Tips
4. My Tips (if you have contributed)

Here are the samples:

AND lastly, you can choose from any one of six different colours…

GET THE GRAPHICS…

To grab (copy + paste) the images just go to:
http://www.top10tips.co.uk/toolkit.php

Which colour & style is your favourite?

Until recently the project had kept away from blogging, but we’re now on the blog and we can thank Helen Stothard of HLS Business Solutions for her #followfriday blog post about the Top10Tips Project.

As it seems, Helen writes every week a #followfriday blog post for Twitter and she included the small business tips in her business blog.

This site is such a breath of fresh air…it’s all about collaboration and sharing of knowledge…as I said, they are experts in their field.

Take a look at closer look at Helen’s regular #followfriday blog postings…they’re something else.  Very regular, very real and a great insight.  So nice of Helen to recognise Top10Tips.co.uk as a source of reliable and relevant information.

Thanks to Helen.

You know when a project is starting to work:  the community start to refer to the pieces that have been written.  Interestingly in the first couple of days of this month, we noted a link from the UnLtd’s website blog about Adrian Aston and his feature Social Enterprise: Business on a Social Mission.

Quote from the blogger:

There’s an abundance of useful links on the forums and I found a link to Adrian’s top 10 tips which I feel is a really full explanation of what a social enterprise does and should be for a newcomer.

Here it is:

Thanks to Kate (the blogger) who must be one of the hundreds that read Adrian’s feature last month.  It’s great that Kate has engaged with the project and it’s even better that she sees the feature as pre-cursor to a wider subject for our website visitors.

Comments like this is what the project is for….relevant, reliable and reputable information for small business.

It’s great to see these comments being made.  Feel free to link to any of the articles in your blogs.

May must be the month of Advertising.

It would seem the feature from Damien (@dr_ppc) on Pay Per Click is doing so well with 217 hits on 10th day of this month.   Perhaps it’s because we mentioned the AtoZ of Pay Per Click that Damien is currently preparing.

Or maybe it is because people are advertising their way out of April and want some reliable and reputable tips on how to go about advertising their small business online.

Read about Test & Measure with Pay Per Click this May with Damien’s Pay Per Click advertising tips.

Top10Tips.co.uk is really pleased to release a feature from Nadine Hill – The Dream PA.  Nadine not only runs a boutique small business but she is also an ambassador for small business.

Nadine has been very well publicised for supporting trained Personal Assistants in making the move to become Virtual Assistants.

So let us have a look a Nadine’s Top10 feature:

Nadine’s small business credentials go much, much, much further >> she attended No.10 Downing Street this year on behalf of Enterprise UK.

Top10Tips.co.uk is really proud to have Nadine contribute to the project – especially as we have her view on how a Virtual Assistant supports in the Business Development process.

Read Nadine’s Top10Tips:
Using a Virtual Assistant to grow without the Red Tape

If you have any comments about the welcomed release of this feature, please comment below.

Also try: Latest News from the Dream PA.

With an interesting twist this month Chris Penfold from Design Cognition stormed in to top position with 660 page views for his Packaging Design tips after releasing the video version.

The Top10Tips.co.uk website has been running for 10 months and we regularly receive over 4,000 unique visits every month.

Top10 Features for April 2010:

1. Packaging Design, 660 Views
2. Social Enterprise, is it right for you? 533 Views
3. Connection with your customers by Social Media, 464 Views
4. Effective use of Credit Control, 390 Views
5. Making effective online videos, 378 Views
6. Email Stationery Design, 377 Views
7. Search Engine Optimisation, 367 Views
8. Top 10 Tips from Mike Southon, 311 Views
9. Creating Newsworthy PR, 278 Views
10. Strategic Marketing for Startup

Next Month…

A new ‘Writing’ feature has just been released about winning tenders so now there are 20x contributors to the project.  As the election takes place it will be interesting to see which features are most popular during May.

This is the blog roll for Top10Tips.co.uk.