Guest Blogs
Knowitall.ch often invites local experts in their field to contribute to their own blogs on our site. This means not only you will benefit from the useful recommendations that we make on our News pages, but you can also profit from some of the great advice and tips that these experts have to make on their favorite subjects. Whilst each of these bloggers has been recommended to us at some point during the evolution of Know-it-all passport and knowitall.ch, obviously we are not able to test out all the suggestions they make on their blogs, nor do we necessarily agree with all their opinions. So if you do find one of their tips useful (or not!), do let us know!
To make these blogs more accessible to you, we have now decided to group them altogether in one section, entitled Guest Blogs, accessible from our main menu bar. We will also post the most recent blogs on the home page of our site in the right hand column.
We are still building up this area of the site, and are looking for bloggers in a number of sections, including Your Home, Travel, and Leisure, so if you feel you have a useful contribution to make in either of these areas, and have the time to submit blog entries approximately every month, then please get in touch!
By Sarah Santacroce at Simplicity
If you are a personal or business coach, you might be aware that your competition is slowly but surely getting the idea of Social Media and while you are still hesitating, they are building their “tribe”, engaging with their potential clients as we speak.
So I thought I’d write a post for you to encourage you and take that first step into the world of Social Media.
Facebook: Some coaches decide to use their personal profile on Facebook also for their business. I recommend you don’t. I recommend you get a professional page, or “Fanpage”. You can do much more with a page, in terms of marketing and you will also not have to worry about privacy issues. You only post business info, or personal info that you want to share with your business contacts. Go claim your page right now !If you have already started using your personal profile for business, just be very careful with what you are posting.
Read the full blog entry from Rosa's Yummy Yums
I have decided to present one of those sweet confections instead of blogging about the usual Yuletide cookies or candy. Don't get me wrong, I am the biggest sucker for those goodies, but in December, magazines and blogs already offer enough recipes for biscuits, bonbons and bars. It is the reason why I thought that it would be great to share something a bit different than what you usually see everywhere when Noël is around the corner.
I wanted to create a special dessert with the Matcha Pâtissier that the Palais Des Thés graciously offered me back in September and sublimate it, so after a certain amount of brainstorming I came up with a wonderful idea: I'd bake "Mont Blancs" (also known as "Monte Bianco in Italy) or rather a modernized version of a that luxurious and festive classic worthy of gracing the Italian table of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia during the 15th and 16th century, and that of France's noblest families during Louis XIV's reign.
Read the full blog entry from Rosa's Yummy Yums
Today, I have decided to post an Autumn/Winter Norwegian apple delicacy that fits perfectly the season: "Eplepai". The name translates into "Apple Pie" in English, yet this speciality is rather a soft wettish cake than a shortcrust pastry-based dessert.
This Scandinavian goodie is ridiculously simple and fast to put together, nonetheless it is far from being characterless, boring or bland gustatively speaking. The warm spices pair admirably with the sweet tartness of the fruits and the toasted almonds add a gorgeously nutty note to the whole. A luscious and morish treat that is sticky, extra moist, super smooth in texture, mighty gratifying and somehow reminds me of pudding. Heavenly!
I have freely adapted the recipe from Beatrice Ojakangas' marvelous and highly recommended bestseller "The Great Scandinavian Baking Book". I operated a few small changes to it as I believed it could be slightly improved (not that it really needed any enhancement, though). My version uses ground cardamom, vanilla extract and roasted almond sticks. An addition which doesn't alter the über-nordisk and preciously old-fashioned flavors of that succulent torte.
By David Cooper, Fund Advisers Europe
Another European Summit happens this week in an attempt to find an answer (again!) to the Eurozone crisis of confidence.
It appears we shall see Germany pushing for greater degrees of Fiscal Union, as a trade for their continued support of the Eurozone failing economies. At the moment Germany is the only thing standing between many of the indebted countries and bankruptcy.
Ms Merkel would have Germany, the EFSF and the European Central Bank, support the failing economies, allowing them to remain liquid, able to raise funds from Sovereign Debt whilst implementing austerity measures to reduce deficits. Measures Germany would want agreed under the Fiscal Union – moving Europe closer towards becoming the ‘United States of Europe’.
Perhaps to understand how this has come about, it is better to look at why the Eurozone, in its current guise, has failed.
By Sarah Santacroce at Simplicity
If you run a business website and check your Google Analytics regularly, you might know that the “Contact us” page is one of the most frequently visited pages of your site (after the home page, the about page and the resource page). So you want to make sure that you give the visitor all the necessary information he/she needs.
To do that, first let’s analyze why people visit the “Contact us” page:
- they want to call you
- they want to e-mail you
- they want to find out where you are located (which country)
- they are looking for a name of one of your employees
- they need your address to write you an invoice
- they want to see how to find you (map)
- they want to see your Social Media profiles
- they want to know who runs the website/company
