{"id":71297,"date":"2014-12-05T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T09:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk?p=71297&amp;preview_id=71297"},"modified":"2014-12-05T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T10:31:18","slug":"day-5-jingleblogs-with-jim-connolly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/day-5-jingleblogs-with-jim-connolly\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5: #JingleBlogs with Jim Connolly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to CisionUK\u2019s\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1A6Jy1A\" target=\"_blank\">#JingleBlogs Advent Calendar 2014<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s advent blogger is <strong><a title=\"Jim Connolly \" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimconnolly\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Connolly<\/a><\/strong>, author of the UK\u2019s top digital marketing blog: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jimsmarketingblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim&#8217;s Marketing Blog<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/britishbeautyblogger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We asked Jim four very special and festive questions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where are you spending Christmas this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christmas this year will be spent with my wife and son, at home in a small rural village in South Yorkshire. We relocated here from London and now I work with clients worldwide, thanks to the wonders of today\u2019s communications technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the worst Christmas present you have ever received?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I appreciate the sentiment behind every gift, but maybe the weirdest was sent to me by a small marketing company. It was a coffee mug, which contained no message \u2013 just a huge, low quality photo of their managing director! Not sure why he thought people would find that attractive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you take Christmas off or do you carry on blogging?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My rule of blogging is something I adhere to all year round, including Christmas. It\u2019s simply this: If I have something useful to share, I publish it. If that happens over the Christmas period, I\u2019ll publish it. Because I always write early in the morning, before the rest of the family are awake, blogging never eats into family time. This gives me the freedom to write whenever I want to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your New Year\u2019s Resolution?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I make resolutions all year round, not just on the\u00a01st January. However, what I always do on New Year\u2019s day, is take some extra time to review the previous year. I reflect at the end of every working week and every month, writing notes on what I\u2019ve learned and areas where I need to invest more \/ less time. On\u00a01st January, I look at the notes and seek out opportunities to improve in the year ahead. It\u2019s a motivating experience and helps me start every New Year with clarity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#JingleBlogs will continue over the weekend. Join us as we count down to Christmas with some of the UK&#8217;s leading bloggers!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to CisionUK\u2019s\u00a0#JingleBlogs Advent Calendar 2014! Today\u2019s advent blogger is Jim Connolly, author of the UK\u2019s top digital marketing blog: Jim&#8217;s Marketing Blog We asked Jim four very special and festive questions: Where are you &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":71300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1449],"tags":[5463,6725,6919,4665,4667],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}