Have you forgotten anything this week, such as Mother's Day? if so, the chances are you are a middle-aged male...! Men around their 50s (oh dear...!) are the ones who are the most forgetful, according to new research. So, if you are a woman - brilliant - you can smugly accept you are better than us blokes. And if you are a middle-aged chap, well perhaps this week it is time to get that little notebook in every room, just so you can jot down reminders as you think of them. Oh, and that won't do you any harm either. Studies repeatedly show the most successful entrepreneurs are the ones who write everything down, from ideas to what they have learnt. And to do that, they have notebooks everywhere, from the car to the shower. Or is it because those successful business people are, well, middle-aged men, who have admitted their memory is not up to much? Either way, you can't do yourself any harm by having notebooks to jot things down in - even if you are a woman with a brilliant memory...!

So, what else could you be doing this week, on top of investing in a pile of notepads? Here are my suggestions.

• Planning: Video is increasingly popular online. Indeed, over a billion videos are watched each day online. There is little doubt that video is an important communications tool which your website visitors will increasingly demand. So, what plans to you have in place to increase your content using video? What technologies are you going to use to incorporate video into your website?  This is no longer an area which you can "think about", there needs to be some serious planning as to how you can begin your own online TV channel for your business. Remember, if you don't do this, your competitors will.
• Content: Monday, is the "Ides of March", the day on which a soothsayer is alleged to have told Julius Caesar to "beware" and the day on which he was killed. Ever since, the 15th of March has been deemed the day that bad things are most likely to happen. So, what evils have best your industry on this date? Is there some link between the "ides" and your customers? If so, it could make a great article. More happily, perhaps, the 15th March is the date on which the first ever internet domain name was registered, 25 years ago in 1985. That's worthy of comment, surely. This week also sees the 45th anniversary of the first ever space walk, quite topical now that President Obama has cancelled much of NASA's work. If you want to celebrate a birthday or two this week, how about American actor, Rob Lowe, who will be 46 this week? You could write an article on communications, since he played the Whitehouse communications guru in The West Wing. And if actors aren't your thing, well you might like to celebrate England footballer Theo Walcott's 21st Birthday this week.
• Tidying up: How much old paperwork is cluttering your office? Are your filing draws stuffed to the brim? Time perhaps to get as much as you can scanned in. Several desktop scanning devices are now available, such as the ScanSnap, to do the job. And you don't even have to store all those old documents on your PC; you can subscribe to something like LiveDrive to have them stored on a remote server, always available no matter where you are in the world.
• New features: Your web business isn't all about the internet; sometimes you exist in the physical world...! And just occasionally you need to do a physical world thing, such as write a letter, print it and post it, but you can't because you are away from your office. Well, thanks to ViaPost you can do exactly that. This provides you with the ability to write a letter - or any document - on your laptop, for instance, and then click "print". But instead of the item printing out in your hotel room, it is sent to the ViaPost servers where the letter is printed and posted to your recipient. In fact, you don't even have to use this service "on the road". You can use it as your normal system for printing correspondence. That way you save the time of printing it, stuffing the envelopes and then trekking down to the Post Office yourself.
• Reading: I'm only half-way through this book, but what I've read so far means I have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending it. "E-Riches 2.0" shows you exactly how to set up and run an online business and make serious money from your efforts. It is clear, thorough and provides several useful examples and case histories. It is down-to-earth and is no-nonsense in its approach, so it explains clearly that you have to take action, rather than just read the book..! But if you take the action suggested, then there is every reason to believe you will do well. If you are looking for a complete "how to" guide on making money from an online business, this is the book to buy.

So, there you have it for another week. See you in seven days...!