Need help with things online – websites, WordPress, Social Media, that sort of thing? Got a website? Got WordPress? Signed up with Social Media? Read on to discover how to make them all work efficiently to promote your business. Scroll through the menu above and see what catches your eye or pick one...
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WordPress, Websites and Social Media – help is at hand
Embedding video in WordPress
Embedding a YouTube video in WordPress Putting a YouTube video in WordPress? That’s easy, isn’t it? You just copy the link into the post and click on publish. Well, yes, that will put a video into your post. And it will look like the one below. And here’s the video: Literally all I have...
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Using Social Media without losing hours
Using social media without spending – wasting? – hours on it every day? There is no doubt that, when done correctly, using social media can widen your circles of connection but one of the keys is to be there regularly so people can get to know you. Here are some ways I use to...
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Stop swamping me! Don’t overdo the Giveaways
Are you deluging people with your giveaways? “Sign up to our newsletter and we’ll give you 46 videos of business tips free!” “Yours to download now, 10 e-books with all you need to know about running a small business!” “Join our discussions and every week we’ll send you two MP3′s on improving your client...
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WordPress versus Drupal?
WordPress versus Drupal: I have been asked a couple of times recently whether someone should use WordPress or Drupal for their new website. The results of the discussions were that one chose Drupal and one chose WordPress. What follows are some of the thought processes that we went through to come to those decisions. ...
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Bringing Twitter feed into Drupal
I have spent part of the morning bringing a Twitter feed into Drupal. I can’t show you because its on an intranet site but it was pretty straightforward. I didn’t need to tweet from the site or show multiple feeds. All I wanted to do was show the results of a list in the...
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What’s hiding in your WordPress Theme?
I decided I wanted to change my wordpress theme this morning. So I played around with some of the other themes I had installed. Then, as is often the case, I went back to the one I had been using originally. However because I had actually activated and then deactivated the other themes, some...
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Use Google Alerts to keep on top of things
So you run a lovely boarding kennel for cats in Shropshire. You do a Google search to find out who your competitors are. Great. But how will you know when anyone new comes on the scene? Will you miss the blog post where someone is bemoaning the fact they desperately need 5 star accommodation...
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My Social Media Guide To ME!
Feeling a little bewildered by social media? Thinking your company should be tweeting, linking on LinkedIn and encouraging people to ‘like’ you on Facebook? Social media offers a wealth of new opportunities to find out more about your customers and raise awareness of your product but it’s often difficult to know how to go...
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Start-ups toolkit
Starting a business, either online or offline? Well you can’t really be totally “offline” today, can you, because even if your business is very solidly based in the real world, such as building stone walls, for example, you still need a “web presence”. That’s where people will look when their stone wall falls down....
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