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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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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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Our weekly newsletter offers handy tips and straightforward advice on running your website and getting to grips with social media. It’s free to subscribe and you’ll get regular tips which will be easy to understand and apply to your own business, whether you are confident on the web or see yourself as a bit...
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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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It’s the New Year which always inspires thoughts of how to increase business, have a more successful year that last year (however successful that was anyway) etc. etc.  And what has been springing to mind this week is how I can be more genuine when I’m on the web, which is my business after...
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SEO or Search Engine Optimization, getting your website found, can be a complex and time consuming persuit. This is particularly the case if you haven’t got your keywords correct or got your site set up properly. Use sitemaps to get you started. There are one or two very basic things that you can do...
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Do you give away a free document, report, video or audio when people sign up to your email list? If not, perhaps you should. It’s really not that difficult to do and most people love to pick up something for free. Firstly you will need a report or something to give away. I can’t...
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Ran into a little problem with the native archive utility on Mac this week. Many of you probably know that I’m mainly a Mac person and so I tend to get called in locally when people have a problem with their Macs and this was just such a case.  Software needed updating and it...
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WordPress has so many exciting little buttons doing things all over the place that it can be easy to miss things.  For example lets look at the Publish box over there on the right hand side when you are writing a new page or a post for your site. Obviously the big blue publish...
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There may be times when you don’t want to give people the option of commenting, for example on a static home page or perhaps the “About Us” page.  However if you turn the option off in the general settings (Settings / Discussion) then it turns them off for the whole site. To quickly go...
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