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When I started building websites back in 1996 part of the process was to teach small business owners that having a company website was the way ahead and not just the latest fad.
At the same time I was fortunate in that my position was in a marketing and not a design department.  That way, I [...]

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Setting up a Pay per Click (PPC) campaign with Google AdWords is relatively simple.  But setting up a successful campaign that will earn you money and not cost you a fortune, is less simple.
Here are five tips to help a small business to set up a successful Google Pay per Click (PPC) campaign.
1. Don’t only [...]

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At last! This week the government “officially” confirmed the UK is now in a recession.  Something all businesses have known since well before Christmas. But now the credit crunch is affecting all UK business, no matter what size, what advice can I give you to not only survive the recession but to positively improve your [...]

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If 2008 was a tough year in business for you then I can only see more businesses going bankrupt in 2009.
To help start the year off on the right path, here is some free internet marketing advice to help you get and stay ahead of your business competitors.
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Entice your website and blog [...]

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I just had a very nice chat on the phone with a man whose first attempt at online shopping seemed to have resulted in a fraudster using his card to buy mobile phone top-ups. I don’t understand why he called us (it wasn’t one of my web shops), but I hope I did the [...]

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Maybe, like me, you’ve noticed that you’ve had less junk email this week and you’ve been wondering why. News sites are reporting that a large spammer-friendly hosting service in California has been disconnected by its service providers after they were sent evidence about its activities. (Check out the “Next” links on the report [...]

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I wrote to a site owner last week and I thought I was writing to a webmaster. The site owner complained about some of the jargon and, while explaining who I thought I was writing for, I explained some of it because I think more website owners might benefit from these three explanations:-
“Expat-like terms” [...]

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Like all visitors to the Listening to the Social Entrepreneur conference, my pack included a leaflet from a university research centre. Today it popped up on the top of my in-tray while I was making a concerted effort to clear it. The leaflet is a description of the research centre, but it included [...]

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Many businesses fall into the trap of launching a website and then sitting back and waiting for new customers to contact them. Many clients have contacted my website development and internet marketing company, Buzzin Fly, frustrated that they had paid another design company to build an expensive website, but six months later they have not [...]

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According to a recent article, 6 Common Website Mistakes That Cost Money are:

1. JavaScript or other crawler-unfriendly navigation that may impede indexing

This one is best avoided at design-time, by including Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Level A in the design brief, but if you’ve ended up with JavaScript-based navigation on your site (check by doing [...]

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