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In the past, building up a social network for your business required you to acquire a list of contacts and over time liaise with them and build up a rapport by keeping in regular contact with them. The growth of the internet hasn’t lessened the importance of social networks, but it has made it much [...]

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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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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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A business lesson – if you are successful in business you should look towards change and not stagnation.
As early as the mid-1990s I was taking part in meetings and presentations with a company called MAGEX who was attempting to sell their idea and ultimately their software, to the music industry.  The software allowed someone to [...]

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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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Increase your Web Presence:
Make a bigger web footprint by managing an ongoing internet marketing campaign.
Make sure your developers are well versed in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM).  Don’t be surprised if they’re not!
Many companies offer website design & development, while others simply concentrate on online marketing.  It is preferable to deal [...]

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