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The publishing scene has changed beyond all recognition in the last ten years. At the beginning of the century, online book retailing represented only 5% of total book sales. Now that figure is closer to 30%. Bricks and mortar bookstores are struggling to stay in business, unable to come to terms with the threats posed [...]

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Keeping up with the latest available technology can be an impossible and sometimes thankless task, but is a necessary evil in this day and age, if only to be able to compete in the business market and keep one step ahead of your rivals.
Unless you already have a basic understanding of what you need [...]

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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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