Recently I was interviewed by the www.businesswings.co.uk website about running a home based business. I started working from home in 2005 and now wouldn’t have it any other way!
If you like it you may also be interested in the other interview we did on social media for small businesses.
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Continue ReadingI was interviewed this week by Rob Wilson of www.r-plus.co.uk.
We talk about small business websites, why they don’t work, why WordPress is a good choice for a small business owner, how to make your website search engine friendly.
We finish with some more detailed information about our Website Bootcamp Weekend.
The recording is here, kindly supplied by [...]
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Continue ReadingI had an email yesterday from a fellow small business online marketing specialist with a question. He has some business owners saying that as they have a Google Maps entry they don’t see why they should bother to have a website as well. His question was what would I say in answer to them?
All small [...]
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Continue ReadingWhile everyone else is posting ‘happy new year, what are your plans for 2010′ posts, I’m going to start with one about the VAT change…”how boring”, you say?
Well actually this isn’t really about the VAT change, that’s just what prompted it. In the UK the VAT rate (sales tax to everyone else) has gone back [...]
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Continue ReadingI was called recently by someone saying, “your website, www.hythehandbook.co.uk, doesn’t come up very high in Google; can we send you a report showing you those results with some idea of how we can improve them for you?”.
Usually I would have explained about this business helping small business owners with their local online marketing and [...]
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Continue ReadingOur friend, a local small business owner, recently set his business up on Google Maps (more on that next week) and has had two customers so far that he can directly attribute to his entry. His business is small and two customers for him in a reasonably short time is a great result. He [...]
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Continue ReadingI read an article in the Sunday Times this week about a new wave of entrepreneurs who are building their new businesses from 5-9pm in the evening once they get in from their day job.
The newspaper commented that traditionally people would often leave their jobs to start their businesses but now they are staying on [...]
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Continue ReadingDo you use the internet to search for information? And do you search for local products and services online. I thought so. Most people do nowadays. Only a small percentage of people regularly buy online but, as we’ve said before, many people buy offline after searching online.
“Google it”
Most of us use the internet [...]
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Continue ReadingHow exciting! My first article has been published in the Kent on Saturday today.
It’s entitled ‘Life is tweet, with a little technological know-how…’ (the headline wasn’t mine!). The article talks about how useful Twitter can be for small businesses as well as how to use it.
You can get to it using the link above but [...]
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Thank you very much for the 10 day ecourse using social media for business. It is extremely helpful and useful, and as I am new to using social media, it explained everything in simple terms so I could understand and gave me a great insight into each one.