PPC is Bullshit

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Kay

It has been my displeasure to recently have come across some companies that are delivering an amazing low cost ‘affordable’ marketing solution. These companies target small businesses who perhaps may not know enough about online marketing to understand exactly what it is they are being sold.

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Why targetting competitive keyterms could break your small business

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Kay

If you are a small business looking for an SEO service it helps to do a bit of background reading to understand what ranking for those keyterms could really mean to your business.

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Speedy Proposal Generation

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Kay

I was recently shown a new online proposal generation tool and asked to give me comments (I am not being paid for this post).

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Get Rich Quick with Fast Hosting!

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Kay

If you seriously think that faster hosting is all it takes to make a successful website you are very much mistaken. Sorry about that.

With every announcement made by Google there comes a stream of updates by service providers who try to use ‘the official word of Google’ to their advantage. Of course they will, it is business afterall.

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Website Stats and Analytics – Do you know what it means?

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Kay

Do any of these sound familiar?

“According to my website stats I get 3000 hits per month but I’m not getting any sales”

“My SEO provider tells me my visits are increasing by 150% each month but I haven’t had any enquiries yet”

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Yet another new blog theme

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Kay

When I first set up my website/blog it was after a long time of people asking me if I had one and telling me that I should have one.

“But you’re in the Internet business. You should have a website”.

And they were right!

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I was swayed by the green.

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Ruminations

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Kay

In my career I’ve worked with many small, medium and large businesses in various capacities and have a pretty good idea how different businesses work and the sort of challenges different business sizes and types face. But even with all that experience I had never actually ran my own business (unless you count flogging my paintings to passers when I was 6.) Now that I do run my own business I realise even more that there’s nothing like experiencing things for yourself to be able to empathise more with the businesses you are working with.

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A free website with Getting British Business Online

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Kay
Free Websites for UK Businesses

Free Websites for UK Businesses

Following my post yesterday (Do you really need to pay for a website) a friend @mime109 tweeted me over a website address that is offering any UK Business a free website. It all looks very official with some big name logo’s. I decided to have a look around.

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Do you really need to pay for a website?

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Kay

There are still a great many small businesses, volunteer organisations and charities out there that don’t have a web presence because they think it all sounds quite scary and more to the point, costly.

They don’t know who to turn to to ask for help because they think they will get blinded by science or sucked into getting something bigger than what they need.

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