The Web Guy, Online Insights for Business
Orange could never be accused of being an ordinary business. And now they are looking for something else that’s different, your business idea. If you are the lucky entrepreneur you will receive £200,000 worth of funding from Orange, including business planning advice, telecoms support, marketing consultancy, investment capital and legal advice to help turn your idea [...]
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Blogging is not just for “tech geeks”, it has a real business purpose that can be harnessed. SouthWest Airlines are a fantastic example of a business committed to blogging. Recent research of 4000 businesses by Hubspot shows that businesses who blogged 16 to 20 times per month got over 2 times more traffic than those [...]
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This is the first SWOT post, Sean’s Week On Twitter. What will become a series of weekly posts highlighting some of my favourite articles that I have shared on Twitter during the week and why. Do your Marketing and/or Social Media efforts actually move people? Great article by Mitch Joel of [...]
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When the largest provider of website analysis goes down what can you do? Many commercial providers will be shouting: “That’s what you get for using a free service!” but all services go wrong, paid for or otherwise and I know who I would rather have fixing the problem. It does raise an issue that many, [...]
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Since Facebook launched it’s Place functionality the location based services channel has been relatively quiet. Nothing significant has hit the market and no major releases announced. Google have now broken cover. Earlier in the month saw the subtle move of location search filters to the left of the page now they announce Google Boost. Until [...]
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Small businesses are always asking me, “How do I get to number 1 in Google?”, invariably my reply is, “How much are you willing to spend?”, with a wry smile of course. I do have to remind myself that even now in today’s switched on world there are lots of businesses that still don’t understand [...]
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Forget the excuses there just aren’t any! As a business owner you need to blog, you need to be displaying to your prospective customer base you know what you are talking about. You need credibility. You need the SEO benefits blogging brings to your web site. You need the customer interaction it facilitates. Anyway what [...]
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Announced early this morning on The Next Web Facebook Places is now officially live in the UK. Whilst there is no commercial aspect to the release at this point in the form of Ads, you can add locations to Facebook Pages. Currently you are unable to tag images or videos but this will come in [...]
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Facebook Places still isn’t available in the UK at present even though there are rumours that it is being tested. Unlike Foursquare, Facebook Places is likely to take off fairly rapidly in the UK when it is released due to the large Facebook user base. In light of this it would be prudent for businesses [...]
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After my last few posts on SEO I thought there was a piece missing and that was the how to from all of this. The part most have trouble with is gaining backlinks so I thought I would try to do a quick guide to gaining quality back-links for your web site. Search engine positions [...]
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