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How to Get More Visitors to Your Website

by LouiseBJ on August 5, 2010

in Marketing

You’ve probably spent a lot of time, and money, getting your website ‘just so’.  Now you want people to visit it, find out what you do and hopefully, buy from you!  Many people believe Google will instantly bring hordes of potential clients – if only that were true!  Search Engine Optimization takes time to produce [...]

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Time-Saving with Email Autoresponders

by LouiseBJ on July 29, 2010

in Email Marketing

If you thought autoresponder messages were just for sending those ‘Out of Office’ replies to emails, we’d like to introduce you to some much more interesting uses! Autoresponders are a great way to automate some of your marketing online.  They are a series of email messages you write in advance and then schedule to be [...]

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Why URL Shorteners are a Good Idea

by LouiseBJ on July 22, 2010

in Web/Tech

If you’ve ever got lost trying to write down or type a long URL like: http://www.verylongdomainname.com/index/wherenext123/perhaps here/perhapsthere/?01dontknow/youhavetobejoking/phewatlast.html, the chances are the person giving it hasn’t heard of URL shorteners or that it could have been made it into http://bit.ly/atlast (I don’t know if that’s a real web page by the way!).  This also makes the [...]

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Chatting to fellow business owners at local networking events recently, I’ve discovered that some people who use the social networks to make new business connections often favour one of ‘the big 3’ sites (Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn) and ignore the others.  This is a mistake as they could be missing the opportunity to reach a [...]

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Are you a mystery to your customers?

by LouiseBJ on May 20, 2010

in Web/Tech

I’ve just visited a very odd website.  It belongs to someone I met at a recent networking event and I wanted his email address to make contact as I can’t find his business card. When I couldn’t see any details on the home page, naturally I went straight to the ‘Contact’ page – to be [...]

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More Favourite Online Tools

by LouiseBJ on May 6, 2010

in General,Web/Tech

Following on from Sam’s post on this topic last month  – I thought I’d share 3 of my current favourites with you too! WiseStamp.com – If you use Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or AOL to send your emails, and Firefox or Chrome as your internet browser (there are plans to increase coverage very soon), do take [...]

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