I’ve personally broken most of these, and suffered the consequences.
I hope you learn from my mistakes.
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You can have a fully operational website like this within a few hours. Free.
A common stumbling block for small businesses is the creation of a new website. Or the updating of an old website.
I’ve seen people waiting for months while a friend or relative "builds them a site". Or spend thousands of dollars on a custom, hand built site where every change has to be done by the developer for a fee. Wouldn’t it be great to update and change it yourself. Anytime you like
There are many ways of collecting payments for the goods and services that you sell online. Many are simple to set up, and just involve pasting a bit of code onto your existing web pages.
I’ll start off by discussing the easiest method - the non-bank service providers. Read the rest of this entry
It’s a jungle out there on the internet. I reckon that Scammers, Spammers, Shysters and Con Merchants outnumber the good guys about 50 to 1. Here’s 10 rules to make you less of a pushover. Read the rest of this entry
Does YOUR website will work with and without the www prefix?
"Don’t know. Why does it matter" I hear you say.
Well, here’s why it is important.
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A while ago, I received an email about a new Web 2.0 related product by Dr Joe Vitale, (Doctor Fire) who is a well known Internet Marketer. I haven’t bought anything from Dr. Joe before, and the sales letter did its work so I dutifully punched in my card number.
Oh my. Read the rest of this entry
Strangely enough, the most important Internet Skill you can ever develop has nothing to do with the internet.
Or Technology.
Or Computers.
The most important internet skill you can develop is Read the rest of this entry
To new and old webmasters starting a web business: These five basics will help you get your internet business off to a great start - and possibly make improvements to your existing one. Read the rest of this entry
This simple test will tell you if a domain name you’re considering is going to be effective.
It’s getting more and more difficult to find a good .com domain name. Pretty well every word in the dictionary has already been dot-commed. So a lot of people (including some highly paid consultants who should know better) are coming up with some really stupid ones.
Because they just don’t think. Read the rest of this entry
Many websites only show their contact details on a special contact page.
This is a mistake that could be costing you business.
Many people use the internet for research, and print out WEB pages for later reference.
If your contact details are not on this page, Read the rest of this entry
Here’s a polite way to get rid of those telemarketers who disturb your day with their sales pitches.
Just say to them - Read the rest of this entry
If you are a Google Adwords advertiser, an email like this would certainly get your attention:
Dear Google AdWords Customer,
We were unable to process your payment. Your ads will be suspended soon unless we can process your payment. To prevent your ads from being suspended, please update your payment information.
How Many Home Pages are there on your website?
The old concept of having a main home page, and then links to many other subsidiary pages to find what you want was the traditional way of building a website.
So if someone was searching for “ferrets as pets”, they would arrive at the top level of a website about ferrets. They would then search through several layers of menus – to eventually find a page about having ferrets as pets.
LO,
If you’re still using Internet Explorer, I’d suggest that you immediately change over to Firefox , Opera, Chrome, etc.
A newly found security flaw in all versions of Internet Explorer allows criminals to take over your computer, steal passwords, and do other unfriendly things.
Microsoft are working on the problem.
cheers, Eric G.
References:
http://www.builderau.com.au/tag/brow…r-security.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7784908.stm
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Over a year ago, I tried out a funny little web application called Twitter.
After playing with it briefly, I decided that it didn’t really make sense, and so I forgot about it.
After all, why would you want to send out little 140 character messages about what you were doing?
The buzz about twitter kept going, and recently turned into a deafening roar.
After taking another look at it, I realised that I had made a mistake about twitter. It’s actually VERY useful if you use it properly. Especially now it’s now reached the point where SO MANY great people are using it. Read the rest of this entry
Hi.
I've been been providing internet services and advice to small businesses since last century.
I can show you how to use your website to make your business more profitable. Check out my blog posts, and sign up for my newsletter if you'd like more of the same.
Regards, Eric Graudins.
Author of the forthcoming book
"Starting Your Online Business: Stuff you need to know before you turn the key"
