Increase your market share Anyone can look up your website from anywhere.Your prospect could be 100s of miles away and looking for your the product or service you sell. Your website can help them find you. You can sell 24/7 365 days a year Gone are the days where you sell 9am to 5pm to [...]
04
Aug
Why have a website
Nearly every business has a website these days. Almost 100,000 new website go live each day. I know that is a lot. but most of them don’t know why they need a website or how to use it effectively for their businesses. To make your website work for you and give you a good ROI [...]
01
Jul
Do I have to be a local designer?
I see a lot of searches in my stats with names of cities other than where I live (wellington). I have local clients and clients all over New Zealand. With email and skype or phone it is so easy to get what you want these days. I have not met most of my customers face-to-face. [...]
21
Jun
Updating your business website
How often to update a business website was one of the searches on my blog stats today. A very good question. If you are a small business update the site as often as you can. It can be twice a week or more. Definetely 3-4 times a month. Search engines love fresh good content. You [...]
09
Jun
Small Business websites
As a small business myself I know how important it is to have a website that is targeted at your customers. How many of you small business owners know Where your traffic is coming from How they are searching for you ? (keyphrase or keyword) Who is refering the visitor Which search engine sent you [...]
11
Mar
Easy to update websites
I realised this morning I have not posted for a while. The reason being – busy building websites and driving traffic to my own sites. A friend of mine is starting a business. She is not very computer lierate and is not very comfortable using computers. She came to me and said “ I am [...]
12
Dec
WordPress as CMS for businesses…
There is a lot of searches for the keywords in my title. Yes I see them at least twice a week on my blog stats. I suddenly realized the power of that plug in. It tells you where your visitor came from, what link they clicked and what keyword they used to find you! What [...]
31
Oct
Web 2.0
Yesterday I wrote about the power of content management system and how important it is to your business. It is not some fancy tool I am trying to sell to you. It is a tool that can be used to enhance and increase your business activity. It is also the way Internet is changing and [...]
30
Oct
Content Management System
If you are a small business and you don’t have a website, you are leaving money on the table. I deal with small businesses everyday. The ones that do very well are the ones that update their websites often and keep the content fresh. These days customers expect you to have a very informative website. [...]
24
Oct
When business is down
Reading the news has become a chore for me these days. Who wants to read the doom & gloom? It is everywhere – markets down, dollar falling, foreclosures. Yes it is hard. But for those of us who keep looking for opportunities, It is always there. We just have to use a bit of imagination [...]
