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How to Save Your Website
Have you ever done this? Found a bright shiny website with whistles and bells, looking pretty and inviting. So you decide to stay and look round. Then you discover that although it looks like it will be informative, the website content lacks something…you cast around for the word…what is it again? Oh yes, I know.…
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Improve Your Website: Update the Content
If one of your resolutions in 2012 is to raise the profile of your website, then have you considered updating or increasing the content to be found on your site? Providing useful and informative articles are a good way to keep visitors clicking around your website and encouraging them to spend money with you. It…
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How to Keep Your Business from Failing
It’s a scary thought – you came into business, excited at a new idea, buzzing with the possibilities that lay ahead and laughing in the face of failure. Six, twelve or eighteen months on, the realities have hit: you have experienced the ups and downs of running a business: you have got to grips with…
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Does the End of the News of the World Justify the Means?
Here in the UK, there is a huge storm building over allegations that a Sunday newspaper, The News of the World, employed very underhand tactics to build their news stories including hacking into the phone of a teenager later found murdered and into celebrity phones illegally. Many of the public and politicians are up in…
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What to Do with Your Business When Life Gets in the Way
It’s been a while since I posted. We’ve had Easter Holidays and a Royal Wedding in the UK. Then our family had a French student for a week, a week in Guernsey then two weeks of working frantically to catch a deadline or two. It’s been a busy time and this blog has suffered as…
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Should You Start Your Own Home-Based Business?
Many people have job uncertainty at the moment and the option of working from home begins to look more attractive. You can’t fire yourself and the prospect of giving yourself a disciplinary warning seems unlikely! Joking aside, however, the decision to start your own business cannot be taken lightly. You would be well…
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Some Ideas for When Running a Small Business Gets Tough
I loved the Royal Wedding last Friday. The family sat down together to enjoy the day. The bride was beautiful, the dress was gorgeous, the groom was handsome in his uniform and the bridesmaids were cute. The bride and groom appeared to thoroughly enjoy their day and the beginning of their new life together. Most…
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How to Have a Good Holiday as a Small Business Owner
There’s something about being a small business owner that makes it difficult to stop being a small business owner. Even when you’re at dinner, taking the kids to school or even on holiday, then you still have a million small jobs to do: marketing, improving your website or even actually working. How do you manage…
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Crazy Business Ideas
The thread at UKBusiness Forums started me thinking – how many crazy business ideas have been started and were they successful? The answers on the forum varied from: ‘Give me a million and I’ll tell you’ to ‘Sell an E-book on ‘How to Make a Million’ for £5 to 200,000 people’ but it sent me…
