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A Free Idea for Big Box Retailers

Front Office Box

Update to this post – I see Tesco now has an iPhone app which does this, and more on top. It helps you find the nearest store, and stuff in in it. Smart – huh? They never told me it was anything to do with this post, but it’s certainly would be nice to think [...]

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Cut Costs in Selling and Sourcing With Webrequest

Business on the web

Forms in web pages is quietly becoming business as usual. Google does a good job of hiding its Forms inside spreadsheets (?) but offers an interesting tool for sending questionnaires to people and recording responses in spreadsheets. WuFoo offers and attractive alternative – it has lots of tools to build the questions and design the form, and some interesting [...]

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Funding An Internet Start Up

Starting a business

There will be a lot of people asking themselves this question, and not many will have an answer.  This post explains our view of the alternatives, and why we think most people with an answer have made the wrong choice.

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The Difference Between Personal CRM and Social CRM

Personal CRM

Two new terms are literally “exploding” in the on-line chatter about how we can make more use of the social sites we’re engaged in – Personal CRM and Social CRM. This isn’t because somebody has spent millions on marketing, or even that anybody has come up with a definitive description. We now have so many [...]

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The Real Internet Marketing Experts

Business Internet

We’ve never made any claim to expertise in this new world of Internet Marketing – just reported what we’ve learned. Maybe because of that our posts on the subject are amongst the most read in this blog. There are two Real Experts who anybody wanting to learn should follow closely. Here are two recent articles [...]

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Confused About Pay Per Click

Business on the web

Last year we ran a pilot campaign with the help of agency. It cost a lot of money, and achieved precisely nothing

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Starting An Internet Business

Starting a business

Starting an Internet Business is Easy! Hundreds, if not thousands, do it everyday.

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Seven Tips for the Start Up in 2009

Starting a business

Seven tips for Start Up businesses to get off the ground with systems built on free software

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Introduction to Social Media Marketing

Social Media Marketing

Thumbnail In this paper we offer an introduction to the new Internet phenomena – Social Media Marketing explaining: Why it’s important for small businesses to understand it What to do, and how to go about it. (all the site names are links) Where to go to start building a web presence. Why you need to [...]

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Software Vendors – your days are numbered

Business on the web

Back in the days before the steam engine, everybody had a clear understanding of customer service, cost efficiency and productivity.  They were mostly self employed as farmers, builders, blacksmiths, tailors and cobblers etc.

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