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Richard Branson Business Tips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH35Iz9veM0

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Facebook Timeline – Will It Effect Business

Facebook personal accounts have changed format to Timeline. This does not currently effect business pages.

Can we expect a similar change to the format of Facebook business pages in the future? There is good reason to believe that it will. Facebook have always kept the experience on personal and business pages very similar.

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Top of Google with a Content Strategy

When people are looking for products and services just like yours, their first port of call is Google. So it goes without saying that we need to get your website on page 1 of Google or your site will be invisible.

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Cut Through Complexity By Planning for Success

Back in the good old days, business was simple.

When you consider the economy of an ancient Hunter gather societies, they only had about 100 products to trade.

Today's modern societies have over a 100 million products and services. That's a lot of choice and complexity.

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Your Business Must Be Your Passion

When it comes to running your own business and website, being passionate is essential. Otherwise you will give up before you succeed

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Top 7 Google Algorithms That Never Change

Google Algorithms
A mathematical formula Google has created for judging and calculating which web pages are the best, and should be at the top of a Google page.Google makes roughly 500 small improvements to their algorithms in a given year. The basic SEO strategies never change and I have listed 7 of them below.

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Anonymous Facebook Comments - Should I Delete?

YES DELETE You don't want to provide your competitors with an easy way to insult your business and run you down… so feel free to delete this type of malicious comment as soon as possible...

DO NOT DELETE Firstly it's important to know that if you have a bad product or service, people are going to post negative comments on the Internet… and you have a much bigger problem than just negative comments...

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Google Advertising Is Getting More Expensive

The main reason is because Google is forcing the bid price up. They have been doing this for the past few years. This is the problem that occurs when a company like Google has no competition.

You'll notice in your AdWords account that Google turns some of your keyword phrases off . This keyword phrase will then be highlighted and a message next to it saying "BELOW FIRST PAGE BID AMOUNT". Google will also provide a figure that they expect you to increase your bid amount to if you want to continue advertising.

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Making New Year's Resolutions?

Cheers to a new year and another chance to get it right... and YES you're right "time flies". The good news is that you're the pilot.

46% of Australian's make new year's resolutions. They learn from yesterday and plant new years's seeds for a year of growth and success.

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Christmas TIP – Holidays For Business Owners

We start our Internet businesses for the freedom and flexibility it provides. Then we get so passionate and caught up that it's easy to become a work-a-holic.

Fortunately Christmas arrives and provides the perfect opportunity for a break from life, experience new things and spend time with the special people in our lives.

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Christmas Marketing Count Down

It's not too late to capture the busy Christmas buying rush! Australian's will spend more money this week than at any other time during the year.

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Best Small Business Advice Ever

The absolute best business teacher you can get right now is from several of your existing customers… and there will be no charge!!!

You will learn more from your customers than any other business expert in the world. Choose the appropriate customers to ask...

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Top 20 FACEBOOK Business Pages

Based on FAN engagement.

Very cool and they really know how to do EXCELLENT social media.

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Anyone Can Succeed On Facebook

I'm giving you free tips and insights here all the time. There are also hundreds of other social media experts providing free quality advice.

You just need to make an effort. You need to set aside some time each week to get ideas and knowledge and to take action.

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Facebook and Blogging Critical Pull Marketing

The world has changed and traditional push and interrupt marketing doesn't work as well as it used to.

Facebook and Blogging provide us with a new, easy way to communicate with potential customers and market our products and services.

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8 BIG Tips For Selling More Online

1. Provide all of the information required to understand your product and make an informed buying decision (e.g. Colour, size, features, etc.)

2. Make your navigation easy to find, make the labels easy to read and understand, provide search functionality if you have a lot of products...

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4 Steps To Create A Facebook Business Page

Leverage Facebook to build a community, show off your products and drive traffic to your website.

Below is an easy to follow, step-by-step guide to set up your business on Facebook. Let's get started.

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3 Google AdWords Tips

Keywords: Avoid general keywords. Be specific and choose words and phrases a customer would use to find your products of services. Keywords that are too broad may show up on searches that are less relevant to your business...

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8 Facebook Business Etiquette Tips

Facebook and other social networking sites provide an excellent way to connect with potential customers and build relationships.

Be careful not to turn people off and damage your business reputation. Yes you can still promote your products and services, but do it in a subtle way.

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STOP Worrying It's Useless

So you're worrying... about cash flow, about making your marketing dollars go further, worried about staff, about not enough visitors or sales, worried you never have enough time, worried about tax, worried about how to get customers to refer you, etc.

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8 Harsh Realities Of Writing For the Web

When customers arrive on your website you have a few seconds to win their interest, or you lose them and they are off to your competitor. Below are 8 critical things you should know about online content:

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Retail Wars – Online Wins (3 minutes)

Traditional retail shops have been run over by a bus, but online shopping is growing at lightning speed.

Aussie consumers (many of them your customers) will spend $36 Billion shopping online by 2015.

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6 High Impact Customer Engagement Ideas

There's nothing you're selling that can't be purchased elsewhere so you need to give customers reasons to choose you. You need to engage your customers and leave them saying that you are FANTASTIC.

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Latest Change To Facebook Business Pages

Do you have a Facebook business page? If yes, then you may have noticed a new statistic provided by Facebook "TALKING ABOUT THIS".

It appears in the left column of your page, under the number of "LIKES".

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Google SEO – Get To The Top

91% of first time visitors to the average website come from Google. Make sure your website is found at the top of Google.

WHAT IS SEO
SEO are changes that you make to your website to get listed at the top of Google.

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Growing A Business Takes Time & Perseverance

You wouldn't expect an infant to get up and start walking in the first few months. You have to be realistic. It's the same with your business; you need to give it time to mature.

Starting a home based business can be done in a few months, but making that business consistently profitable will take a lot longer. The exact time frame depends on the industry, your start-up capital and the owners passion.

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Big Sell Online Is Killing Traditional Retailing

There has been a change in consumer behaviour from buying in traditional offline retail shops, to buying online. Traditional retailers are struggling. Online retail sales continue to grow.

The power is in the hands of the customer, with greater choice and better prices online they are choosing to shop on the Internet.

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Google Plus

Google+, a social network like Facebook.

Watch a demo here: www.google.com/+/demo

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Is Google Anti-Competitive?

Google's informal corporate motto and slogan is "Don't Do Evil".

Yesterday the American senate had Google in court for a Senate hearing on anti-competitive behaviour. Is Google guilty of restricting other businesses ability to compete? Should Google be restrained to create a level playing field?

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Target Consumers Who Have Money to Spend

Look at your best customers. What do they have in common? My bet is, that they all have at least one important characteristics in common. They all have money.

Yes I agree there are other profiling tools that should be looked at. Examples include; age, sex, family size, education, location, opinions, interests, etc. But when it all boils down to making a sale, it depends if the customer has the capacity to spend.

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Say "NO" to Doubts, Fears & Anxiety

Yes it's tuff out there but there are thousands of Aussie businesses are still thriving and making big profits. Hopefully you're one of the many that is unaffected by the economic wows. Any business in any industry can grow and prosper right now.

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SEO For Sites Built on Adobe Business Catalyst

Search Engine Optimising with BC (Adobe Business Catalyst)

Websites that use BC are 100% search engine friendly. You just need to follow a few basic instructions...

All of the major search engines are able to access and index all the content on your B.C. website. By content we mean your normal web pages, announcements, FAQs, images, literature such as your PDFs documents, shopping catalogues and more.

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Video Testimonials Supercharge Web Sales

A recent worldwide survey by Nielson reported that 78% of consumers find word of mouth the best way to find a good supplier. The most effective way to get word of mouth working for you is to record your happy customers, trusted celebrities or industry experts to go on camera and rave about how great you are.

Absolutely nothing persuades and sells like a good video testimonial.

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Retail Revolution Video

60 Minutes - Watch the video (13 minutes): The Retail Revolution

Online purchases are growing, while traditional retail stores are closing down.

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Invest In Your Website or Die...

The price of being in business is constant investment.

There are thousands of businesses speeding down the road to failure.
Q. Why don't they apply the brakes?
A. Because doing nothing is easier!!!

In business you cannot afford to sit on your hands. It is essential that you invest your time and money:

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Great Web Design Will Transform Your Business

First impressions are critical. If they are not instantly impressed, they lose desire and trust. Then they quickly click away to your competitors.

Easy navigation is essential. If they can't quickly find what they are looking for, then your frustrating the potential customer and encouraging them to leave your site.

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Beware Death By Discount

Internet based coupon marketing has been chanted as "The Future of Online Marketing".

The growth of this strategy and its meteoric rise over the past 12 months has been impressive… but now I've had the opportunity to speak with several business owners who have tried the strategy out and not one of them has a good word to say.

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Google SEO Starter Guide

This document is published by Google, so you are getting these SEO insights direct from the source.

Google guidelines are relevant to all web managers who want their website to rank highly in the search engine. This is a list of the main things Google is looking for to rank a website highly.

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3 Main Social Media Challenges

1. Lack of time
2. Unsure how to determine ROI.
3. Lack of knowledge about social media.

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I AM YOUR CUSTOMER

I am your customer. Satisfy my wants, add personal attention and a friendly touch, and I will become a walking advertisement for your products and services. If you ignore my wants, show carelessness, inattention and poor manners, and I will simply cease to exist as far as you are concerned...

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3 Massive Checkout Page Mistakes

No matter how good your web design, your offer or your call to action, if your checkout page is crap then you will lose sales. If the customers experience friction, negativity or problems during the checkout process, they will abandon your site and the sale.

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Kicking Business Goals In Difficult Times

What do companies like Microsoft, CNN, Google, FedEx, Burger King, MTV, Hewlett Packard, Disney and PayPal?

They all got started during difficult economic times, when most businesses were in a slump. The founders of these successful companies were not paralysed by fear. They had a great idea to fulfil a need in the market, they were passionate and willing to work hard at it and create companies built to prosper and last.

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5 Ways to Survive Google's Latest Update

The latest update was code named PANDA. If you think about Google working out it's ranking of websites as a cooking recipe, then this panda update would be like adding in a pinch more salt or a bit more sugar.

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7 ways to improve your business on Facebook

1. Maintain a relationship with customers.
2. Help customers by answering their questions.
3. Give value (tips, videos, quotes, latest articles, news and deals).

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Do You Have What It Takes To Be An Online Entrepreneur?

There are massive benefits and up-side to running your own business, but do you have what it takes?

It's not enough to say you want to make money and be your own boss. Everyone wants those things, but not everyone can achieve those goals. It takes a special person.

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3 Legal Requirements To Managing Your Email Subscribers

One of the BIGGEST benefits to online marketing is email marketing. Every profitable website takes advantage of email. It's so easy to gather information on your existing and potential customers and communicate with them for free.

Here are 3 critical legal requirements to managing an email subscriber list:

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Searching Google: Desktop V's Mobile

When people are not searching Google from their Desktop computers, they are using their mobile phone to search Google.

When people take a lunch break and leave their desktop computer, they then use their mobile phone to search.

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32 Songs  -  Music To Motivate Business Owners and Entrepreneurs

32 songs to help get your passion burning and your motivation to win and profit focussed.
Beautiful Day - U2
Let's Get It Started - Black Eyed Peas
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones

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Get Your Free Facebook Web Address

Facebook provides free Facebook business pages. You can set one up yourself or find out more about our service to set this up for you.

Important Tip: Once you set your Facebook web address it cannot be changed or transferred. So be careful.

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Google Webmaster Tools – Free Tool

Google finds ERRORS and shows you so you can fix them. When your website is error free it will be a lot more tasty to Google and the site will achieve a better ranking.

Google discovers if your website gets hacked and Malware is added. They'll even email you if they find something really bad.

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Google Places – Free Listing For Your Business

Does your business service a local area?

20% of all Google searches (12 billion per month) are local in nature.

When a user conducts a search on Google and uses a location as part of their keywords search, they expect to see local businesses in the list that Google presents. So Google now focuses on presenting local businesses.

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5 Critical Landing Page Criteria

Most of your web visitors arrive on your Home page first. Your Home should be like the cover of a magazine; visually attractive, clearly tells the user what you do, attention grabbing and exciting. Get it wrong and your in trouble...

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Video Content Production Checklist

Video is cheap and easy to produce, keeps visitors on your website longer, increases brand building power and increases sales conversion results. Below you'll find the 6 essentials for producing professional web videos.

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Benefits of Social Networking – The Lovers and Haters

Social networking has two sides.

On the one side it can provide an easy way to keep up relationships with family and friends. It can also provide you with the opportunity to develop new relationships which can be fun, heartfelt and lead to meaningful relationships...

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5 Essential Traits of Successful Web Leaders

If you lack any of these 5 web leadership traits, you severely handicapped your potential.

1. They start with a plan
2. They learn from mistakes
3. They are willing to invest
4. They are positive and passionate
5. They take action

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Funding Your Small Business

How much money do you need? Yes do a budget. Now double this budget because I can guarantee that you'll need more money than you expect and getting your business going and profitable will take longer than you expect.

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Add Free Google Gadgets To Your Website

You can add a currency converter, clocks, weather forecasts, dictionary, inspirational quotes, shipping cost calculators, live chat windows, traffic information, joke of the day, calorie calculator, live news feeds, instant Wikipedia search, instant Google search, etc, etc, etc. At the time of writing this there are more than 50,000 free Google Gadgets to choose from.

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How to Get Publicity Online

People don't look to libraries anymore for information they go to the Internet. The same is happening with news, with people looking to the Internet for information, gossip and breaking stories.

The more that people go online to get their news and information, the greater the opportunity for you to reach your customers through publicity online. Just make sure your content is news worthy content.

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Amazing Free Resources For Web Designers

There is countless free stuff on the Internet for web designers. Here are a few of my favourites:

I hope that these free resources are helpful for you.

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Customers Shop Online To SAVE Money

We already knew that humans loved a bargain. Research has just prove that this is especially true on the Internet.

According to a recent Retail Daily survey which asked Internet consumers: "Why do you shop online?

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Nobody Gets Wealthy As An Employee

Do you have a dead end job?
Do you have a job that's not going anywhere?
Do you have options???

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and dream of building your wealth, then start your own business.

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Offer Specials And Sell More!

According to the Retail Daily Survey, 80% of consumers say they're shopping online to "Save Money".

The down turn in the world economy creates financial uncertainty. This will create consumer fear making people more savvy and shrewd with their spending. This will drive more people on line looking to save money.

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Facebook Content Strategy

1. DON'T BECOME OLD & STALE
How many times have you landed on a website, a blog or a social media channel, where you can tell the company started out with good intentions, but they have let the site go? Your experience is disappointing so you leave.

2. REGULAR CONTENT
Your Facebook FANS are connected to your Facebook site. Every update on your Facebook site instantly beams to your FANS.

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5 Simple Ways To Increase Your Web Sales Conversion

5 Simple Ways To Increase Your Web Sales Conversion

1) SHOW LOGOS OF PAYMENTS ACCEPTED
2) SHOW SECURITY
3) PROVIDE CONTACT DETAILS - CREDIBILITY
4) BUY NOW BUTTONS NEED TO BE OBVIOUS
5) OUR COMMITMENT - GUARANTEES

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How To Start You Facebook Business Site

Facebook Business Site enables you to share your business and products with Facebook users. It is very similar to a personal Facebook accountan can be totally customised so you can create a visual look that matches your existing branding. The content options are flexible and infinite, so no matter what you want to sell or promote on Facebook it is achievable.

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Get Your Site Top Of Facebook

Facebook has announced it's going to take Google on as a search engine. They will rank websites using the same criteria as Google and also using the Facebook "Like This" votes. The more Facebook users that vote for your website the better. So add the Facebook "thumbs Up" icon to your website.

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Aussie Businesses MUST Compete With Global Websites

SPECIAL AUSTRALIA DAY MESSAGE
The Internet is booming and it is high time that Australian businesses started to play to win and profit. Australian businesses are way behind world quality and standards. Australian's spend 20 billion online, but 40% of Australian Internet purchases are made on overseas websites.  Here's what we have to do...

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Facebook Provides Free Statistics On Your Site

When you have a Facebook business site, you get exposure and promottion to Facebook's half a billion users.  Each week Facebook will send you an email called "Your Weekly Facebook Page Update".  You'll be able to see exactly how...

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Google Alerts – Free Tool

Google provides a free web monitoring service. You can find out which websites are mentioning you and your website. You can subscribe to get notifications about any topic, any person's name or business name, your competitors, or a particular website address.

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Create More Sales By Giving Value & Tips On Facebook

So you've got a Facebook business site and now you want to create sales. BIG TIP: Add free tips (VALUE) to your Facebook site. For example: A plumber adds a short video on "How to fix a leaking toilet". This would be interesting to the plumbers target customers. But for anyone like me who is a hopeless DIY handy man, or if you just don't have the time, who are you going to call for help? If their friends need help, who are they going to recommend? That's right...

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Don't Be A Perfectionist - It Will Kill Your Business

Being a perfectionist kills your business, wastes everybody's time and stresses you out. The reality is my website is never going to be perfect. Is 95% perfect good enough? Is it worth delaying the opportunity to get out and serve new and existing clients? Is it worth not building your wealth and profitability?  My opinion is...

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What Sucks About Internet Marketing?

There are so many dodgy web designers and dodgy gurus promising SECRETS to instant millions. It can leave you wanting to scream. As a group of online marketers here is our chance to bitch and share our hard learnt lessons. Add your own comments here and read what others had to say.

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Government Support – For Aussie Small Business

If you currently have a small business or if you are about to start one, then consider the free support and opportunities offered by the Federal Government, the States and the Territories.

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What Is This Magical New Web 2.0?

What is Web 2.0 ? And what opportunities does it present for your business ? The Internet is evolving at lightning speed and is very different today compared to just a few years ago. Learn how your business can thrive and survive in the second phase of the web.

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Blog For Profit

The latest, greatest Internet craze is Blogging. It’s taken off like wild fire. You can start a Blog for free and have it up and running in 15 minutes. That’s right, absolutely no charge. Your Blog can help you communicate and interact with your customers, drive more traffic to your website and sell more of your products and services…

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eCommerce Risk Management Guide

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Website Publicity - Creating the Publicity Buzz

Luke Hayes had the privilege of interviewing an Australian publicity and branding expert (Sue Currie) on website publicity. One of the most powerful ways to promote your business and get thousands of visitors to your website is through publicity. Sue shares her wisdom and insights and reveals killer strategies that you can use right away to get fast results.

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7 Critical Reasons For Web Content Management

If you have a website, then your organisation needs a content management system. It is a powerful tool that will save you money and time, it will ensure that your web updates are completed efficiently and effectively, and it will maximise the value of your website.

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Are You Leading Your Website To Victory?

Every business needs to have a powerful website leader, to drive its success online. The leader will ensure that their website continuously evolves into a profit machine that their clients absolutely love.

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It All Starts With a Vision

The first step in achieving your website breakthrough is to get focussed and clear. Exactly why are you creating a website and for whom. When you create a vision statement you are describing your ultimate website success story. As you develop and manage your website, your vision will be your guiding light. But how do you do this, you might ask?

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Test It - Does Your Website Sell

It’s one thing to attract visitors to your website, but do they engage or do they just click away. Do you want your visitors to get out their credit card and buy from you or subscribe to your newsletter ??? Regardless of what you are selling, your website either gets results, or it doesn’t.

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15 Essential Questions for Selecting a Web Designer

15 essential questions for selecting a web design team. It is a critically important decision when talking to and choosing a web designer. This list of points to consider will help you make a wise decision.

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Website Marketing - Top 10 Internet Predictions

Every year Luke lists his top 10 website marketing predictions and current opinions for the year ahead. By knowing the future you can know what to expect. These insights could give you the edge. Previous years predictions are also listed here, so you can see if Luke was right.

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Usability Testing - Get to the heart of your site's problems

Do you know if your website visitors are encountering problems on your site? The cost to your organisation might leave you bleeding from the back and you wouldn’t even know it. You need to discover usability problems as early as possible and take the necessary re-design initiatives.

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Everything You Wanted To Know About WEB ANALYSIS

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Get the Right Domain Name - www.YourWebAddress

Registering a domain name (website address) is like registering your business name. It is your identity and location on the Internet. Everything that you need to know to get a powerful web address is right here…

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Web Hosting 101 - Get the best deal…

It’s one thing to have a website developed, but then it needs to live on the Internet. A web hosting service is your piece of cyberspace. So get the best space to support and service your website business.

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Clear Goals, will ensure Future Web Success

The ability to set goals and achieve them is the number one success factor for a business website. Once you have a clear focus for your site, you can step on the accelerator, and achieve greater results, faster than ever before.

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Reciprocal Link Exchange  -  7 FREE Templates

This article provides the formula to successfully persuade a massive number of suitable websites to link to your site. Reciprocal links provide excellent advantages to a website.
This is a key promotional tool.

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Australian Email Spam Law - Anti-Spam

If you are a Website Marketing professional you must know what the Australian Anti-Spam Laws mean for you. Learn how to comply with the regulations so you can still use this incredibly efficient marketing tool.

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National Privacy Principles

National Privacy Principles (Extracted from the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 )

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Net Yourself a Bargain - A Guide for On Line Shopping

The number of people shopping online is growing at lightening speed and to service the market more and more E-tailors are offering great products and services.

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Technology Buying Decisions - What & When to Buy

The Digital revolution is evolving so fast that making Technology buying decisions about what to embrace and purchase makes your head spin.

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