September,2009

How to use expat websites to your advantage

Expatriates love the internet: it provides essential information for those facing a daunting move abroad and it keeps those who already live a zillion miles from home, ‘connected’. It makes sense therefore that if you are [...]

Is your website a client magnet …… or a trampoline?!

Does your website consistently attract qualified visitors who spend quality time looking through your site before contacting you or subscribing to something? Or do visitors just ‘bounce’ off the home page after a few seconds never [...]

Closing the sale, as easy as ABC – Always Be Closing

I’ve often told the sales people working for me that the longest 30 seconds of their life will be after they have asked for a sale. Time after time I emphasise the fact that if you [...]

1,233 miles, 18 home businesses and 5 clear trends

Last week Enterprise Nation, the home business website, went on a roadtrip. Starting in Scotland, the touring team traveled south to meet and film home based businesses in what will become a mini documentary charting the [...]

5 Tips for Getting More from LinkedIn

Everyone is talking Twitter at the moment, but let’s not forget some of the other social networks. This is an article from John Janstch on one of the originals… Linked In. A pretty common question these [...]

How to write a post it note business plan

Business planning is not something that you should do once. It should be something that you are constantly doing through the course of your business life. Your business plan is your roadmap, it’s your way of [...]

New business start ups still happening despite the recession

The belief that the recession is the perfect time to start a business seems to be ringing true with entrepreneurs in the UK. Ninety eight thousand new businesses were launched in the first quarter of 2008 [...]

Winning locally… all hail the business community

One of the things the heavy snow did at the start of the year was to draw everyone’s attention to their local community. Neighbours who hadn’t previously communicated started clearing pathways together, retailers and businesses tried [...]

What we can learn from Julie (the online dragon investor)

Last night the BBC showed their online version of the Dragons Den which has been running for the last few months. The Online Den has a couple of twists on the standard BBC show that we [...]

Inspiration from Moonfruit founder Wendy Tan White

Wendy Tan-White is the founder of Moonfruit, a highly successful internet company which allows users to create their own websites. She is most recently famed for creating one of the most successful social media marketing campaigns [...]

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