Websites In Business

Invoice Like A Pro: Examples and Best Practices

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:28:35 +0000

If you thought invoices were a boring but necessary piece of paper think again. Smashing magazine looks at the look and content of invoices and offers some great ideas.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/05/invoice-like-a-pro/

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Setting Up Systems To Making Blogging Easy

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:50:05 +0000

First there was blogging, then Facebook, Twitter, Friend Feed, then another blog etc… So many places to put thought, ideas and business promotions. So many logins, passwords to remember.

Luckily there is a way to make things a lot easier and that is a site called Posterous.com. More on Posterous.com soon.

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Quick Twitter Links

admin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:23:14 +0000

Quick Tip: If you would like to allow people to quickly twitter about your site add a link similar to the one below to your pages. The + sign is used to represent spaces.

Twitter about this site

When a twitter user clicks on the link it pre-fills their status update for them.. Try it out here Twitter about this site - test link

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I hate being a Sales Person

admin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:06:29 +0000

There is a new item on our site www.businessinsites.co.uk about the mindset needed to sell your services. See I hate being a sales person.

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Getting Free Advertising Online

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:04:44 +0000

In hard times it is nice to get something for nothing - How about advertising your business online for free just by taking a few minutes of your day to complete your details on a range of business listing sites. Starting with Google's Local Business listings the Free Advertising Article on BusinessInSites.co.uk will get you started with step by step instructions. Visit the article.

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Help and Advice moved to New Site

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:48:22 +0000

We have moved our free help and advice to our partner site BusinessInSites.co.uk. On the new site you will find a range of action plans and videos to help you market your business online.

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Are you legal?

admin — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:15:26 +0000

I hate those direct mailers that start off with in 2003 the {insert government name} passed a law banning {insert something easy for a company to do by accident} … Are you sure you are legal? Just give us your credit card details…

So please note I am note selling anything as I start of on the legal scare tactic.

There are a couple of court cases going at present where businesses have had a website created using copyright protected images. Even though the company didn't know their web designer had used them. It is worth checking you do not have any copyright issue on your site with your design.

Ideally the images should have come from a stock photo library like www.istockphoto.com and the correct licence fee has been paid. You also need to watch out that the licence is correct. For example if you add an image to a T-shirt and sell the T-shirt you might need a different licence.

To follow a discussion about one of the cases see…

Small Business Issues - Copyright on Images

There are also many cases where small business owners have bought websites in good faith with images included that are subsequently contested. Corbis’s legal representatives claim that … “Your lack of knowledge of the source of an image …

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Negative/Excluded Keywords in Yahoo Search Marketing

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:44:52 +0000

One of the many painful things about using Yahoo Search Marketing (when you are used to Adwords) is finding out how to exclude keywords or phrases from triggering your adverts. For example if you bid on ink but only sell red and blue ink you might wish to exclude green orange etc. Not a particularly good example but slightly better than widgets.

Unfortunately what is really simple in adwords (add a keyword/phrase with a minus (-) sign in front) takes 7 or 8 clicks on Yahoo SM. This video takes you though the clicks needed to find the right place.

PS. If you were bidding on Ink I would have a very long list of negative keywords or the traffic is going to be very poor quality

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Adding Google Maps To Your Website

admin — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:32:52 +0000

If you take a look at our contact us page you will notice we have added a google map of our location right into the web page. Despite having a nice little guide book free with a Sunday paper (a mini 'Dummies' guide) this was no task for a dummy. While it did not take long, it was by no means straight forward.

Initially I added a little popup with our opening times on which was fun, now feeling brave I have added the 'to here' and 'from here' directions links, which is much more useful. I will create a little 'how to' video but it may be beyond the average business person.

Google - you still have some work to do on this to make it accessible to the non-techie designer, even a techie had problems!

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Sitemaps and Sitemaps - Can You Spot The Difference?

admin — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:57:26 +0000

There are two types of sitemaps for two different types of visitor. Do you have just the one type on your site and are you missing out? If you use the Google Webmaster system which one is it referring to? All these questions and more explained in this 3 minute video.

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