PostsHMRC plan to reduce overhead by 7th February 2013 1:55 PM “They're probably doing less routine chasing of very small businesses - that'd reduce their costs but hardly affect tax take.” Good point... right off to empty the Corp tax account and double the dividend  HMRC plan to reduce overhead by 7th February 2013 12:46 PM As business owners, it's always nice if you can shave some money off your running costs, but spare a moment for our HMRC, who are aiming at reducing their annual bill by Will HMV be able to change direction? 12 month update - HMV calls in administrators 7th February 2013 11:46 AM “The administrators of HMV have said that 66 of the music and DVD retailer's stores will close over the next two months. The affected stores employ 930 staff, Deloitte said. Last week, it was confirmed that about 190 jobs had been shed across HMV's head office and distribution network. BBC News - HMV announces 66 store closures” So the restructuring begins to see if HMV stands a chance of surviving as a bricks and mortar retailer... fingers crossed Half Of Small Businesses Never Update Their Listings Online 6th February 2013 10:49 AM “...maybe remembering to update listings is the last thing they worry about and tends to be neglected?” Without a doubt this is a big part of it. But if you are pinged and reminded to update your details, and then decide to ignore, or haven't updated contact details so you never get reminded, then maybe directories (me included), social media platforms etc should be more ruthless and simply delete the data. Would at least clean up the search engine index with a lot of unwanted rubbish. But will confess to needing to get my own house in order  (dumping 220,000 old listings tonight )Half Of Small Businesses Never Update Their Listings Online 6th February 2013 10:45 AM “but atleast for pages on facebook and LinkedIn company pages. Right?” Hi Alice, agree totally. If they are genuinely aiming themselves at business users, then I think they should have an annual verification. If nothing else, prompts you to return if you've not been back for 12 months. If businesses don't verify, then dump their listings, they're obviously no longer valid About me goes independent - anyone using it? 6th February 2013 8:56 AM About.me the personal profile service has decided to split with it's former owner AOL. “Just a few short days after our public launch in December 2010, we shared the exciting news that we Half Of Small Businesses Never Update Their Listings Online 5th February 2013 9:36 PM Being in the directory market, this is no great surprise to me, and although a US survey, I think it's pretty standard across the globe. Survey: Half Of Small Businesses Never Update Their Listings Online So you move office, different phone number, it's amazing how many people never bother to even try to clean up their online marketing footprint. Most bigger directories should ask you to reverify at least annually, giving you a chance to update info, but with FB profiles, Google+ etc it is becoming a bigger and bigger challenge to manage your online details. how to improve PR? 5th February 2013 5:15 PM lol that's cheating, a SEO guru in disguise how to improve PR? 5th February 2013 1:44 PM “Generally it Asking for links - you want how much??? 5th February 2013 1:28 PM “...but never found my link as it was on a remote link page with hundreds and thousands of other links” This is the problem, and is the old classic link exchange model, where we all had "links" pages or resources pages. Personally with my non professional SEO hat on, I'd say link exchanging is pretty much pointless these days, and there are better ways of doing it. Naturally via Decent content, news, articles, social media etc |
