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PostsSo its not all doom and gloom for the newly set up company... 4th October 2011 5:23 PM At last something postive  Interesting point about different university culture  Stuck for a business name...? 4th October 2011 3:53 PM I'll confess to only just getting that one  Lowering the tone a bit, there's a white van I see regularly around my town, "Doggy Style - Mobile Grooming" Benefits of Local Business Online Listings 4th October 2011 3:41 PM “Surely you would know ? (I am looking at your signature)” Yup, we were obviously feeling charitable that day... “Come on Robert, that was a poorly veiled sales pitch  If you want to pitch your directory, use the village market!” QR Codes & QR Code Marketing 4th October 2011 10:05 AM Building on from hdm's QR code info, saw this interesting post, how to use QR codes in marketing. I may have give this QR codes craze a go! "QR Code Uses The uses for QR codes are endless, especially for marketing purposes. Consider these possibilities: 1. Facebook Why can't SEO's be performance based? 4th October 2011 9:50 AM “Had a phonecall today from an SEO expert today, it went like this... "Hello" "hello" "what's your name?" "why?" "I'm so and so and we've been tracking your website" "Oh why?" "because your not ranking high for certain search terms" "whose search terms?" "ours" "not my search terms but yours?” That's the trouble, it's seen as easy money. These companies are all about having large low skilled script reading sales guys, to try and sucker in as many small businesses as they can. Then it's annual contracts and dubious SEO investigation on your site, and working to keywords they reckon they can optimise, not what you actually need or want. Ask any half technical question and you will get referred to a "consultant". Once you are onboard, its ongoing monthly fees and ropey reports. But like most industries, there are some good guys out there, and they don't need to cold call, send you spam or rely on annual contracts Are Small Business surviving the financial crisis? 4th October 2011 9:36 AM “I think if most people that run businesses were honest, the majority would say their not business minded, most have never attended any kind of business studies of any kind and even those that do still seem to go to the wall. For me a lot depends on luck, it dosent matter how much you've spent on advertising, websites or attending whatever business seminar. If the phone dosen't ring you have no business ”Great and honest post Barney! I think luck does play a part although I'm not 100% convinced that not attending any business studies or having an academic business background is necessarily a bad thing. I think it takes a certain kind of person to make the transition from a safe paid job to self employment, and this can't be taught, it's down to your personality and outlook on life. I think those that survive are the ones that learn to become business minded the fastest, with an element of luck, plus the ability to adapt products and services to try and seek out what little market there is. It must be incredible pressure though to see self employment as the only alternative if you can't get a job, rather than being a genuine choice. I would guess the failure rate of these businesses would be higher than average  Google Panda Bears 4th October 2011 9:14 AM Well as Google and China fell out over privacy issues, China has given Google a bunch of Panda Bears to try and patch things up. As everyone loves Panda Bears, Google very kindly updates the world with some Panda Updates, to let us know how Chow Chow, Search and Gmail are getting on... Sorry SEOMaster, post counting just to get a link is a big no no.... SAAB are broke, Moben goes bust now Habitat stores close... 3rd October 2011 10:52 AM Swedish Automobile, owner of SAAB are flogging off their luxury Spyker sports car business for $44 million, in a bid to raise cash and keep the brand afloat as well as looking for a new CEO. Its like watching the demise of the RoverGroup all over again.. Will they pull it off or I wonder if this is this the beginning of the end? Never been a SAAB owner, but they've always seemed like good cars, maybe not the image of German brands, but a better one than our beloved Rover Google Analytics goes realtime, oh and introduces a $150k per year version! 3rd October 2011 10:40 AM There are changes afoot in Google Analytics land. They are moving to realtime reporting, as opposed to the current 24 hour lag, so GA is now getting even better Google Analytics Blog: What |
