I’ve Been Away, But Now I’m Back
Over the May Spring Bank holiday I capitilised on the benefits of working for oneself and took an extended break in the wilds of the Lincolnshire countryside without having to get a holiday chit signed by my boss.
The modern wonders of mobile internet computing, my BlackBerry and cloud computing mean that even though I was [...]
Grab Your Twitter Name before Someone Else Does
If you’re protective about your company’s brand name and image then you’ve probably already got various permutations of their equivalent domain names including the all important .co.uk and .com ones. But what about your Twitter ID?
For a long time now any Internet consultant or web designer worth their salt, have being advising their clients to [...]
Sign-up to Facebook with your OpenID or Gmail login
Facebook has 200 million subscribers which despite it being the number one social networking site on the planet, means it still has a fair chunk of the human race to go.
So to make the task easier for people, Facebook has embraced the OpenID concept which means people that have other login details that are acceptable [...]
iomart accelerates managed hosting growth with acquisition of RapidSwitch
RapidSwitch the company who manages one of iNet’s dedicated Linux servers has been bought out. iNet reserves its RapidSwitch server for those web hosting clients that value the need for an SLA, firewall protection, regular tape back-ups and a 100% network uptime guarantee, to ensure the security [...]
Back in November 2006 Sage™, the well known accountancy and CRM software company; bought out the UK merchant services provider Protx for twenty million quid.
Protx was established in 2001 and provides online payment services for small and medium businesses (SMEs) in the UK, with a customer base of over 10,000 businesses. Protx online payment gateways [...]
How the Internet Ruined a Business
Over the last few months I’ve been witness to the demise of a client’s business purely because of negative chatter on the web.
If you run your own business you’ll be acutely aware that a positive word-of-mouth endorsement for your company or its products is worth its weight in gold when it comes to generating a [...]
I Will Pay You for a Link on Your Website
From time to time I receive emails out of the blue asking me how much I would charge for a text link on my site.
Perhaps you’ve received similar emails yourself and have been tempted. After all it sounds like easy money doesn’t it? But hang on a mo, there’s a catch, so before you [...]
What’s in a Name? Choose Your Domain Name Wisely
Your website’s domain name e.g. www.yourdomainname.co.uk says a lot about who you are and what your business does and is the ‘location address’ for your website on the web.
So, if your business is looking to get online for the first time with its own website, it’s worth putting a lot of thought into the choice [...]
Those Light Bulb Moments Really Make My Day
Don’t you just love it when all your hard work pays off and you can physically see the ‘penny drop’ with a client as they suddenly have one of those ‘light bulb moments?
That’s what happened last week when I spent a couple of hours training a client, a firm of solicitors in York, on their [...]
In the world of bricks and mortar retail shopping the location of a shop is quite often the key to its success if it’s going to benefit from passing footfall.
Similarly some types of businesses such as factories and distribution centres, understand it is essential to locate themselves close to a motorway junction in order [...]
