Protx™ Becomes Sage Pay™

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 are […]

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 sale.
Con­versely if […]

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 sign-up […]

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 of […]

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