Jaimie Dobson Internet Consultant

Sorry, I Don’t Do Email!

In today’s business world most people have the staple tools needed to conduct business with other people on a daily basis.
Such tools inevitably include the obligatory diary (electronic or otherwise), a pen, a notepad (electronic or otherwise), a telephone (landline and mobile), a car or some other form of vehicle and of course a computer [...]

Before Working with a Web Designer: Read this!

At a business networking event this week I got talking to a partner of a large firm of accountants who told me that his business was mid way through the process of having its website refreshed with a local team of web designers.
“How’s it going?” I casually asked, to which I was subjected to a [...]

Only 8% of People Know What a Browser Is Google Discovers

In my line of work, it’s easy to forget that often the most of basic of terminology is lost on the average man in the street as Google recently found out when it carried out a random survey of people in New York’s Times Square with the question “What is a Browser?”
Watch the video survey [...]

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 [...]

How I Hijacked a Google Adwords Account

Now before you start getting too excited by reaching for your gun expecting a capture reward after having read that headline, there’s no need to panic!
Nothing illegal went on here, however technically, I did hijack a Google Adwords™ account and take it away from its top level Administrator and give it back to its [...]

Thanks, But No Thanks Under What Circumstances Should You Turn Down Business?

I’ve just turned down the biggest contract of the year so far for my business.
The client wanted to give us the work and we were excited at pitching for it. However despite travelling up and down the country several times whilst negotiating the deal and having beaten off the competition, I decided to walk [...]

Domain Disputes

My business runs a couple of managed servers which are dedicated exclusively to our clients. Across these servers we host about 250 websites which between them have nearly 500 domain names mapped to them.
That’s an awful lot of hosting accounts to manage and an even greater number of domain names to control on behalf of [...]

We’re Taking Our Bat and Ball Home!

A little while ago we were lucky enough to win a new contract from one of our competitors. The management and improvement of a website for a high profile firm of Yorkshire solicitors.
What this project involved was migrating the client’s existing website from their current developer’s hosting, building in some new features (such as a [...]

A Fair Days Pay for a Fair Days Work

Before you read further you should note that this post is a ‘rant’ about an issue that we’ve experienced in our business.
I want to get it off my chest so read this post as you find it, nothing more and nothing less.
Consider yourself warned. Here goes…
Some months ago we got an enquiry from a [...]

Fluvial Research Group Website Launched for Leeds University

Over the last few years we’ve worked with the School of Earth and Environment at Leeds University on a number of web based database projects: I’m proud to announce the launch of their latest project which has been developed by my team at iNet Engineers.
The new Fluvial Research Group (FRG) website may not be pretty: [...]