It can be very difficult for small business owners, especially start-up soloprenuers to get a steady stream of new business. Websites help and do generate leads, as does social media…
Have you ever had to fire a customer? Or backed out of a project at the proposal stage? “The customer is always right” is the salesman’s mantra going back probably…
When I get an idea for a blog post I write it as a note on my iPhone and then e-mail it to myself. One such idea came to me…
Stop! Before you read my post you need to read this article - Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore. Come back here after you’ve…
When I talk to small business people about creating or updating their website I come across the same mistakes over and over again. Here are the top 5: 1. Falling…
Like most small business owners I've made plenty of mistakes with getting my company off the ground. Here are 5 of the biggest. 1. Expecting to hit home runs every…
When I was younger, oh so much younger than today, I worked for a now defunct, small manufacturing company in Nottingham called “Trent Valve”. Trent made a range of conventional…
Imagine buying that awesome 60” flat-screen HDTV only to find it was DOA out of the box. You’d be mad and probably take it straight back to the store and…
My last blog post was on 5 website mistakes made by small business. Over the past week I’ve been thinking about another one that needs attention: the assumption by some…
I first wrote about this topic in May of this year (seems so much longer ago then that!) and I still include a segment in my Internet Basics Seminar. The…