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Twitter is really doing the Biz
An email from Biz Stone arrives in my inbox as I sit wondering what to write
in this column. By chance Biz (one of the owners of Twitter) is announcing
the next phase for what has become a byword for social media.
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Border is irrelevant to good business
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
“Hopefully you are in business to stay in business and with today’s
challenging economic climate, we need to open our horizons to the
opportunities on our door step,” it said on the website — and I was
interested.
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Leading the charge for a better website
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
It astonishes me how cavalier some businesses and organisations are with
regard to their websites. This is their home on the web. At the very least,
it is their business card on the web.
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Online payment is a real pal of business
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
Taking payments online is hardly a new thing, but it's still a question I get
asked a lot by businesses.
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Blogging for new business in just seven simple steps
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Anecdotally, bloggers and business owners have long pointed to more enquiries,
improved visibility and growing reputation as signs that blogging was good
for their businesses.
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Is it Google Buzz or simply Google Zzzz?
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Less than a month ago Google launched its social networking and messaging tool
Google Buzz to a largely lukewarm reception.
Comments: 3
The unlikely persistence of email marketing
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Almost as soon as email was invented, it was used as a marketing instrument.
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Discover a wealth of free software
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
As a small business at this time of recession you may be looking for ways to
reduce the amount you are paying out for some computer packages like
Microsoft office or Adobe’s design studio.
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Is twitter starting to show its age?
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
A shiver ran round the corporate offices of technology, media and investment
companies last summer.
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Get the most out of your customer data
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Social networking — Twitter, Facebook and so on — is one way for a business to
get to know customers. It is cheap, simple and direct and its a good way to
have a conversation.
Comments: 3
Some simple steps towards tweet business success on the internet
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Good communication hinges on one point. The speaker must understand how the
message is being heard to be sure a clear channel has been established.
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Angelina Jolie, Britney and Beyonce nude, dirty tricks and the changing face of SEO
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
The likes of Beyonce Knowles, Angelina Jolie and Britney Spears have in the
past been victims of unscrupulous practitioners of the dark art known as
search engine optimisation (SEO).
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The bass-ics of developing new business ideas
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
I remember the day I took up the bass guitar. More to the point I remember the
expression on my parents’ faces, swiftly followed by the phrase, ‘it will
never last’.
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You can enjoy Tweet success, but keep it human
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
It is more than a year since the great Twitter adoption. Within a few months
Twitter stories were all over the media.
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Web can help with your entrepreneurial ambitions
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
January is traditionally a time when we dabble in a little personal reflection and commit to making changes in the year to come - from going to the gym, to quitting smoking to slipping the reins of employment and starting our very own businesses.
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Follow your market and not the Twitter crowd
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Twitter can distract and make you endlessly digress and from a business perspective - take the wind out of your passionate sales.
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Twitter trends predict 2010’s zeitgeist
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
The the only efficient way to keep track of Twitter comments and conversations
is the hashtag (#).
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Have a meaningful online conversation with clients
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
The net is a real place where people can go to learn, to talk to each other, to do business together. It is a bazaar ... It is a conversation.
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Digerati in the loop with know-all website
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
One must never see Twitter or any communication in fact, in a vacuum. Twitter
is merely a conduit for information. It gives up to the minute news and
views yes - but also links to digital content of all sorts.
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Knowing where you are with the new wave of mobile apps
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
In the majority of phones now there is some form of global positioning system
(GPS) to tell the world where you are.
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Getting your firm into the Thick of It
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
The third series of the brilliant BBC TV comedy The Thick of It has come to an
end.
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