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How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love My IT Support
Introducing Stephen Hamilton! Many of you may know Stephen from his myriad enlightened comments on SBO over the past 12 months or so. Today we welcome his maiden guest post on a topic that many of us find pretty darn annoying…getting decent IT help.
I’ve worked in IT for most of my working life. [...]
Blog Me, Amadeus!
Content Beats SEO
Search engine optimisation (SEO) can improve your website traffic.
But each time Google changes its ‘secret recipe’ (algorithms), you may lose benefits.
Content which solves customer problems is emerging as a cheaper, more reliable alternative to SEO. And the best way to create such content is blogging.
Free Blogging Resource
I’ve spent years getting a grip on blogging.
By [...]
What’s with Twitter?
Is Twitter relevant to your small business? Guest blogger Joanna Maxwell shares her experiences with the popular microblogging tool and explains how it’s helped her business.
It seems you can’t turn around these days without tripping over a reference to Twitter. Most people have at least a hazy idea that it has something to do with ‘microblogging in [...]
And in the small biz corner: technology!
Angie’s back! Today she’s written a great post about how small businesses can use mobile technology, social media and viral marketing to compete with bigger organisations.
In my first post, Wired for…Everything, one of our readers raised an interesting discussion point around small businesses using mobile technology.
The question was about whether the accessibility of today’s technology tools [...]
Naming Rights
When I began this blog, I resolved to name organisations only if praising them. I was determined not to use this privileged communication platform to snipe at firms who’d done me wrong. But lately, my internet service provider (ISP) has been driving me crazy (and jeopardising my business) with what I believe to be very [...]
First, the Good News!
On snaring this blogging gig, my first instinct was to discredit every shonky supplier who’d ever crossed me. The question was, what to cover first:
The sturdy, black hair in my special fried rice?
The too-thin tin my builder used to gild my roof?
The gob of machine grease in my pack of sliced almonds?
On reflection, however, I [...]
