Archive for September, 2009

Sep-29th-2009

Facebook bad for business?

Many business are using face book to drive traffic and sale to their site. But many business are also having problems with staff using face book while they should be working. Dragon Theo Paphitis recently wrote an article about why he was banning the social networking site at his work.
On the contrary James Caan [...]

Sep-29th-2009

How to promote your website for free

If your still feeling the pinch and you want to continue to promote your website it doesn’t need to cost you a penny and that’s even if you don’t have any technical knowledge.
Unless you have a CMS or a blog on your site updating and adding further pages or content to your site requires [...]

Sep-25th-2009

Jaguar to shut down 1 plant out of 2 in the Midlands

Jaguar Land Rover will be closing one it’s plants in the West Midlands by the middle of next decade. The company wants to shut one of the two plants in the midlands Castle Bromwich plant in Birmingham or a factory in nearby Solihull.
The counter balance 800 new jobs will be created in Merseyside at the [...]

Sep-21st-2009

Coming out of the Resession?

It look like the UK is currently coming out of the recession, slowly but surly business are starting to pick up orders are coming in which is great to see.
It’s important that businesses don’t then decide to take their “foot off the pedal”. We noticed that companies that decided to cut back on marketing during [...]

Sep-10th-2009

Making Money From Scratch Part I

When I came up with the idea of creating a series of posts based around earning online from nothing, the first thing that came to mind was providing a service.  In business, those that have the ability to provide relevant and sought after services will always have business, and for those that can do it [...]

Sep-9th-2009

What Does Your Brand Represent?

One of my favourite exercises in branding and working with brand strategy is a kind of reality vs. desire task involving thinking on a critical level about your brand identity now and where you want it to be later down the line.
As an online business owner it can sometimes be easy to blur the distinctions [...]

Sep-7th-2009

Why The Indian Economy Will Suffer At The Top

The Indian economy is on track to grow to become one of the world’s largest. I read a humourous thread over at DigitalPoint forums where an Indian member has posted with a detectable trace of anger that he was looking forward to outsourcing to the US for online projects.
The main reason India in particular [...]

Sep-5th-2009

Making Money From Scratch Series

I’ve started working on a series of posts built around the topic of making money online from scratch. Over the course of the week, I’ll post business ideas and online strategies to make money with little or no investment to begin with, to emphasise the wealth of possibilities available online.
The first part of the [...]

Sep-4th-2009

Copyright – Know Your Rights

Working online can often raise a number of legal questions, and one that I’ve found to be particularly relevant to online entrepreneurs is copyright.  It’s a common scenario: we provide work for someone online of an intellectual nature, or we hire someone to do the same for us.  So what’s the deal, and what can [...]

Sep-3rd-2009

Facebook – Why Its Business Model Is In Danger?

Facebook might be riding high at the moment in the upper echelons of the social networking world, but I’ve got one prediction that the market won’t want to hear and it might just spark the collapse of the Web2.0 bubble as far as new social startups are concerned.
The impression of facebook is a simplistic, content [...]

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