‘Small Business Articles’ Archives
Facebook Social Cocktail #2
Right lets break this down into managable sections …. Your Business. By now you have already realised that there are many platforms available to you to enable you to reach your target market, google, forums, blogging, twitter, facebook, digg, tumblr, squidoo, and [Read More]
How to Make Sales
Some tips that work for me are: Use a few products in front of people. If you sell clothing, wear it, if you sell polishing mitts show your mates, colleagues etc what a great job it does. Get the T-shirt. I used to pet sit (for my sins) and wore t-shirts with the business [Read More]
Small Business Start Up Overview
Business plan, this is a retail business after all so first things first, you will need a business plan. This should contain information regarding your target market, who they are, age range, gender, as much information as you can get, even down to what type of job they are [Read More]
The Start of an E-commerce Store
I thought I would spend a bit of time writing about how my business got up and running, along with sharing some hints and tips. I started thinking about getting my business up and running over 7 years ago. It took a long time in the planning, I suppose I could have set it [Read More]
Domain Name Registration
OK some on here know me some don’t I am a host and domain registrar and have been doing it since 1994 actually before the UK namespace was controlled by Nominet in 1996 I will write a couple of domain articles but for this one I am going to concentrate on UK domains [Read More]
Hosting ~ An Insight
All hosts are the same aren’t they ? Well the way people research hosting you would think so because so many fall into the same traps. Firstly lets review what a host actually is A host is a provider of server space where you can load your site and it will be [Read More]
SSL ~ What is it ?
If you are interested in your clients security then SSL is a must, there is no legal reason to have SSL installed on your site however certain payment processors insist on it i.e. google checkout What does it do ? Well SSL encrypts data sent between your browser and the [Read More]
