Postal Strike Advice for eCommerce Sites
For site owners the postal strikes could cause significant headaches, time to include a strategy so that your customers informed and avoid disruption where possible.
Some good advice on the ebusiness blog for ecommerce site owners and tips from Business Link… Continue reading
Copyright & Intellecutal Property
We often cover the topics of copyright and intellectual property when looking at innovation ideas. This is an important area to consider if getting a website created to launch your product or idea.
There is a useful article that covers the main elements you need to be aware of, written by two Business Link advisers on the ebusiness blog
Business Link Open Evening A Success
Went along to the Business Link Open Evening in Fareham this week, was great to see so many businesses coming along to hear how eBusiness and web technologies can improve their businesses.
One of the sessions included a search engine optimisation check, run by James Cope the adviser specialising in eBusiness, it gave some really useful tips on how to choose search… Continue reading
SEO 2.0 & Analytics - a success at Reading
The first of Business Link’s SEO 2.0 and Google Analytics seminar series was a great success in Reading, with 5 more to go in Brighton, Maidstone, Cobham, Oxford and Southampton.
Feedback from the event was really good with delegates getting a lot of useful information to help develop their online presence and take steps to achieve search engine success.
If you still have yet to book a place… Continue reading
Will Google loose to Bing?
In the UK Google has been successful in growing and maintaining a massive market share of searches, but is all that about to change?
Microsoft is soon to launch a new engine - Bing - http://www.bing.com/ComingSoon we’ve seen new releases and improvements to Live Search from MS before so what’s so different about Bing? Well it is claimed that this engine is an innovation to search engine technology created as a decision engine… Continue reading
Is my site performing well?
This is one of the best questions a website owner can ask themselves, but not many do. Those that have often either do not know how to go about finding out or the questions to ask if they could.
I would suggest that there are three basic measures, but all of these require data from your site. If you do not get data, ask your website developer or host if they… Continue reading
To Blog or not to Blog?
Blogging is a topic that lots of small business owners have heard about, some have thought about, but even less have actually done.
There clearly are benefits to blogging, some professional bloggers doing nothing else and make good livings out of it. For those business owners who struggle to find time to eat and sleep the benefits are are often outweighed by the investment in time it takes to build and keep… Continue reading
TRANSFORM Process to encourage Hampshire entrepreneurs launched.
The Hampshire Economic Partnership Innovation & Enterprise Task Group has recently launched its TRANSFORM process for the encouragement and support of innovation amongst entrepreneurs in Hampshire.
The process has been developed to help you turn a creative idea into a valuable business asset. Best of all, it is totally free and completely confidential!
The TRANSFORM… Continue reading
Want to get noticed by Google? Here are some ways to do it.
When a search engine’s ‘bot trawls the Internet, it is looking for certain information that it can feed into its cleverly formulated algorithms that determine a site’s ranking. Search engines look for a technically well-structured site, fresh content and relevant in-bound links so you need to provide this information for them in the correct form.
E-Commerce expected to grow
As consumers and businesses in the South East look to find ways to save costs and source cheaper products, more and more of them are turning to the web.
The Times has reported online sales could grow to account for almost 15 per cent of the overall retail sector by 2012, rising from £20 billion today to £50 billion.
Pricewaterhouse Coopers who conducted the report identified several issues… Continue reading