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Technology affecting Small Businesses now and in the Future

Here’s a few tidbits of news I have recently picked up from some of the technology sites I follow which I see having an impact on Small Businesses both now and in the future… The fun of 4G in the UK 4G is coming… eventually. When it does it will have a profound impact on [...]

Small Business Accounting Woking: The Challenge – To Get Ranked for Small Business Accounting Woking

Small Business Accounting Woking: A Challenge in Getting Ranked Small Business Accounting Woking is not what you’d call a typical area that I could choose for a blog post… I’m not into accounting and I’m not from Woking, but following a discussion with someone who works in the small business accounting woking area, I wanted [...]

Google Places Reviews – There are Reviews… and then there are Reviews.

December 16, 2011

Google Places Reviews: Reviews make a difference. Getting reviews and testimonials from customers has always a great way of substantiating the quality of your products and services. Word of mouth marketing has always been seen as being the most reliable indicator of how good something is. However, in the past, it was very hard to [...]

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How Apple’s Siri could MAKE local SEO…

November 23, 2011

Siri is here… or rather it’s here, kind of. I was recently provided, by a good friend – Jo Dodds, to a blog post on entrepreneur.com entitled “How Apple’s Siri Could Destroy Local SEO“. Now as a self confessed gadget geek who has recently become a bit of an apple fan boy, I’ve been keeping [...]

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What is SEO? Getting Started with SEO

November 21, 2011

What is SEO exactly? SEO or Search Engine Optimisation, like many things, does what it says on the tin! It is a technique applied to pages of a website with the aim of moving these pages higher up on the Google Home Page for a Search. The higher up the list of websites that Google [...]

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Google Places – Images & Reviews Matter (and other stuff we already new!)

November 15, 2011

I’m sure you know I love Google Places – how can you not love something that any small business can use to drive their business on line without any real cost… but in my search for more reasons why you should not jut claim your listing, but complete it fully (with pictures and stuff), and [...]

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How To Use QR Codes

November 14, 2011

How to use QR Codes – A guide to getting started I’ve been involved in several projects over the last few years involving QR codes, but still get asked the same question regularly – please tell me me how to use QR codes. QR codes offer some great potential and they continue to grow in [...]

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Google Places Optimisation: Maximising Benefit

November 7, 2011

Google Places Optimisation isn’t as difficult as you think As you may have gathered, the Local Web Design Company really likes Google Places. It’s free, it’ll get you on the front page of Google for your local area without too much effort, and it’s not going to be a ‘flash in the pan’ system that [...]

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Google Places – Practice What I Preach

November 4, 2011

Google Places is the hot place to eat! As the Local Web Design Company gets to grips with the market opportunities out in the UK, we’ve been fortunate to spend some time on the road. As a consequence, we usually find ourselves in a new town where we don’t know a good place to eat. [...]

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Free Web Design – A False Economy?

November 3, 2011

Free Web Design – is it worth it? The internet is definitely the place to be nowadays. It’s slowly pervading every aspect of life, and with mobile internet expected to dominate over the next few years as tablets and more sophisticated smart phones give us online access wherever, anyone not online should be considering it [...]

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