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YouTube, Baby Delivery & How It Can Benefit Your Business!

May 5, 2009 — 3:24 pm

I’ve recently been away for a few days and hadn’t connected to the internet so wasn’t aware of the news story of the dad who had used YouTube to help deliver his baby son.  Basically he’d watched the videos as a precaution when his wife had started to feel discomfort but little did he know that the knowledge he’d gained would actually deliver his son.

So this got me thinking, if an instructional video on YouTube can be used to help someone deliver a baby where does the power of the internet stop?

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How Necessary Is a Website?

April 23, 2009 — 11:25 am

By Paul Selibio

A website, interchangeably referred to as “online business card” or “web address”, has tremendous potential in getting your message and idea across global communities, which other promotional media may be found wanting.  Today, it has catapulted marketing into the realm of content, audio and video plus person to person interaction carried over chat rooms still made possible by an accessible online address, transcending time and space.

With no territorial boundaries, having a website is an indispensable tool for an entrepreneur who wishes to bring his products or service to global attention.

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Jump Starting a Small Business Presence Online

April 22, 2009 — 11:10 am

Author: Wendy Maki

The traffic statistics page for Robert’s new small business web site starts to load.  He scrolls down the page, dismayed.  Just one or two visitors daily. Robert sits back and sighs. Most were probably curious friends and family.

When his internet-savvy nephew suggested promoting his small business on the Internet, Robert designed a simple but attractive five-page small business web site.  He added meta-tags and keywords, and waited for the search engines.

Robert wonders, “What now?”

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An Alternative to Microsoft Office – save £200 per user

April 20, 2009 — 8:58 am

A new small business faces a many spending decisions around infrastructure, facilities and professional services.   Of these the IT setup costs can be a significant portion.   One area of expense is software and in particular licensing each employees PC with the Micorosft Office suite of applications (including Word, Excel and PowerPoint).  It’s important for most businesses to be able to create and exchange Word and Excel documents and so this may seem like a spending area that has no other choice.

However an “Open Source” alternative exists that can be downloaded called OpenOffice.org and is available from here:

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How to select a computer support company

March 3, 2009 — 11:34 am

When a computer problem occurs why do a lot of companies who provide IT support fail to focus on the impact to their client’s business rather than simply on the computer problem?

Computers are now an integral element of every business throughout the land and sadly they occasionally go wrong! So it’s obvious that computer problems can result in serious problems and hardship for a business.

As a business owner and/or PC user, you can often be left feeling frustrated and lonely when you encounter a problem. In fact I know that’s how I felt when my original consultancy business had problems and I was left in a vacuum by those who supported me not understanding the impact on my business.

This problem is further compounded by the findings in a recent article that stated 22% of SMEs believe that when they take into account lost time and productivity that they’d lost £5,000 worth of business per annum. Oh that’s OK because the cost of IT support will be far greater than the £5,000 lost! Not so. For the majority of SMEs the cost of IT support is significantly less than £5,000.

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Failing technology costs UK SMEs £5k a year

March 1, 2009 — 8:53 pm

small_light_bulb_web_130x981It may seem obvious that technology can impact a business but how many businesses actually assess what impact poor or failing technology has cost their business. Without wishing to be controversial I’d estimate that less than 1% of SMEs understand the financial impact.  Technology can be a fantastic enabler but it can equally be a train on costs without you even noticing.

I came across the following on a website called SmallBizod and it demonstrates the point very well.  A link to the full article can be found at the end of this posting.

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Did you know home based businesses are expanding?

— 8:06 pm

Great news for Home businesses…..why does this kind of thing not get reported by the media?

Enterprise Nation claim 90% of home businesses are making expansion plans despite the UKs financial challenges.  57% are planning to extend their product/service and 30% are the_sky_is_the_limit_profit_150x94planning to work partnership with other businesses.  It may not be a massive figure but 7% plan on hiring extra staff or outsourcing work to help with their growth.

For home businesses it’s important that they don’t simply launch their growth plans without making sure that they have key foundations in place.  Even if they’re already in place they should be reviewed to ensure they can cope with the growth – if not make sure they’re changed otherwise they could undermine growth.

Two areas worth considering are data and outsourcing.

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