A great tool that I’m getting more and more use out of is the online survey-manager web site SurveyMonkey.com
As any business person will tell you, “you need to know your market!” Common sense, no doubt, but how exactly does one go about gathering market information without paying oodles of cash to a research company?
Enter SurveyMonkey!
It [...]

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There are many challenges to face and overcome when starting up a business, from the administration to sales, marketing and PR.
O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures is sponsoring a Startup Camp to be held on the 10th and 11th of July this year for 6 to 8 startups that will be selected by June 20th from applicants.
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What is Web 2.0?
This is a question I get asked a lot and unfortunately, as is typical with all things Internet, there is no true fixed definition.
User-generated-content (UGC) and Asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX) are just two of the terms that get bandied around when trying to nail down just what Web 2.0 is.
Recently a [...]

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As anyone who has had a web site designed and developed can tell you, the process, from the technology required to what exactly the designer and developer actually do, is hazy at best. For a business to determine the Return on Investment (ROI) is near enough impossible.
Web site design and development is almost an art [...]

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Does your website provide a provision to verify delivery addresses via the British Forces Post Office?
In today’s The Independant newspaper, a reader’s Letter to the Editor raises the point that the British Forces Post Office address system is different to the conventional UK postcode system.
Most, if not all, e-commerce websites have a postcode verification system [...]

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A really useful website I recently landed on is ‘How Stuff Works’. As the name of the site suggests, it covers everything you’d ever like to know about cars, motorbikes, alternative fuels, werewolves, Google Phone, fleas, ghosts and a whole bunch of other stuff you didn’t know that you didn’t know!!
Just a few of the [...]

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Young kids today face a completely different world to that experienced by their parents. In fact, even only a short time as 10 years ago kids weren’t exposed to the kind of media they now have easy access to.
Always-on access to the Internet has brought many risks to children and these are now to be [...]

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Last week I wrote about why every web-site owner should be tracking their web-site visitors using web analytics.
This week I look at the manner in which site visitor traffic information can be collected.
There are two ways of collecting traffic data from a web site:

Log files
Page-tagging

Web servers generate reports about every site they host. These are [...]

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Microsoft extended its web strategy by unveiling Office Live Workspace (beta), an online sharing repository for Office documents. Not what many thought would be Microsoft’s answer to Google Docs, this service actually extends Office to the online space.
To use OLW, you need to have a registered version of MS Office 2003 or 2007. The site [...]

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Getting a web designer to build you a web site is like buying any other service – you get what you pay for.
You could pay anywhere from tens of thousands of dollars to just a few dollars for a new web site today.
However, by choosing the cheapest designer, are you really getting what you need? [...]

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Facebook is the Internet’s current darling. Everywhere you go people are talking about it, about how they’re finding long lost friends and getting back in touch with family around the world. Practically everyone I know has a Facebook presence, including some in Third World countries where good Internet access is sporadic at the best of [...]

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Spam can hit our inboxes throughout the day, creating annoying distractions that force us to have to scan it and delete it, where time could be better spent elsewhere.
According to statistics reported on page 6 of Singapore’s TODAY paper on August 13, 2007:

6 trillion business email messages were sent worldwide last year
49 minutes is spent [...]

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