SEOmoz, a Search Engine Optimization specialist offers SEO tips and guidance through their web site at www.seomoz.org. They’ve also just released the results of their Web 2.0 Awards competition, the results of which can be found here.
What’s interesting and very useful for web entrepreneurs is that there are a lot of categories covered, each with […]

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What version to use for a Joomla project is a question that requires some thought, primarily regarding the functionality you want your Joomla site to have.
Joomla 1.0x has been around since about April 2004, with the latest version 1.015 released on 22nd February 2008, and because of this it has a large number of […]

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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.
Click […]

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It’s not often a great book like The Photoshop Anthology is given away free but Sitepoint have teamed up with 99Designs to do just that!
The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks and Techniques is being given away free as a downloadable PDF from the Sitepoint web site, but only until Thursday 12th June so […]

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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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Social networking is all the rage at the moment with social networks like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace in the news almost daily whether it be about the latest subscription numbers or who is making a buyout bid for how much (AOL bought Bebo in March for $850 million)!
All the social networks have a ‘Groups’ facility […]

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SlideShare is the YouTube of the presentation world; it’s possible to find a presentation on practically any subject and many of these are very, very good. I’ve used the site a number of times to get a better understanding of certain topics and create better presentations of my own.
From the SlideShare site:
SlideShare is the best […]

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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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We’re all trying to be more aware of our impact on the environment; Recycling household waste, using paper-bags in place of plastic etc. But have you given a thought yet to Green Hosting?
Data centers, like web site hosts, use a lot of power for their systems and server farms to keep all our web sites […]

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A new site, still in Beta, I read about in today’s Times newspaper is property web site Zoopla! The home page proudly states:
FREE value estimates and more on over 26 million homes
Creating a more transparent marketplace for property through community participation
I had a play about with the site and it certainly seems to be accurate, […]

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In the Tim Ferriss interview with Michael Gerber (author of The E-Myth Revisited) on Escaping The Entrepreneurial Seizure, Michael introduces the three step process for building an automated business system.
As an entrepreneur, the focus here is not on working in the company (being the technician), nor is it about managing the company. The entrepreneur […]

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When you know that something hot is happening right now and you want to support it, here’s how you can get a good looking, self funding, great work promoting website up and running within a day.
In the example, we’ll use www.oneandonlymadonna.com, which is the site we have set up for our friend Evelyne Brink, […]

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One cool, affordable, and effective way of marketing your services is to run a free teleconference for your current or potential clients and customers.
By running a seminar, you put yourself forward as an expert in the field, whilst reaching many many people at once. This certainly raises your profile, and allows you to serve […]

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If you’re a person who takes a lot of video and posts them up on your web-site, blog or social network then Blinkx may be of interest.
Blinkx Ad Hoc is an easy way to display ads on your posted videos and, following the pay-per-click model, any time an ad is clicked you get paid.
It’s easy […]

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