Before You Start Your Own Internet Business

For most people, starting an online business involves finding a website developer, and then going along with whatever the developer says.

While this may seem easy and convenient, it also has many dangers. The main one is that you can easily lose control of your website and your entire online business. You can also become locked into an arrangement where any change to your website will be time consuming and expensive.

I want to take you back a couple of steps, and share some basic stuff about websites and online businesses that most people don’t know. (more…)

Rants and Raves

Boring, Boring, Boring. But Essential.

A local neuroscientist leading a team of 10 people in groundbreaking Altzheimer’s research has lost 6 months of research data and analysis. Because his laptop was stolen. And he had no backup of the data. http://www.themercury.com.au/article…ania-news.html

Productivity

WordPress – The Perfect Website for Small Business People

You can have a fully operational website like this within a few hours.  Free. A common stumbling block for small businesses is the creation of a new website. Or the updating of an old website. I’ve seen people waiting  for months while a friend or relative “builds them a site”.  Or  spend thousands of dollars [...]

General

12 Rules for Online Survival

I’ve personally broken most of these, and suffered the consequences. I hope you learn from my mistakes. 1. Use your commonsense. Don’t believe everything you hear, read, or see. 2. Don’t authorise, buy, or sign up for ANYTHING unless you know what is, what it does, whether it works, and whether you need it.

Case Studies

How To Accept Online Payments on Your Website

There are many ways of collecting payments for the goods and services that you sell online. Many are simple to set up, and just involve pasting a bit of code onto your existing web pages. I’ll start off by discussing the easiest method – the  non-bank service providers.

Website Tips

CHOP OFF your useless WWW Appendix

Does YOUR website will work with and without the www prefix? "Don’t know. Why does it matter" I hear you say. Well, here’s why it is important.

Rants and Raves

I Survived Dr. Joes Hypnotic Marketing

A while ago, I received an email about a new Web 2.0 related product by Dr Joe Vitale, (Doctor Fire) who is a well known Internet Marketer. I haven’t bought anything from Dr. Joe before, and the sales letter did its work so I dutifully punched in my card number. Oh my.

Rants and Raves

The MOST IMPORTANT Internet Skill

Strangely enough, the most important Internet Skill you can ever develop has nothing to do with the internet. Or Technology. Or Computers. The most important internet skill you can develop is

Website Tips

Starting Your Web Business – 5 Things you Must Know

To new and old webmasters starting a web business: These five basics will help you get your internet business off to a great start – and possibly make improvements to your existing one.

How To

The RADIO RULE – How To Choose an Effective Domain Name

This simple test will tell you if a domain name you’re considering is going to be effective. It’s getting more and more difficult to find a good .com domain name. Pretty well every word in the dictionary has already been dot-commed. So a lot of people (including some highly paid consultants who should know better) [...]

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