Once you have a website, you want to know if anyone is looking at it. So most web hosting includes at least some basic statistics. But, we are always hungry to know more about our customers. So here are some no-fee web stats packages I use. StatCounter – provides very detailed info on the most…
I’ve mentioned that my website students didn’t own FrontPage software. So we talked about some alternatives. First, the no-fee software that is available. 1st Page Mozilla Composer Web Dwarf WYSIWYG Web Editor The second alternative is a site or content management system. These may be included with your hosting, whether free or paid. The third…
Welcome to our new poster, OkieJ. I’ve invited a couple of other small biz experts to post also, so we’ll see if we can get introductions out of them soon.
This link is about making your website approachable for customers, but the original book is all about making yourself approachable. So let’s push it a little more and think about making our businesses more approachable. If it weren’t your business, would you feel comfortable approaching it? Here are the lessons for websites: Make your site’s…
Here’s a tidy little example of making it easy for customers to buy from you. Convince your boss to buy Web CEO for you If you believe Web CEO can help you and your business in work,download our Power Point presentation (~190 kb) and show it to your boss. That is laugh-out-loud perfect! So think…
My 4 week website class is now over! We were supposed to be covering just the use of FrontPage software. We threw that idea out the first night. All of the students wanted to create a simple site. They didn’t have the FrontPage software, so we needed some different solutions. I’ll publish a few of…
By Tom Peters I had several press interviews yesterday for a forthcoming event in South Africa. The conversation invariably turned to entrepreneurship. I was repeatedly asked what the “secrets” were to starting a successful business—any business, not some Silicon Valley or Cambridge software or biotech hottie.I’m sure I’d been asked the same thing before, but…
Rural small businesses face a big workforce challenge. We are dealing, right now, with issues that will hit big city businesses soon. Over at Small Business Trends, Anita Campbell has a report on the coming shortages in the labor market. My Small Biz take on this? We must grow and train our own people. The…
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