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…
Small local retailers can begin to do better if they begin to realize that the only thing they truly have to sell is service. The Big Box Store can sell whatever it is cheaper, but the small local store can help the customer make a better purchase, know more about it and utilize it for…
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.
“Our theme isn’t jobs, jobs, jobs. Rather it is to bring back the kids to their hometown,” said John Larsen, CEO of HomeMovie.com (www.homemovie.com). Larsen started a program, Bring Back the Kids, in the small town of Winthrop, WA (population 350) to connect former residents with career opportunities in their hometown.Source: The Agurban E-Zine, Issue…
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…
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