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Hi Alexie,

Good on you for having a go. I assume that by the date of the post that this may be a New Years resolution....?
For any first business, keep it simple and as inexpensive a setup as...

If you are doing less than 100 contacts you could do it yourself from outlook, but there are plenty of services that do it for free for under 100 contacts in you database. Even then it is a pain in...

I like direct telemarketing to businesses to get the managers name and direct email and give a brief mention of what we do. I then send an introductory email outlining our services. I then build up...

Hi Huggytree,

I have a few tradesman mates who ask me about websites and social media and seo. I do put a bit of thought into this and have devised a bit of a strategy in my head and even made...

Most SEO professionals will say Google doesn't intermingle AdWords data with nartuaral SERPS for your placement. In other words, and AdWords campaign will have no effect on your natural search engine...

This is to Vangogh, as I saw you posted to this thread a few years back.
What are your thoughts today on Guest Posts?
Do you still perform the same practices as of several years ago when you first...

As we are primarily online, our website records our customers details and the have the option to sign up to our Newsletter if the want to receive emails. Also I have setup Google analytics to get our...

I think you need to tailor your posts and even the social networks you use to what your target audience is and how they interact with you and your business. What works for one business may not work...

The problem is that you can get lost in all the books and all the reading. Often it is ready fire aim - then evaluate

Good point, the first thing is to start, the second is to refine your...

Hi Brad,

It really is hard (read expensive) these days to get a good business name that you want AND get the domain name cheap. I found this when I came up with Core List. You see I wanted a name...

Hey Gregory,

Welcome to the forum.

Regards
John

Hi Sandy,

I just wanted to add to this thread again. I was reading a good article on Tim Ferris Blog, this was about testing ideas and finding out the potential of a market (that is online), this...

Thanks Kristine.

So do you think the h1, titlle, and alt tags will become unimportant??

I personally think these still are important and should be used for the keywords that you do want a page to be optimized for,...

Thanks VanGogh, getting active on here has opened my eyes a bit. It is definitely a common concept that in Australia we do follow trends in America quite a lot in many avenues, not just business. But...

Hey Joey, your expertise should come in handy for alot of questions here I assume.

Regards
John

It will take a while before you can apply good judgement to what you need to do. You really need to get some Experience and Experience comes from bad judgement.

So don't be afraid to just start...

Hi Sandy,

You can probably only ever guess, but from my experience, I would probably first assume that you are not going to make any decent sales in the first 12 months. Only the odd bits and...

Josh's reply above was good, based on what you wrote, you MUST do up a budget and you MUST understand the basic bookkeeping and accounting side of you business, if you have no idea about this, one of...

I just wanted to do a quick introduction on myself and my business Core List

My name if John, I am 33, I am an Australian resident, but I have joined this forum to get an understanding of how...

As mentioned above, I agree, one of the first steps is to define your audience. You can even dig a little deeper and be quite specific as to who your audience is and for what events. The idea is to...

I just wanted to post to keep this thread going, this is a valuable thread to newcomers. I definitely think that a name has to 'stick' in your brain if someone else tells you about it, it also has to...

Thumbs Up for creating better content, I definitely think that Google is preferring good content relative to ones search query. I I believe the theory that they are using bounce rate and other user...

Hi Elwira,

I didn't go through your site in full detail, but I did visit it and click through a few pages and got an overall idea of your design. I must say, I am very impressed. As a graphic...

That's a great little idea. So simple, but I could see desire for it. Teenagers would be a good target market to promote your products. Maybe try some sort of a prize for displaying your products....