Mobile For Local?

I bet as local business it had not occured to you that having your website available to be read and seen on mobile devices was necessary much less easy to do. Most local businesses struggle to just get a website going much less optimize it for the latest trends and accessiblity provided by fast emerging technologies.

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Billboard Or Customer Magnet Part 2

So in my last post about business websites for local retailers I talked about whether you web site is a billboard or a customer magnet. Obviously we would all want them to be customer magnets. That is why we are in business in the first place right? Before I go over...

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Have You Ever?

You see sometimes when you spend your life with computers and the Internet you have to deal with the issues that come with them. You see there are dangers out there to watch out for and most of the time we are way too busy to see them or to try and prevent the mayhem they can cause. Last year, at a most inopportune time one of my wqork computers had a hard drive failure and it caused me a couple weeks of frantic scrambling to recover and update things. In the end it worked out but there is no way that I would want that again. So I got on schedule to do back ups.

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Billboard Or Customer Magnet?

The world of the web and small business can be a confusing and strategically difficult road to navigate. Everyone tells you to build a web site. You have to have one yesterday. But very few tell you how or what to put on it. As a result if you do some sampling of local business web sites you will find that the vast majority of them are virtual bill boards in cyberspace.

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Putting All The Pieces Together

As a small business owner there are so many puzzle pieces to keep track of in the course of the day, week, month. You have sales, advertising, payroll, inventory, marketing, and on and on. In order to keep everything in place and things rolling smoothly is a large and difficult task for even the best of businessmen.

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