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By Ian Ryde

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Your Business

4 things you should do before an important business meeting

More and more business is being done remotely these days, with email a particularly convenient tool for swapping information and ideas. However, the face-to-face business meeting has huge advantages, allowing you to sell yourself and build up a relationship with the person behind the email. Meeting with clients to discuss ideas or contracts, pitching business [read more…]

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By Jenni Brown

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Reseller Hosting

How to use price promotions to attract web hosting customers

Sales and discounts are a great way to attract new web hosting customers, and with a bit of planning and marketing you can see a big difference in orders. Price promotions are ideal for all kinds of reseller hosting businesses, whether you’ve been established for years or you’re just starting out. Read on for our [read more…]

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By Jenni Brown

Posted in:
Your Business

19 must-read articles for dealing with difficult clients

Whatever kind of web professional you are, one of the most challenging and frustrating aspects of your work can be dealing with difficult clients. Even with endless amounts of patience and a willingness to readily compromise, clients who don’t understand, don’t pay, or have unreasonable requests and expectations can really grind you down. Following on [read more…]

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By Jenni Brown

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Interviews, Website of the Month

Interview with Website of the Month winner CarBootJunction

January’s Website of the Month winner was CarBootJunction, a website with a directory, forum and blog to help you locate and get the most out of your local car boot sales. We caught up with them to find out more… Tell us a bit about yourself and CarBootJunction. When I first became self-employed I was [read more…]

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By Ian Ryde

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Social Media

Our most popular pins on Pinterest

We love Pinterest, there are so many brilliant posts floating around that sometimes we get lost looking at all the different and diverse subjects and we just have to share them. Since we began using Pinterest, we have picked up a pretty good idea of the kinds of things that people like, here are some [read more…]

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By Guest Blogger

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Guest Posts

Google Analytics tips in 20 minutes

This guest post is brought to you by Squirrel Hosting. Google Analytics is a fantastic bit of kit which allows you to do a variety of research into your visitor data. The information it provides is often overlooked by many users which can be a shame considering with just 20 minutes a week, you can [read more…]

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By Matthew Telfer

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Reseller Hosting

Selling web hosting by targeting stages of the buying decision process Part 2: Information search

In part 1, we covered how you can identify the key motivators within the “Need recognition” stage of the buying process, and use that information to increase awareness of your web hosting products and services. However, at this initial stage, the opportunities to close a sale are scarce. In part 2 we will look in [read more…]

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