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roymogg posted this in website on August 29th, 2009

Submitting Your Website to Search Engines – a DIY task

If you have a web-based business or if a significant portion of your business is done on the web through your website, then the best advertising and marketing is done by submitting to a search engine. No amount of press release, newspaper or radio ad, banner ad, spam email or newsletter will achieve the same results, although, maybe effective in a small

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Royston posted this in website on August 26th, 2009

Must Have Features Your Web Site

The first step to sales when customers visit your site to see the products they were looking for. Of course, search engine optimization and better rankings can’t keep your customer on your site or make them buy. The customer having visited your site, now ensure that she gets interested in your products or services and stays

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Royston posted this in Wales on August 23rd, 2009

Recent Archaeological research shows football invented in Wales

It is often not appreciated that Football was invented in Wales this article aims to put this straight and pleads for more recognition of the long Welsh tradition in the arts, sport and

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Royston posted this in TipDrop on August 22nd, 2009

Folksonomies – new tagging strategies to share content

A new consumer phenomenon is called “tagging” or “folksonomies” (short for folks and taxonomy). Tagging is powerful because consumers are creating an organizational structure for online content. Folksonomies not only enable people to file away content under tags, but, even better, share it with others by filing it under a global taxonomy that they

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Jan posted this in Careers on August 21st, 2009

Careers: No Ladder to Climb?

The most traditional of all career forms is the bureaucratic, hierarchical career. (Kanter, 1989). You know the model. The only way to go is up, and promotions with concurrent pay raises represent career advancement for the most part. This may be fine for the individual who desires to manage at ever-increasing levels of responsibility… and who also accepts the inherent idea that competition intensifies as advancement continues because there are fewer and fewer slots at the

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Royston posted this in Planning on August 20th, 2009

How to cold call a client effectively - the road-map to success

For sure cold-calling is not for every sales team or every product or service, but for certain services, cold-calling is very effective in finding prospects willing and able to purchase and is an extremely effective prospecting tool. Because cold-calling, making an unsolicited business approach, either door stepping or by phoning, just like spamming, is surprisingly successful if done well and above all is targeted and

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Stephanie posted this in Management Practice on August 19th, 2009

How to manage remote staff – tips and guidelines

Remote/virtual staff must clearly understand why they exist and be able to translate their purpose into actions. Research suggests greatest problem for staff and managers is still communication. Managers must become results oriented, shift from being a controller to a leader or coach. Need to develop specialised communication and planning skills, including the ability to communicate well

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Stephanie posted this in Management Practice on August 18th, 2009

The best practice of managing diversity at work

This article discusses what is meant by diversity, outlines the business case for taking a positive approach to diversity at work, and discusses the psychological underpinnings of related concepts such as stereotyping, prejudice and group membership. Most importantly it will highlight best practice for training and diversity awareness sessions, as recent research highlights that if not done correctly diversity training can actually make things

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Royston posted this in WebTools on August 18th, 2009

How Do Search Engines Work – Web Crawlers

Search Engines use spiders to index websites. When you submit your website pages to a search engine by completing their required submission page, the search engine spider will index your entire site. A ‘spider’ is an automated program that is run by the search engine system. Spider visits a web site, read the content on the actual site, the site’s Meta tags and also follow the links that the site

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roymogg posted this in DATA Utilities on August 12th, 2009

Why not backup data on your Laptop?

If you were to look at past statistics regarding the information that has been lost in regards to laptop computers, you would find yourself amazed.Even though this information can be astounding, many of us still don’t take the time to back up the information on our

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