How to be successful
First of all you would need to first decide exactly what your definition of success is, money, happiness or something else!
But is this success a measure against other people too, say you were a runner, would you compare yourself to an Olympic runner or just against someone else in your age and ability class? It [...]
PS3 costs Sony $1 Billion
The Japanese electronics giant Sony looks as if they are heading to a massive $1 billion loss for the financial year. This is mainly due to the PS3 which has cost a lot more to develop than first anticipated, they say that this is because of the cost of the chips and other components, but [...]
October 29, 2007Press releases generate traffic
Press releases can be a great way to generate traffic to a website, this works by creating press release for a news story that is relevant to your business or the industry that your business is in. This can then be distributed to the media via press release distribution sites.
The hard part is writing the [...]
Facebook profile worth money
Just how much is a Facebook user worth? Well it has to be debatable whether they are worth anything at all, but when MySpace was sold, the business was worth about $580 million, which as they had at the time 22 million users this means that each user was worth $26, not bad but if [...]
October 24, 2007Getting your message across
Whether you are a freelancer or business you would be expecting to get some business out of your website, this is probably much more important for the freelancer as they can use a website as a sort of portfolio where people and businesses looking for your particular services can see exactly what is on offer. [...]
October 22, 2007Start a Web Hosting Business
Web hosting is a perfect business that can be run from home in fact from anywhere. The whole process can be automated, so all you will need is customers, how hard can that be?
In order to set up there are some basics that need to be looked into, here are a few:
Choose a platform like [...]
Using Promotional Items
Your business could benefit from using promotional items and here is why. Have a look around your home and you are bound to find pens, fridge magnets and other items with company names and logos on, why? Because they work! You may not go out there and then to buy the product, but there will [...]
October 18, 2007Skype Launches Mobile Phone
Skype has been in trouble recently, especially after the system failure a while ago, but as with any great businesses they are planning to bounce back and make their service more accessible and probably a bit more desirable than before.
In answer to the iPhone and Googles look into the mobile market, Skype are about the [...]
Great Idea for a Business
One thing that can help when starting a business is you! As a person you have unique properties that may be possible to use as the basis of a business, this may be a skill, place or location. But whatever the property it must be used to its fullest extent.
If we took a look around [...]
The card that opens doors
Your business card can open doors for you, but it can also have the opposite effect if it shows your company or business in a bad light. So it might be a good idea to check out what a good business card should say about you and your business.
Design – should reflect the business that [...]
Apple add Business Apps to iPhone
Apple has just released more than 200 iPhone applications, which include business tools like Etelos CRM, as well as games, news, facebook, bejeweled, Sudoku and the mini blog application Hahlo.
All of these applications work with the existing Safari browser and not the iPhones operating system; this does limit the complexity of the programs. Although there [...]
Want to accept credit cards?
It is one thing starting an online business, and finding customers is another. But once you have your customers and they want to buy something how do they pay you? The simplest way is through PayPal, but to really be professional, your website needs to accept credit cards, so how do you go about this?
Open [...]
Kwik Fit copyright infringement
You would have thought that the so called copy right infringement would be related to a logo, text or something else that belongs in theory to somebody else. But no, not in this case. Kwik Fit stands accused of playing their radios so loud that they can be over heard and therefore should be considered [...]
October 5, 2007Google upgrade business email
It looks as if Google are looking to attract those big corporate names to their services. The search market leaders who launch Google Apps last year are looking to bring into the fold more business users with email management services.
But this is no big thing, Google maybe offering something for nothing, but there is always [...]
Postal strike could hit businesses
Anyone posting a letter from today is should be aware that it is unlikely to be delivered until Thursday or Friday of next week! With up to 130,000 postal workers set to walk out today, serious disruption are going to be expected.
The strike which is over pay, pensions and working conditions, will start at lunchtime [...]
Sky may have to sell stake in ITV
When British Sky Broadcasting bought a 17.9 per cent stake in the independent television broadcaster ITV alarm bells began to ring. The main complaint happened to come from Richard Branson head of Virgin Media, this caused problems as Sky pulled some of the channels from the Virgin Media packages and the rest is history.
The competition [...]
The economy may be slowing
According to the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) there are predictions that the UK economy will be slowing from the 2.7 per cent in 2007, down to only 1.4 per cent for the year 2008. This may not seem much, but in these sorts of drops are huge and could have long lasting [...]