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Search engine optimisation, or SEO, refers to the miscellany of things a business does to affect the visibility of a web page or website in the search results of a search engine like Google or Bing. As a small-business owner, you must keep an eye on SEO strategy and tactics to make sure customers and...

Bah… Naming. Humbug. Gibberish. Not that important. Ironically, this can be the most difficult challenge in the early stages of a start-up. While small businesses owners produce plans, research and forecast, they often leave naming until last. Not many in the industry have spoken about the...

We’d like to take a moment to introduce you to the recently launched Microsoft Business centre – a new, single destination that covers all things relevant to your small or start up business. You’ll find everything you need in there, from solutions built around your business challenges...

The Small Business Advisory Panel met last week to discuss the implications of the Government’s spending review on Small Businesses. Panellists included: Tanya Shirlow, Head of Small Business, Microsoft SMB UK Stephen Pegge, Communications Director, Lloyds TSB Commercial ...

Blog courtesy of Eric Ligman and the Microsoft Partner SMB Community Blog . Here is some great news for all of the small businesses out there from Microsoft that I am very happy to be able to tell you about! As we all know, small businesses are under incredible pressure to: Reduce operating...

Keeping existing customers and attracting new ones are core activities for small businesses: there’s an interesting case study on the BBC site today – How to target new customers . In this instance, Ganesh Selvarajah, a Business Link Adviser offers some advice on this to a small retail/mail order/online...

Show your IT support people how much you care - give them less to do! This is the title of one of our new articles on the small business website. What's the secret behind reducing your IT support? No magic really, just common sense. We've got five suggestions on how you can manage your IT more effectively...

We’ve got a great crop of new business articles on the Small Business website: 5 Time-saving tips with Outlook 2007 It’s question time! Cloud computing in a nutshell – technology terms disentangled 10 Top Tweets to follow Creating a web presence without breaking the...

New on our small business website are a couple of great articles on SEO and upgrading to Windows 7; plus, we've had a bit of tidy up and introduced a couple of new pages to help you navigate our resources. Why upgrade to Windows 7? - Dan Simpson, Client Services Manager, P1 Technology Partners...

This generally comes top of the priority list for every business - large or small - which is why we've put together a new section on the Microsoft Small Business website. Take a look at our Finding and Keeping customers section, which includes pages on how to build a professional website , how to build...