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Friday, July 17, 2009 9:25 AM

Make way for e-business

Guest post from Emma Jones, founder of Enterprise Nation and author of ‘Spare Room Start Up - how to start a business from home'. Online spending is growing rapidly in the UK. E-commerce in 2009 will be worth over £20bn and, experts say, by 2013, online
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:29 AM

How to find and keep customers

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
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Monday, March 23, 2009 1:01 PM

SMEs use Twitter to cut costs

Social networking, relationship marketing, LinkedIn, Facebook, Bebo, and now Twitter. As the traditional forms of advertising are in rapid decline (in the news today is the 1,000 job cut at The Daily Mail group) so new ways of promoting your business
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Friday, February 06, 2009 9:29 AM

Improve your search engine optimisation

Don't be overwhelmed by data is the title of blog posted by a colleague in Microsoft adCenter. It was deemed to be so good by those in the know it's reached the final of the Semmy's, an annual awards event recognising content produced across the search
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:56 AM

Get out there!

The latest Virgin ad is the subject of my colleague Nick's latest post on his True Business blog . It's very clever and very funny - I won't spoil it for you - read his blog and watch on the ad on YouTube. The point of this is, as Nick says, "the whole
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:53 AM

Try online advertising for free: Microsoft adCenter is offering £30's worth of clicks to get you started

Think online advertising is too difficult, too expensive and not for you? Think again. Here's some interesting holiday reading, kindly provided by Guest Blogger Cedric Chambaz, who is the Marketing Manager for Microsoft adCenter here in the UK. And if
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Friday, February 08, 2008 9:19 AM

New Microsoft Office Live webcasts

Have you signed up to Office Live yet? Microsoft Office Live Small Business is a set of Internet-based tools to help small businesses quickly and easily create a professional web presence. You can get a free domain name and quickly and easily create your
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Thursday, November 22, 2007 4:47 PM

If you've got it, flaunt it!

We're talking about your website of course. Are you one of the thousands of UK SMBs hiding your assets in dark, unvisited area of the worldwide web? Or are you thinking about what pay-per-click advertising could do for your business? Hopefully it's the
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:59 PM

Social networking opportunities for small businesses

By Matt Brady I recently published a blog entry about the new internet phenomenon that is social networking and small businesses. Today, a story surfaced about how only 8% of SME executives use social networking sites such as Facebook and Live Spaces
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 1:05 PM

Why small businesses should consider podcasting

By Matt Brady A newsletter from the superb website for home businesses Enterprise Nation (more about it below) caught my eye recently. The newsletter was promoting a podcast published on Enterprise Nation about, well, podcasting. That is to say, it is
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Saturday, June 30, 2007 7:23 PM

Why small businesses should consider blogging

By Matt Brady Microsoft's Steve Clayton back in October 2006 gave 7 reasons why SMEs should blog . In a sort of homage to that piece, I present my 5 reasons why a small business should consider launching a blog: Traffic! Blogs are great for attracting
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:27 AM

Playing the (website) numbers game

By Matt Brady In a previous post, I highlighted the importance of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) on a website. But how do you measure traffic to a site (and whether an SEO campaign has been successful)? Our article on bCentral about tracking website
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Monday, June 25, 2007 9:07 PM

Social networking and your small business

By Matt Brady There's a bit of a revolution going on, and I'm not referring to the mess unfolding in Venezuela. All of a sudden, more and more people are popping up on facebook , a social networking site that is looking more and more likely to eclipse
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Sunday, June 24, 2007 10:20 PM

SEO for the small business

By Matt Brady I came across an email the other day from someone at Microsoft asking for help with the website for his wife's garden design business: Does anyone out there have any experience of using tools or people to help with Search Engine Optimisation
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:57 AM

Steve at Startups Live

By Matt Brady Steve Clayton, CTO at the Microsoft Partner Group, presented at Bristol's Startups Live last week. His talk was about using the online medium to reach customers, exploring today's long tail phenomenon, Office Live, Seth Godin, The English
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