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29 March 2012

Why you need a mobile friendly website

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As more and more people use their smart phones to access the internet, more and more websites are going unseen as they are not mobile friendly.
In fact, forecasts predict that by next year there will be 1.7 billion mobile internet users worldwide. That’s a lot of potential customers.
But if your …

11 March 2012

Why you should use an e-newsletter service

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If you have ever managed a database of customers or clients, you know it’s almost a full time job keeping it up-to-date. And if that database if so you can contact current and potential customers, mistakes can be costly.
It really does pay to use Direct Sites Online’s newsletter service – …

12 February 2012

Four simple steps to getting online

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Is your company one of the 51 per cent of Australian small businesses without a website? Did you know that getting online is as easy as 1-2-3? And then a bonus fourth step promoting your site.
So where do you start?
1. Get a domain name.
That’s the yourbusiness.com web address by which …

31 January 2012

How to use your website to get the phone to ring

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It’s all well and good to have a pretty – and a well-written and popular – website, but what if you have all this, but potential customers are still not ringing or emailing?
If this is the case, it may mean that the traffic to your website is not targeted, so …

27 December 2011

Using Skype for business

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Skype has been around for almost 10 years, and a lot of people who have family and friends interstate and overseas have falling in love with that fact that it offers free (or cheap) phone and video calls.
Yet much of the business world is yet to embrace it, which, honestly, …

1 December 2011

Seven tips to drive traffic to your WordPress website

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So, you’ve listened to those who know about search engine optimisation and WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) website coding and set up your small business website with WordPress, and now you want to know how to get traffic to your site.
If you follow these 10 steps, you …

4 November 2011

Make the most of your landing page

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We’ve already discussed the scary fact that you have less than 10 seconds to impress a first time visitor to your Web site, which is why landing pages are crucial.
Landing pages are the first page a visitor sees if they enter your website by typing in the URL. And when …

8 October 2011

5 reasons to add videos to your website

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It seems just about everybody is jumping on the video bandwagon these days, and there are some very good arguments about why you should join them.
1/ Improving your search engine rankings: If you post a video on your website, and optimised it for search engines, you will be a step …

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