Setting up your business on the internet is like everything else.
You have to invest either time or money. Or a bit of each.
The Internet Bloke helps you by:
- Providing free information so you can do things yourself, and
- Offering a range of services if you don’t have time to do this, or are stuck.
Here’s some of the things I can do to increase your profits and cut your costs:
- Be your “on call” expert to help you when you need advice. In person, by email, or by phone.
- Help you improve your website and get more visitors
- Quickly create an effective Wordpress based website that you can easily update yourself
- Increase your sales by using an asset you probably don’t know you possess.
- Show you how to cut your advertising costs.
- Get more business through Google’s Local Search
- Help you repair any current website problems or disasters
I’m currently updating my services page, so please email me at Eric@theInternetBloke.com if you have any questions.
Regards, Eric Graudins.
Hi,
I case you haven’t noticed, video is the new “Wunderkind” of the internet , and it will make you money, cure cancer, and grow back your hair.
Some people use video very well. Others – err – don’t.
Warning: RANT ahead.
Continue reading “How To Use Video to REALLY p*ss off prospective customers” »
This is going to look like a massive contradiction, but please humor me for a minute or so.
I really hate those spammy websites that promise to make you a huge income by doing nothing but sit around in your undies.
But I’m going to suggest that you visit one of them, and pay $10 to sign up.
The site promises that you can make $22,000 per month by doing nothing.
Yeah, right. I don’t blame you if you don’t believe a word of it.
I’ve never asked you to look at a site like this before, but this site has something different.
Continue reading “MyMoneyFish Resource Package – only $10.” »
Hi,
How do you look for goods and services these days?
Your fingers are still doing the walking, but these days it’s more likely on the internet than in the Yellow Pages.
Imagine that you are a visitor to Hobart who wants to get some wine. So you pull out your trusty iphone, go to Google and search for Hobart bottleshop.
And what comes next could either boost your business, or make you wonder why you’re not getting customers any more.
Continue reading “Local Search – A Goldmine for YOUR Business?” »
Keeping track of all the passwords you use for the many internet sites you visit is a real problem.
For the past few years, I’ve used RoboForm – which is regarded as the best password manager and form filler available.
I recently stopped using it. Here’s why.
Continue reading “Password Manager Reviews – RoboForm vs Lastpass” »
What Is Internet Marketing?
There’s no PhD you can strive for to be in the Internet marketing industry. You have to learn as you go – on your own – soaking up information along the way. The first thing you need to know is what it means to be an Internet marketer, because it isn’t always clear to everyone.
For most small businesses, using the internet is an excellent, cost effective way of
- Finding new customers,
- Staying in contact with existing customers
- Increasing customer loyalty
- Reducing advertising costs
Most small businesses don’t realise that they have a VERY valuable asset right under their noses.
Continue reading “Internet Marketing For Small Business” »
1. You Need Your Own Domain Name:
A domain name is an internet address that is controlled by you. It uniquely identifies your business on the internet. ( ie www.yourname.com)
A domain name about the cheapest investment you’ll ever make for your business. The two main benefits are:
· It gives your business a professional image.
· You promote YOUR business every time you give out your email or website address.
(After all, why give free publicity to some other company (ie Yahoo, AOL, or Bigpond) if you use their name in your email address)
Continue reading “7 Things You Need To Know Before Building A Website” »
How Many Home Pages are there on your website?
The old concept of having a main home page, and then links to many other pages to find what you want is the traditional way of building a website.
So if someone was searching for “ferrets as pets”, the link would take them to the homepage of a ferret site, where they had to hunt around – possibly through several layers of menus – to eventually find a page about having ferrets as pets.
However, the increased power and effectiveness of search engines and websites mean that people expect to put a term into a search engine, click on one of the results, and start reading about exactly what they want to see.
So they’d expect to land exactly on a page that discusses the topic of having a ferret as a pet. This means that the selection of keywords, and writing content that precisely addresses that keyword, is vitally important.
So you should be constructing your site as if ANY page of your site is effective as your home page – with links, information, and contact details.
In these days of laser focussed keyword targetting, it is common for an entire page to be written just for one keyword phrase.
This is very difficult to maintain and update if your website is a traditional static type of site that has been created for you by a developer – but very simple if you are using something like Wordpress as the engine that runs your website.
Many businesses sell or give away their old computers without realising that the hard drives probably contain confidential information about their business.
Most people don’t know that deleting the data, or even formatting the hard disk does NOT remove this data from the disk. It is easy to recover.
I suggest that you either sell the computer without the hard disk, or use a special program to totally “shred” the files contained on the hard disk so that the contents cannot be restored. Pay a visit to www.download.com or your favorite software source, and search for programs using the search term “file deletion”
Choose a program that will overwrite the files several times and make them unrecoverable. then use it on the data contained on the computer you are about to sell.
You can either selectively choose the parts of the disk you want to delete, or delete the whole disk.
Deleting the whole disk is probably the best option if you have the system disks so that you can reinstall the operating system.
Internet Marketing is a generic term that means selling goods and services on the internet.
There are dozens of different methods of doing this, but all of them boil down to having knowledge of a base level set of internet related skills. So you either learn them yourself, or pay someone else to do them.
Many people have asked me to teach them the required skills, but this is just not cost effective. So I’ve been looking around for an inexpensive, comprehensive course to recommend to you. I’ve please to announce that I’ve finally found one.
Continue reading “Internet Marketing Classes” »
This article will introduce you to the simple building blocks that form the foundation of every internet business.
You will also discover the master key that is at the heart of every website. Without this master key, you do not have control of your internet business.
Most business owners are what I call Technically Terrified.
Continue reading “Starting An Internet Business – The Stuff Nobody Else Will Tell You.” »
You are at an important meeting or lecture.
And you’re jotting down notes to remind you of what is being said.
Now imagine that three months later, what was said at that meeting become of vital importance to you.
So you just go back to the notes you made, touch your pen onto the notes you made, and you immediately hear the actual words that were being spoken while you were making the notes.
Magic? – Pretty much!. but that’s just one example of what you can do with the Livescribe “Pulse” Smartpen.
Continue reading “Livescribe – a MAGIC Pen?” »
It’s probably NOT YOU!
To discover who is in charge of your online business, here’s the worlds shortest quiz.
It only has one question, and you might not like the answer.
The question is:
Continue reading “Who’s REALLY In Charge of Your Online Business?” »
I f you have, or if you receive one – DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY
It almost certainly contains a link to a harmful program that will install itself onto your computer, and start doing unmentionable things to your system .
You know, I remember the innocent old days when people sent other people e-cards with pretty pictures and songs. it was a surprise to get one.
However, that was a long time ago.
Stick to the rule of NEVER opening an attachment unless you are expecting it, and
never click on links in untrusted emails..
(And have an up to date virus filter as well as an effective firewall on your computer)
In the “Real World” we are easily able to analyse situations and generally make good decisions.
For example:
The transport driver next door buys a new truck, which allows him to increase his profits by 50%. Do we go out and buy a new truck so that we can increase OUR income? Of course not.
Continue reading “Why do we Abandon Common Sense just because it’s “The Internet”?” »
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Eric Graudins
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So don't even THINK about building a website or starting any kind of Online Business before reading my definitive "Website Owners Guide".
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