A major issue I am having is trying to work out which company to use to integrate all of my suppliers APIs into. I have a list of perhaps 5 or 6 different APIs ranging from accounting software to a CMS and CRM API and various reseller APIs that all have to be integrated to give the customer a single unique dashboard to use.
There are 2 points of view when it comes to your first business website. The first view is that you should go as cheap as you can, normally having a friend of a friend build you a website that looks like a 15 year old built it. The next is to pay a web design company several thousand pounds for something that isn't needed.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is the general term most commonly associated with Pay Per Click, Affiliate Marketing and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of strategy of optimising a website both on and off site to appear higher in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs).
Social media is now a huge part of the way in which the majority of the population communicate online. The brilliance of Social media is if it is used correctly it can put you in-front of a highly targeted audience. However only certain industries can benefit from a social media campaign.
There are thousands of Web Content Manage Systems (WCMS or CMS) available online, both open source and commercial. I have used Joomla, Drupal, PHP-Nuke, Oscommerce and Liquidshop. LiquidShop by Sitemakers is the only commercial (paid) system I have used, largely because the open source software is more than adequate.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Is the process or strategy of improving a websites visibility in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) and natural listings. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the unpaid or free half of the practice of Search Engine Marketing (SEM). (Please see my previous article on SEM).
After 2 years of eBaying and 6 months of working at HSBC in Nailsea I decided I should start a company ready for university, I was on my gap year. With little budget but an idea i formed a website (subsequently sold and now defunct) that sold solar panels, wind turbines and associated eco-gadgetry online.
I thought I would write a series of articles on my experiences of business. I am by no means qualified to offer you insight in how to run a multi-national conglomeration, but I have spoken to lots of people who do or have and I am starting my own, so I thought it would be nice to pass down any information I gain, please take it with a pinch of salt.
I have come to the point in my business plan where I have a long long list of things I would like to integrate with the proposed new website.
I have recently been in discussion with a friend of mine about the possibility of using a open source piece of code to create a spider to crawl through th internet and find and index keywords and pages of interest for me.
I have taken the decision to implement Google Apps in my new business and integrate any existing domains I own with my main Apps account.
Black Stag Investments LTD is the holding company for all companies and/or ideas I own a holding in.
ASSESSING POTENTIAL CAPACITY FOR CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN NORTH SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM
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This is a study aimed at assessing the potential capacity for carbon sequestration in North Somerset, United Kingdom.
A big question facing a new online business is should they farm out their adwords budget to a "adwords specialist" or should they dip their toes in the big scary waters of online advertising and try it for themselves?
I am currently contemplating which of the multitude of non-geographic numbers to use in my marketing campaign.
I have been researching into call analytics providers today. With the new company we want to be able to track conversions both online and offline of paid and non-paid advertising.
Nowadays when you sign up to hosting online the hosting company will often offer SEO enhancement for £99.99, whatever that is. Please, if you read this, ignore that offer, it is a trick. SEO is nothing without content, and so many people still get it so very wrong.
One of the most common phrases that is passed around on the menagerie of SEO websites online is that “Content is King”. As a SEO “geek” (I dare not use the word guru) i whole heatedly support the belief that content is king, however there are some basics that people are still getting wrong.
This is my website, my name is Cai Thomas & I am based in North Somerset just outside of Bristol, England, United Kingdom.
This site is under construction.
I thought the site needed a makeover before we launch the company, so I have loaded up Joomla 1.6 and I am implementing the HTML5. Lets see how this goes shall we?
My name is Cai Thomas, I am a 23 year old graduate in Geography & Environmental Management from the university of the West of England.
I consider myself to be entrepreneurial, with a tendency towards technology, especially E-commerce and online marketing. I currently am in the final stages of planning a new business.
Please feel free to have a look around.
