Small business owners should only move their enterprise onto the internet if they have a clear strategy, online consultants have claimed.
According to e-consultancy, many businesses move onto the web quickly in order to attract a wider range of customers but the step should not be taken without the appropriate plans in place.
The internet provides an array of options for any SME, such as email marketing and online purchase but in order to be effectively used it must be well managed.
Linus Gregoriadis at e-consultancy says: ‘There are potentially more customers for online businesses. Although things should be thought out - you can just dive in - you should have a clear strategy for why you’re moving your business online.’
‘There are increased market opportunities online to target other customers.’
IT services firm Small Business Computing have urged SME’s to use their computers to their full potential by making the most of broadband to transfer data and to build business online.
If you’ve ever needed to download an embedded video (i.e. a product on YouTube when you have permission) then it isn’t immediately obvious how to get the file. Well, take a look at this site and it’s a synch:
Download Videos
Obviously this could be open to abuse and I’m not encouraging using it for this purpose but more and more companies are putting their promotional material on the big name video sites and this tool is great for such purposes.
This site lets you build some very nice slide shows in Flash with numerous different effects. If nothing else, it is great fun to use and a very clever application. I put one together for the Busy outdoors.Com shop in minutes:
Busy Outdoors.Com Slide Show
You can register and create your own - maybe show it off to us here?
Mike Leibner runs Article Underground which you may or may not have heard of. AU is a subscription service that provides its users with PLR articles each month to generate information sites to pull in Adsense and affiliate revenue.
Whether this type of service is still valid is a discussion all on its own, but Mike quite often produces videos that are aligned with his products. Here’s one to take a look at that maybe useful:
Deep Linking Video
These buttons are quite tricky to get right with Photoshop but this site generates them for you in lots of different formats. I have used them at the Busy Outdoors.Com shop to good effect I think.
Here’s the link:
Glassy Button Generator
