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March 2009 - Posts

Increase sales with Search Marketing
If you’re an Office Live customer who has been using the adManager service, you’ll have been disappointed to have received notification that it’s to be discontinued . However, you can still very easily promote your website with Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising Read More...
Posted: Monday, March 30, 2009 8:26 AM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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Good and bad shops
The news this week that customers are deserting small businesses online for established brands is grim but unsurprising. It was obviously going to happen for two reasons. First the findings are from research commissioned by online aggregator eDeals, so Read More...
Posted: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:50 PM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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SMEs use Twitter to save on marketing and recruitment costs
I came across this article in Computer Weekly, about how SMEs are using Twitter to save on marketing and recruitment costs. Whilst the sample size was only 500, if you take the findings that 17% use Twitter, then that extrapolates to a very large number Read More...
Posted: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:46 AM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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Copyright and copywrong
Readers might have noticed there’s been a certain flurry of interest just lately about online music. Essentially YouTube is taking all of its professionally-produced music videos down because it says the music industry wants too much money. You can have Read More...
Posted: Monday, March 16, 2009 10:25 AM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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Social media – a good and bad thing
  This is the first of a series of Guest-blog articles from Guy Clapperton, a freelance journalist who has specialised in the small business arena for over a decade. Guy contributes to the Guardian, Times, Financial Times, Independent and Sunday Read More...
Posted: Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:43 PM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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Some great video resources for getting help with Office Live
It’s always good to have some extra help help available, especially when you’re just starting to use some of the many web services that are now available. On the Office Live Community pages, there is now a “Video” tab that reveals all the video clips Read More...
Posted: Thursday, March 12, 2009 1:01 PM by tkimber | 0 Comments
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Keep your CV up to date and in the cloud
In these difficult times, more and more people are polishing their CV just in case the worst happens. Someone told me the other day that they learnt their lesson the hard way about backing up important files. They had one copy of their CV on their home Read More...
Posted: Thursday, March 05, 2009 8:24 PM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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A small business surviving the downturn
I was recently talking to a small business owner who provides software products and services to the Architecture industry. Business has been very good historically, largely due to the UK property boom. I’d assumed that things would not now be so good, Read More...
Posted: Thursday, March 05, 2009 8:03 PM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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Using Office Live WorkSpace just got even easier
By downloading the Office Live add-in, its now possible to access your Office Live WorkSpace directly from your desktop menu. From within Word, Excel and PowerPoint, you’ll be able to save directly to your Office Live WorkSpace and open directly from Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 12:32 PM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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Goodbye attachments. Hello sharing
With Office Live WorkSpace now providing a very handy 5GB of storage, the realms of possibility start to open up. You can use your WorkSpace to store documents for sharing in the workplace, your home environment, in fact any files that you or others can Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:34 AM by tkimber | 0 Comments
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Upload images faster to Office Live
When building an Office Live website with lots of images, it can be a bit of a pain to upload each image individually. Instructions have just been updated on how to set up the mutliple image uploader. This has to be done from within the Image Gallery Read More...
Posted: Monday, March 02, 2009 10:37 AM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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Use your own domain name with Office Live
Whilst it may be very attractive to get a free domain name with Office Live Small Business , many people already have their own domain name that they had planned to connect to a website at a future date. If you want to connect your domain name with Office Read More...
Posted: Monday, March 02, 2009 10:05 AM by tkimber | 0 Comments
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