Recent content by Orange22

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    Thomson Basic Web Listing

    When they say your listing will get 450 hits a week they usually mean your business will be listed when people search for something related to your business activities. If you liken this listing to something like Google Adwords you'll probably receive a 0.5%-1% click through/call rate. That...
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    I need help.

    If your advert is next to your competitor and they appear to be cheaper, albeit of lower quality, you need to justify why they should contact you. Are you able to include a comparison on the quality of product, i.e. how long it lasts compared to your competition? If you let me know what the...
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    Horn for a sandwich van?

    Depends what types of van it is, is it a bedford rascal or a ford? Maybe try calling kwikfit!
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    Payment methods

    World pay or paypoint.net may be an idea, although I suspect their fees are comparable to paypal.
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    Automatically create internal links?

    You could also try and put the site into a template with dreamweaver, or using a find and replace function. Be careful though as a global find and replace isnt difficult to screw the site up.
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    Avoiding Keyword Stuffing In Title Tag

    You should only be targetting a max of two keywords per page of editorial. If you're trying to stuff more in the editorial becomes less effective. I suggest you write some more editorial.
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    What is lots of competition in terms of google results?

    I wouldnt wory about the number of pages which appear for each key word. I would research what the top keywords are and then analyse how difficult it is to rank for these terms. One way to do this is by looking at SEOmoz difficulty predictor.
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    Indemnity Insurance - Recommendations Please

    Take a look at www.simplybusiness.co.uk, you can compare quotes online. You could also try Hiscox, big insurer and great service, but you usually have to pay more to help pay for the costs of their great service.
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    Where and how sell my business?

    Selling a brand which doesn't 'inst really known here' is kind of like trying to sell chocolate to cadburys, it's not going to happen.
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    what are the commonest mistakes in setting up a forum ?

    Two problems: 1, is spam. We had thousands of posts on ours because we didnt have any validation. Which we thought would make it easier for customers. We solved this problem by putting an e-mail verification in, although I'm going to change this for a 'capture' solution. 2, getting people to...
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    Sales Courses

    Not sure, but try reading these two books. Very, very good: Spin Selling; and Persuasion: The Art of Influencing People by James Borg
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    Yell.com – is it worth it?

    There is no way on earth I would give yell any of my money. They're a has been, glorified telephone book. You're much better off putting the money into a Google account and doing pay per click. When you think about it, everyone uses Google now days and not a directory such as Yell. That said...
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    Business insurance recommendations

    I'd have a look at Simply Business, I bought a policy through them. I only get their newsletter, which you can opt out of when you go through their quote form.
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    CMS System

    Have you looked at using a system called Drupal, its open source, easy to use. But it may need some customisation.
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    Looking for affiliates

    Have you looked at signing up with a couple of affiliate networks. There are quite a few in the UK which promote programs to literally hundreds of thousands of affiliates. The best network depends on what type of product you are promoting. Here are a few of the UK's lergest affiliate networks...