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  • SBK020 Are You Listening to Your Customers?

    IdeaScale is a powerful online tool, based on empowering communities to have a say in driving innovation for a business by automating the process of collecting ideas and listening to your customers.

  • How to Get Free Business Intelligence

    How to Get Free Business Intelligence

    Running any business without the use of Intelligence or Insight is foolhardy. It’s akin to driving a car in pitch darkness, with the headlights turned off ! Although you might start the car, move a few metres, will you reach your destination? I doubt it. Business Intelligence is what informs the best of business decisions, serving as…

  • 18 Business Planning Made Simple

    Writing a solid Business Plan doesn’t have to be as hard as you think.  If 2011 is the year you want to start a business, chances are, you’re going to need a Business Plan. Whilst some people see the process of writing a good Business Plan challenging, good practical help  is always at hand, if…

  • What Are Your Competitors up To ?

    Always stay close and keep a watch on what your competitors are up to. Innovative new products and services could just be the very thing that differentiates your business from your competitors.Remember this works both ways because your competition is not sleeping either. Be your Competitor’s Customer This may sound counter intuitive but it’s far…

  • 17 Son Grills Dad over Book

    A really special episode in which my son, Tinashe, a Journalism and Communications undergraduate student, interviews me about my book, PIMP YOR BIZ, launched this week. It was great to be in the hot seat for a change and face the music. Amongst other things, I get grilled on:

  • 16 Twelve Business Improvement Ideas for Christmas

    Why not tap into the many, mostly free, productivity and business improvement tools available and unleash the power of web 2.0 business tools for your business.

  • 15 YouTube for Business

    In this part 2 and conclusion to the Google Introduction to business products presentation, Daniel Bornstein takes us through how YouTube has started to transform the face of search with some amazing statistics.

  • 14 How to Top Google Rankings in 10 minutes.

    Google Adwords offers one of the quickest routes for your website to rank highly to give a good Return On Investment (ROI).

  • Why should your Business Care about KPI’s?

    A candid Look at the “K” in KPI and why your business should care and make decisions based on what the KPI’s are confirming.

  • 13 Ten Ways to Optimise Your Website – Part 2

    We conclude the “10 Ways to Optimise your Website and Boost Conversion”. This episode focuses on often overlooked things like optimising the size of images, configuring javascript so it loads asynchronously and the concept of “keep alive”, a setting allowing your webserver to keep a connection to the browser open

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