Managing your web business health is vital for all site owners. Let’s resolve to get healthier in 2012. As the owner of a website, you have the responsibility for ensuring that the health of your website is the best it can be. There is a good business advantage to this, and there is an added [...]
I’ve written lots about the importance of planning. I truly believe the old adage about failure to plan equaling planning for failure. But sometimes you just want to get on with it. So here is a quick guide to setting up a web business from scratch, which I am writing as I do it for [...]
When we analyze our potential Rewards to assess market size and profitability, we use broad matching criteria. This gives us the best possible view of the market that we will try to reach. Broad match searching will match Internet Business to Web Business, which may seem obvious, but it also brings other benefits. Broad match [...]
As I wrote about the rare possibility of shortcutting the strategic planning stage in a websites business, another idea for a planning shortcut came to mind. What if you had a really simple business model that was based on targeting a competitor or following the steps to success of a market leader? I certainly would [...]
When you’re in the websites business, clients expect their sites to appear overnight, forgetting that before you start producing the site, you must have a plan. My pages on how to develop detailed strategies are a bit sparse, but I will be rectifying that shortly. I have been busy creating site plans for clients, and [...]
I’ve been discussing passive income recently, but the debate hangs on definition, and the passion of purpose gets lost in the passive. It all started when Leo told Lis that there’s no such thing as passive income. On the one hand, we have Leo with a fairly woolly view of what passive means, an unresearched [...]
Despite the lack of activity here and on shrewdies.net, I am still open for business. In fact, business is booming, so I just do not have time to develop these web business help sites. If you are desparate for help, I’m still around, so I can soon answer questions – I just can’t get involved [...]
Though I try to avoid technical issues here, I feel that business owners in general, and web business owners in particular benefit from seeing the context of important technical tools. The most important tool in my business is WordPress. I know that there are many other tools for developing websites, but experience tells me to [...]
Though I’m most concerned with your web business safety from the commercial sense, I’m also concerned that you do not wreck your web business by losing important data. In some senses, this is a technical issue that belongs on shrewdies.net. However, the commercial implications are so big, and the technical requirements so simple, that this [...]
Business Retirement Plan I need a good business retirement plan! Not too long after one personal milestone[1], tomorrow brings another – I’m retiring. Four years ago, I moved from full-time to part-time employment. During that time, I also shifted careers to a job in PR[2]. Tomorrow sees an end to paid employment for me. An [...]