Not too long ago I was very sceptical of self-help books and viewed them as mostly ‘hokum’ designed to target the desperate with wishy-washy ideas and a lot of big talk. It was only when I actually started reading a few of them that I realised this wasn’t always the case. Sure, some of the time it’s true – and a recent book I read that made wild claims based on a misunderstanding [...]

Advertising can be far more complex than people imagine. Advertising firms have difficulty in figuring out what will work with consumers, and they have specific training in just that. How is a regular business owner supposed to optimize advertising dollars without that training too? Fortunately, there are tools available to help in understanding consumer habits to maximize advertising effectiveness: Understanding [...]

There is an old saying that suggests that there are only two things which are certainties in life and those are taxes and death! I would go one further and suggest that not only are these certainties, they are also the two things we least like to think about and that we are also irresponsible if we ignore them in our financial planning. Most people, especially those in business for themselves who are [...]

The main benefits of running an online business is your flexibility and mobility. Outsourcing can offer you just that – you can outsource your projects by posting Freelance Gigs on freelance sites. Depending on the size of your projects, there are some freelance sites you can consider: 1. Fiverr.com If you have small tasks – from helping you organize your schedule to dance in a costume [...]

When buying links to increase ranking and traffic are almost guaranteed to get your website penalized by Google, buying Twitter followers don’t. How to purchase twitter followers, and why you might want to consider doing so? Whatever you do in SEO and link building, what you are aiming in the end is targeted traffic. That’s why people are trying to rank high on search engine result pages. [...]

Virtual office can give you much-needed local presence for your web business. So, if you are living in Melbourne, Australia, you can start looking for Melbourne Virtual Offices located at Melbourne’s CBD, along with local address, phone numbers and more. Online business owners are known for their ability to work in location independent manner. However, in certain web business, you are strongly [...]

I have written a blog post about a tool to analyze your business website’s visibility on search engines, SEOMoz’ Open Site Explorer. In relation to that, I write this blog post to inform you that SEOMoz Pro is now offering a 30-day free trial! This is a huge opportunity for us to try the powerful SEO tools, free of charge, for 30 full days. Why go PRO? SEOMoz is an authority site offering [...]

I’ve been recommended to use Disqus to replace the basic commenting system in my WordPress-powered blog. So, I’ve been using it for a year on one of my blogs, and I do have mixed feeling about Disqus… read on. First of all, what is Disqus, anyway? Here’s a brief explanation from the official site: What is Disqus? Disqus is all about changing the way people think about discussion [...]

In your web business development endeavors, you simply can’t stay away from using images and photos. Unfortunately most images available on the web today are either copyrighted or creative commons licensed (need proper attribution.) Obviously, you can’t simply copy anybody’s image to use in your web design or images for your articles/blog posts. You need to buy stock photos or use [...]

As a webpreneur, you enjoy what most don’t – the ability to live and work in any places you want and the ability to manage your web businesses anytime you want. And things are getting better; cloud computing technology advances allows you to have the ability to leverage your resources even better – even you should also start a cloud business yourself! Cloud computing? Cloud business? [...]