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Getting Started Online 

Free Email Providers

Free Email Address

For free email address you can sign up to any of the top following providers:

Yahoo = yahoomail.co.uk             
Google= gmail.co.uk                
Hotmail= hotmail.co.uk

Simply follow their step by step instructions to create your own email address.

Tip: A Short & simple email address is best. Try to keep it relevant to your business or name if possible.

 

Get British Business Online

 

FREE 4 Page Website?

www.gbbo.co.uk

Getting British Business Online is an initiative by Google that allows you to create a website for your business in 15 minutes, for free.

This site is simple and easy to use.

The site will ask for card payment details but they will not take payments until the renewal date, you will also need a mobile handy to receive the activation code this is to confirm who you are.

Domain Tip: Try to keep it relevant to your business if possible. Remember there are plenty of business just like yours, you have to find a name as close to yours as possible eg:www.topcutsalon.co.uk Has gone then place Wirral at the end  www.topcutsalonwirral.co.uk. by placing Wirral after your name you have a better chance of securing the domain name you want.

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Accept Payments Online 

Setup a PayPal Business Account today and start accepting online. You will need a website and email address to do this,  you can also use your own personal PayPal account the same one you would use for E Bay, you just need to upgrade it for to a business account.

You can then start accepting payments securely on line,  including  credit card payments online via PayPal Standard Payments.*.

Plus the money goes direct into your PayPal account instantly no waiting for payments, This has to be a good thing!

To set up a PayPal Business Account and learn more about PayPal Payments click here: PayPal Payments.

Six things you could do today to get between 25-75% more customers and dominate your local market?

However only about 1-5% of businesses in your area are actually doing it! Most just rely onout-of-date methods, or believing that they are doing it right, or even worse just passing trade

Ask yourself this, is you business doing any of these?

1, Google Places (YOU must be position 1-5 or lose over 75% of the local business to your competition!)

2, List your business on all the local business directories, Google now uses these sites to rank your business on Google!

3, Dominating ALL the Search engines not just Google (if you’re not position 1-10 on the first page  forget it as you’re losing over 85% of the local business!)

4, Mobility enabled websites, Google predicts this year over 75% of people will search using mobiles for local business!

5, Social Networking pages such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin,

6, Reputation management –Reviews are so important for your business !

Putting these six factors into action today will instantly bring you new business and dominate your local market!

 

Building your Own WebSite or Looking to get one built?

These are the must do's!  

  • SEO: Relates to how well a site does in search engine rankings based on content and keywords of a page, you should always produce original SEO copy in the form of external articlesblogs and web content to improve the natural search engine ranking of your site…
  • Optimizing Meta Tags: Optimise your website for targeted keywords and include them in yourMeta Tags, Title, Description and image Alt Tags
  • Existing Content Optimisation: The content of your website should be optimised for targeted keywords which include adding keywords H1 H2 tags
  • HTML Site Map: Create a Google Site Map so that the search engine crawlers and spiders crawl your website with ease…
  • XML Site Map: Setting up XML Site Map and submitting the same to Google Webmaster Tools so that the pages can be indexed with Google…
  • Setting up Articles: Using your main keywords Create well written 350-400 word article's and post them to WirralBusiness.com, Blogger.com, Hubpages.com, Squidoo.com and similar themed article based sites etc…
  • Link Building: Look for similar websites to yours and request a link to be placed on their websitelinking to your website.
  • Directory Submission: Submit your website link to locally based directories make, sure you list in the most relevant category and always try to link your website and social media back…
  • Blogs: Can be added to your website and are a great way to increase traffic to your site by producing keyword-rich blog posts. Also, interesting articles can increase traffic to your site as they can be shared using social networking sites…
  • Social Media Marketing: A market continually growing; social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are incredible sites to communicate on… 
  • Twitter: Set up a Twitter account and create updates about your company activities for the week. We can help you grow followers via our Twitter account, www.twitter.com/wirral_Business
  • You Tube: increase user engagement with your website. Online videos now play a major part in user’s research into products, services and buying decisions... More
  • Facebook Fan Page: Create a fan page; never use a personal account to promote your business! It's against Facebook's T & C's plus it’s also restrictive.  A Facebook Fan page is a great way to grow contacts…
  • Facebook Advertising: target relevant audience based on their likes and search history, as well as age, gender, relationship status and location. There are two ways to pay for these ads, either CPC – which is similar to pay-per-click or CPM for which you pay each time your ad is viewed…
  • Email Marketing: Maintain relationships with existing customers. Email marketing is useful in promoting new services and gain consumer insight, clearly layout email design and newsletter content…
  • Google Places/Pages: Using Google Places is a fantastic way to increase traffic to your site; a great way to advertise your services on a local, national or international scale, and improve sales. Further to this, Google Places is great to communicate to your customer’s information such as opening times, contact information and address…
  • Localised Pay-per-click: Probably the easiest way to appear on page 1 of Google results quickly. PPC is a great way of driving traffic to your site whilst you wait for your site to rank organically; also, you only pay for the traffic that has made it to your site…
  • Online Press Releases: A newsworthy article is a great way to promote your company and improve your ranking. Press releases can be written about a new product, service, promotions and latest offers etc...
  • QR Codes: Stand out from the crowd with a QR CODE, they can be used on Business Cards, Brochures, Flyers,  Magazines, Newspapers, Taxis etc…More

 

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