Website Marketing Tip 1 – Avoid boring brochures

Website Marketing Tip 1 – Avoid boring brochures

For any small business there are basically two types of website.
The first – and most commonly sold by web developers – is the brochure website. Brochure websites are characterised by heavy designs, stock images and page after page of generic “corporate speak”.
Now, as an Internet marketer I am a little biased but in my opinion [...]

Top 5 reasons you’d be mad not to market test

Top 5 reasons you’d be mad not to market test

Do you have a online business idea you are thinking of starting up? Here are the top 5 reasons why it is absolutely critical to conduct market testing before you take the idea into full product development.
1. You will limit your risk
How confident are you in your idea? Willing to bet 10 or 20 thousand [...]

How to Lose a Long Term Customer in 3 Minutes

I have been a customer of TPG, an Australian ISP for upwards of 5 years. Not because they provide reliable, fast broadband – or because they offer quality customer service (they don’t do either) – but because I am lazy and the pain of staying with TPG has been insufficient to motivate me to switch.
That’s [...]

Who Should Close a Customer Support Case?

As an Internet marketer I deal with a lot of different tools and software – and unfortunately as a result have to raise more than my fair share of support cases.
I have always thought that it is standard practice that the customer has the opportunity to approve or confirm their support case being marked as [...]