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Junk faxes: How to block and stop unwanted, unsolicited faxes! 2008-09-02 08:27:40 Unsolicited faxes clogging up your machine and wasting your time and paper? A tried and tested method to stopping unwanted faxes for good!
It’s Monday morning and you enter the office to see that your trusty fax machine is half submerged by a weekends worth of unsolicited faxes.
The “green” side of your conscience tells you that within a one year period half a tree gives its life for this Read more:block
Product of the month: Call Whisper 2008-08-21 06:50:05 Call Whisper
is a neat new feature that lets you know instantly when your 0800, 0845 and 0844 numbers are being used.When a customer rings your 0800, 0845, 0871 or 0844 number they will hear the normal ringing tone but, when you pick up the phone to answer the call you will instantly hear a brief message saying, for example, "this is call from your 0800 number."If you have an 08 prefix n
DBS Telecoms Billing Platform 2008-08-21 06:39:13 DBS launched its own state of the art billing platform in August 2008 which means DBS telecoms clients will have faster connection times for new numbers and smoother customer service."We are looking forward to handling every aspect of telecoms from connecting new numbers to billing all under one roof" said partner Christine Barron, "owning our own billing platform gives us the flexi Read more:Billing
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Google: 5 things you didn’t know it could do….. 2008-08-20 04:42:48 The Google
search engine at www.google.co.uk has a few tricks up its sleeve that you may not know about. These nifty tools and features may save you time and effort that can be spent on more profitable or rewarding tasks.
Google Conversion Tool
The nifty search engine has its own in built converter. Try typing into the Google search box “4ft 6in in metres” or “23c in Fahrenheit” and you Read more:things
Internet Marketing Secrets: domain name strategy 2008-08-19 05:10:33 If you haven’t registered a domain
name for a new website that you are planning then give it some thought. Although you should be spending time and effort building inbound links to your site you will find that you may naturally attract links without asking for them. The majority of people who link to you without asking will use your web address whether it’s an internal page or your home page. Read more:Internet
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Google Adwords Keyword Tool 2008-08-12 06:00:05 Google Adwords
has updated their Keyword
Search Tool which now returns approximate search volume statistics.
The secret of attracting traffic to a website is to carry out sound keyword research. If you build a website that reflects the actual terms that people type into search engines then you will have a massive advantage over your competition. It’s a hackneyed phrase but if you carry out the Read more:Google
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Internet Marketing & Google’s New Teleportation Search Facility! 2008-07-22 04:46:38 Google have introduced a second search bar to help its users get more specific results.
The new program, known as 'teleporting', acts an additional filter for large and popular sites such as Amazon and the New York Times. Currently being issued at Google's discretion, the feature will adapt usual search procedures to focus specifically on content.
Google commented that "the feature will now Read more:Facility
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Internet Marketing vs Yellow Pages!!! 2008-07-14 05:42:00 To most companies, advertising in YellowPages
is the unshakeable cornerstone of their annual marketing spend and they would no more think of cancelling it than they would hire David Brent as office manager.
Surely Yellow Pages is established, recognised everywhere and enjoys strong distribution. It’s expensive, but is there any alternative?
A moderately sized quarter of half page ad is lookin Read more:Internet
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How to block and stop junk faxes 2008-07-14 03:39:30 It’s Monday morning and you enter the office to see that the fax machine is half submerged by one weekends worth unsolicited faxes.
The “green” side of your conscience tells you that half a tree gave its life for this pile of unwanted rubbish. The business side of you kicks and you realise that these faxes are burning up your ink and your paper.
So how do you stop it….
It’s simple: ri Read more:block
Internet Marketing Secrets: Link Building 2008-07-11 06:21:58 To a large degree your success in search engine results will depend on your inbound linking strategy.
You have probably seen links in the pages of a web site. Links can take you to another page in the same web site or to a totally different web site. Links are the "blue bits" on a web page and usually look like this:
The link above is an inbound link for The Read more:Building
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Internet Marketing Consultant Shares Findings about Yell.com’s new Netreach Opportunity! 2008-07-08 03:35:31 Netreach is an opportunity to export your business information across the Yell.com network as well as a wide range of its partner sites and companies. The increased exposure can be of real benefit to your business, rapidly increasing your target market and giving you more specific and up to date client leads.
What are the benefits of advertising with Netreach by Yell.com?
Netreach adverts are Read more:Consultant
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90% Overall Satisfaction Rating 2008-06-10 04:25:15 David Clarke, partner of DBS, recently ran a one day Internet Marketing Course for the Time For You Group Of Companies franchisees.
The tailor made course took place at the Bentley Hotel in Lincoln.
The delegates gave the course an overall 90% satisfaction rating.
This is some of the feedback given:
"All those who intend using the internet for business should do this training!"
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Google Pay Per Click Spoofing Emails Are On The Rise 2008-04-17 05:28:07 DBS & Google
have become aware of 'spoofing' emails sent to some AdWords advertisers recently. 'Spoofing' refers to the act of fraudulently altering certain properties of an email to make it appear as though it originated from a legitimate source. The email can then lead to a deceptive website which collects sensitive personal information. In this case, the email may have appeared to be from Read more:Click
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DBS Client Scoops Best Online Award 2008-04-10 12:38:27 DBS client Hudson Moody have won the Best Online Estate Agent Award
at the prestigious Estate Agent & Letting Agent Awards for 2008 sponsored by the Property Search Group (PSG), Findaproperty.com and supported by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS.
Ben Hudson, of Hudson Moody Estate Agents in York received the award at a ceremony at the Grosvenor Park Hotel in London this week Read more:Client
Pay-Per-Click: 8 Measures To Take To Get The Right Company 2008-03-31 09:37:42 With the advent of internet marketing there has been a rise in pay per click advertising.With pay-per-click, your company pays a certain agreed amount to an advertising company every time someone clicks on the link to your business.Some companies will try to generate fake clicks on your site to try and make easy money. Similarly, your competitors may click on your link and increase your bill Read more:Click
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Mobile Phone Advertising - an Untapped Market? 2008-03-31 05:08:05 Internet use on mobile phones is predicted to go from 475 million minutes in 2008 to 1000 million minutes by 2011.
So far, records in the USA show that mobile advertising spend has doubled from 2006 to 2008 and is predicted to quadruple to $16,000 million by 2011.
The UK market is following suit with mobile internet use on the increase. 17 million people in the UK accessed the internet via a Read more:Advertising
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Yell.com Pay Per Click Advertising 2008-03-04 02:56:41 There is no set price for yell.com keywords. You choose how much you are willing to pay for each click-through. Minimum bid is 20p. The more you pay the higher up the list you will appear, so, the advertiser who bids the most for a keyword will be shown first.
The pay per click listings will appear when a searcher looks UK wide (the default search) or specifies a county. The pay per click Read more:Advertising
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0800 Numbers - 8 Great Benefits 2008-03-03 04:16:20 A free phone number allows your customers and potential customers to call you for free. For a reasonable rate, you can increase your business by allowing callers to contact you without cost. This acts as an added bonus to a client when subscribing to your service. Having a free phone 0800 number translates to having a low-cost, easy and effective marketing device which can dramatically increase Read more:Benefits
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0800 Numbers – 10 things to look out for before buying 2008-02-28 01:27:02 0800 numbers offer massive advantages to businesses but buying them can be a minefield if you are not prepared. This article examines 10 things
to look out for before buying an 0800 number.
0800 numbers allow your customers to call you without being charged. This not only increases the amount of calls your business receives, it also gives you the chance to measure which of your services are Read more:Numbers
0845 in - 0800 out?? 2008-02-28 01:12:02 The popularity of 0845 numbers is outstripping Free Phone 0800 numbers. Recent search engine statistics for February 2008 show that online purchases of 0845 numbers outweighed 0800 numbers by a factor of 3 to 1.
In recent years 0800 has been seen to be the way to go. Business people have known that they can attract potential customers with the lure of a free phone call so why this change in
Have your Gatineau and eat it too! 2008-02-13 08:58:20 Google have offered a free web analytics package for several years now to its customers in the UK. Our American cousins have also been able to take advantage of Microsoft’s analytics package called “Gatineau”.
Microsoft announced today that it has open up Gatineau Analytics to international users as well including the UK.“Due to the overwhelming demand from customers outside the United St
eBay entrepreneurs 2008-02-05 05:24:50 Nearly 180,000 people are now buying and selling for a living on eBay, the auction website.
The home-based entrepreneurs are generating an estimated £2bn - exceeding W.H. Smith eBay said yesterday.
Over the past two years people using eBay as their first or secondary source of income has more than doubled from 68,000. The site has 15m hits a month.
There is a North/South divide of eBay
Google in Yell.com takeover rumour 2008-01-14 04:41:04 Rumours are circulating regarding a possible takeover of Yell.com by Google
. Yell.com shares recently rose 4.4% - the largest increase since December 2006.
The Yell.com customer database would present a great route to market for Google's services. Read more:rumour
Using a Blog to promote your business in search engine results 2008-01-13 09:11:42 If you don't all ready know what a blog is then it will benefit you to quickly read through my article What's A Blog?
Blogs are a very simple website that anyone can add to without any web development skills at all. If you can use Word you can easily add to a blog. Blogs can be given a "skin" so they look exactly like the exisiting pages of your website. You are probably familiar with G Read more:results
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It's always good to receive feedback on how well we are doing.
The editors of blogged.com reviewed our blog and have given it an 8.2 score out of 10 in the Business/Marketing category of Blogged.com. This is quite an achievement!
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Legal Top Spots on Google 2008-11-21 02:55:03 DBS has helped its legal services clients achieve top spots on the UK’s most popular search engine – Google
.
Our clients are currently ranking in these positions on Google UK.
Solicitor Telford #1, #2
Solicitor Shropshire #3, #4
Solicitor Portsmouth #1
Solicitor Hampshire #2
Solicitor Rugby #1
Solicitor Warwickshire #3
Solicitor London