Bussiness search survival

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It is important to survive and once your site is accepted by the search engines, with time, maturity will make you more successful. Being around on the web for a few years is better than being the new kid on the block.

To be effective, you must be able to find your web site based on keywords or search terms – which prospective clients may enter into a search box on a Search Engine when looking for your product or service. It is vital Search Engines direct traffic to your website’s content.

Recycle your business webpages

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You can spend hours and hours staring at a blank screen, surfing the web fooling yourself you are working. If you actually analyze the amount of time you spend doing nothing...

The search for new content is a crucial day to day exercise to show your returning visitors that pages are being updated. This task becomes almost impossible when you have nearly said everything there is to say. Try to re-package your blogs content or your websites information and widen your audience - not everyone reacts to the same information in the same way, some people like to read blogs and some like to read more structured information and content.

Recycle your ideas to rejuvenate your website, blog or product description.

Business struggling to make a profit

Reports and rumors reveal that e-commerce spending is becoming polarized, with websites like lovemoney.com advising readers not to buy products like books (recommending swap sites, bookmooch.com and readitswapit.co.uk) advising their readers to use these alternatives instead of Amazon etc. On the surface this cheap, recycling, money saving piece advise sounds like a good idea but...

Industries like the book industry are struggling to make a profit so advising people not to buy new books not only puts retailers out of business - do you have an independent book seller on the high street of your town? - it also means there will be fewer 'quality' publications physically published and new authors will be unable to make a living, simply because they will have to self publish.

People are constantly looking for free promotions from businesses and are no longer prepared to pay a fare price for things. We have appeared to embraced the ‘something for nothing’ culture and are consequently (probably) destroying the fundamental laws of capitalism… Continue reading →

If you want to read a book for free why not use your local Library? Closures of this fine institution are imminent due to lack of support from the general public so instead of sitting in front of your computer looking for free deals why not go to the Library and get the real deal! Not only do you get a free book the author of the book you borrow will get a small micro payment - that seems a more fair deal to me.

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Web presence

Small businesses need to increase their web presence effectively and cheaply. There are a lot of free, and exceptional efficient tools out there and some are more powerful than others – getting your products into search engines – and a lot are more effective than some expensive, branded software. Blogger.com is one of those great free tools and WordPress is another … Continue reading →

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Mark your calendars: WordCamp San Francisco, the official annual WordPress conference, will be August 12-14, 2011. This year will mark the 5th anniversary of WordCamp, and as always will feature Matt Mullenweg’s “State of the Word” address as well as a variety of amazing speakers that you’d normally only get to see at expensive industry conferences. Read more...

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Marketing performance

By targeting your market audience through detailed keyword analysis, enables you to promote quality lead generation and create a dynamic SEO campaign. Use off site SEO strategies. Use non-paid link building techniques to increase your website's perceived market relevance within your outlined market sector. However, a little belief in superstition and myth helps.

You can't really afford to be to obscure about your products, you need to know what you are and who you are. To achieve success you need an understanding of your industry and to be able to identify your marketing performance indicators. Understand your online & offline competitors and measure your search engine visibility against them.

Good business practice

Posted on February 22, 2011 by admin

Green hosting has really got to be the way forward, a responsible micro step for good business practice. North Devon Web can help you with this impactful business strategy. Email us and we can point you in the right direction. … Continue reading →

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Vital marketing strategy

Posted on February 21, 2011 by admin

Your web presence is important, a  vital link between ‘you’ and ‘them’. This is a vital marketing strategy:  information is power and sharing information increases your presence  and ultimately sales. We can offer a web design  package that can start … Continue reading →

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Growing internet business

Posted on February 20, 2011 by admin

Do you have a visible business? What are you doing to get your company noticed? Most of us tinker and mess about with our code, search words and tags, in the hopes of growing our internet business. As a marketing … Continue reading →

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Julie Peel - Music to SEO to

Here we are again, sat in front of my trusty old Mac, fiddling with code for my clients who want to get their website onto page one of Google. Keywords and search terms - this solitary career in SEO is sometimes a very lonely existence.... Time for a music break.

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An email mentioning this track dropped into my inbox ages ago and I listened to it - forgot about it and then I suddenly found myself humming it - I like it.

Julie Peel's “Living In A Movie” is her first single from “Near The Sun” It was recorded in Stockholm with Andreas Dahlbäck, (producer and drummer for Anna Ternheim, Nina Kinert and Jona Lee) and Cyrille Catois, a famous bass player from the Jazz scene. 

The Music video for the single was directed by Audrey Culver from MTV, and shot in New York. The album was mixed at Gary Smith’s (producer for The Pixies, Natalie Merchant, Juliana Hatfield…).

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Business Search Results:

It is important for your business to survive and and get your website accepted by the search engines. With time, maturity will make you more successful. Being around on the web for a few years is better than being the new kid on the block – just hang in there and create a successful history around your business.

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Compete with giants

Posted on February 10, 2011 by admin

Small businesses have to compete with the big guys. In the UK giants like Tesco are dominating and controlling the market place – their size enables them to slash prices. Products are sold at a low prices, at cost or … Continue reading →

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Festival website goes green

Posted on February 10, 2011 by admin

West Buckland Festival website is powered by 100% wind energy. The machines hosting their site and e-mail are fully eco-friendly! As energy awareness continues to grow, people are not just looking to make lifestyle adjustments, they want to make environmentally … Continue reading →

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Going out of business?

Posted on February 10, 2011 by admin

Is your business dead? Do you have a visible business? What are you doing to get your company noticed? Most of us tinker and mess about with our code, search words and tags, in the hopes of growing our internet … Continue reading →

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Business visibility

Posted on January 28, 2011 by admin

Do you have a visible business? What are you doing to get your company noticed? Most of us tinker and mess about with our code, search words and tags, in the hopes of growing our internet business. Most people seem … Continue reading →

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Our green business services

Posted on January 29, 2011 by admin

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Green Web Design and hosting links

Having an environmentally-friendly site is a great accomplishment and a great selling point. The links below are to articles that link to green hosting and green design options.

Festival website goes green

Posted on February 10, 2011 by admin

West Buckland Festival website is powered by 100% wind energy. The machines hosting their site and e-mail are fully eco-friendly! As energy awareness continues to grow, people are not just looking to make lifestyle adjustments, they want to make environmentally … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 10, 2011 by admin

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Green business services Devon

Posted on February 3, 2011 by admin

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Green webpage package

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Art Sale

Broomhill Art Hotel near Barnstaple, Devon  still have a few of Peter Bright's paintings available for sale. Examples of his work are in collections in the USA, Switzerland, France and many other European countries.

 

Address: Broomhill Art Hotel, Barnstaple, Devon, EX31 4EX

Website: www.broomhillart.co.uk

Email: info@broomhillart.co.uk

Telephone: 01271 850262

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A new exhibition of prints and smaller works is planned for June 2011. Below is an extract from his blog:

In preparation for an exhibition in June I have begun to draw again. My previous methodology relied on me subcontracting my creativity to either ‘chance’, allowing the medium to take partial control over the finished image or by letting the computer system deal with my creativity in its prescriptive manner – the program has ways of dealing with commands in a very limit way, hacking the software is the only way of producing images that are different from our everyday visual blitzkrieg of imagery…we are subjected to via the Internet, the printed page and video.

Going back to the basic skills of drawing is an interesting excursion – a journey I’m not sure I will complete. Drawing a life model for the first times in decades was a bit daunting but old tricks and shortcuts were soon remembered and in many respects drawing is a bit like riding a bicycle.

Compete with giants

Small businesses have to compete with the big guys. In the UK giants like Tesco are dominating and controlling the market place - their size enables them to slash prices. Products are sold at a low prices, at cost or below cost, this strategy is called loss leaders, this tactic is employed to stimulate other profitable sales. This kind of sales promotion is marketing based on a pricing strategy.

People are constantly looking for free promotions from businesses and are no longer prepared to pay a fare price for things. We have appeared to embraced the ‘something for nothing’ culture  and are consequently (probably) destroying the fundamental laws of … Continue reading →

Smaller businesses can not compete with these giants and consequently our high streets are becoming devoid of independent stores. This is now being echoed on the Internet with online businesses having to streamline there activities.

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Our team at  North Devon Web can provide a full range of services that will help you achieve your goals. We can repair and add new exciting features and functionality to your site. Whether your project will take minutes or  hours,  we are available to help you each step of the way. 'Green' web site - hosting is available from us.

• Ensure good search engine optimization is employed
• Help to get your business into search engines 
• We can host websites on 100% wind energy servers
• We offer very affordable hosting and design packages
• Get your project delivered within a specific time frame
• Perform regular maintenance on your website
• Send out professional HTML newsletters
• Reduce your project costs
• Build forms, databases, blogs and forums
• Design images and logos
• Test your site's navigation

If you are in the North Devon area, by the surfing coast of Woolacombe, Croyde, and Saunton or near  Exmoor, Barnstaple, South Molton or Ilfracombe why not go and indulge yourself in Broomhill Art Hotel, eat good food and listen to some cool music. 

Finn Peters – Music Of The Mind Live: Thu 17 Feb 2011 • 20:00 @ Broomhill  - Fun and funky, Finn Peters’ Music Of The Mind, sounds like nothing you ever heard before as Peters and his band offer a thrilling combination … Continue reading →

Festival website goes green

West Buckland Festival website is powered by 100% wind energy. The machines hosting their site and e-mail are fully eco-friendly! As energy awareness continues to grow, people are not just looking to make lifestyle adjustments, they want to make environmentally responsible decisions, this site is powered by renewable energy. Contact North Devon Web for details on how to make your business website more in tune with today's responsible business (moral and environmental) obligations.

The Festival will start on Thursday 8th and end on the late evening of Sunday 11th September 2011

Thursday evening:

The Festival will commence at 7p.m on Thursday when The Gallery Exhibition will be open for viewing in St Peter’s Church. There will be a Special Preview, between 7 and 9pm; and this year we shall have another innovation – a series of Mini Master Classes, when visitors will have the opportunity to listen to and discuss with some of the Artists and Crafts people (with easels or craft tools and equipment). They will be in attendance to talk about their work to small groups of people in different parts of St Peter’s Church. We shall publish details of who will do short talks/ demonstrations of their work at a later date. First class refreshments will be available as well as wine and soft drinks. Many Works of art will be for sale.

Friday evening:

This year we shall have a special Classical Concert featuring well known music composed in the 19th and early 20th century – Paganini, Bizet, Ravel, Grieg and maybe a touch of Elgar. We shall, as always feature some young musicians near the top of their skills. Many will come from North Devon but will be at Music Schools around the UK.

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Thought for the day

'It pays to read it before you cut and pasty.'

Business website?

Don't let your business die.

Your website is important, a  vital link between ‘you’ and ‘them’. This is probably your most important marketing tool - Information is power and sharing information increases your presence  and ultimately sales. We can offer a web design  package that can start … Continue reading →

Try your hand at real search engine optimisation, look at your site and fix those broken links, update the content, sort out the keywords and phrases. Harnessing the power of the Internet to improve your website’s rank in the search engine results pages is a way to achieve your dreams. Be more positive and proactive with your time, improve and inspire, corral your visitors and steer them towards your products. Create a cage that keeps them locked into your site; tame them so they don't want to leave. Set your traps carefully and take money from your visitors.

Do you have a visible business? What are you doing to get your company noticed? Most of us tinker and mess about with our code, search words and tags, in the hopes of growing our internet business. Most people seem … Continue reading →

Insane optimization?

Don't drive yourself insane - worrying yourself into an early grave or running yourself ragged trying to keep up with the latest SEO techniques. Utilizing relevant keywords with in the text of your web site is employing effective Website Optimization Techniques - it is that simple.

We can offer a web design  package that can start from as little as £350.00 We can also build you a  website if you want us to on your existing server. There are several  options available, contact us for a competitive quote. Having an  environmentally-friendly site is a great accomplishment and a great  selling point. Let your site visitors know your site has gone green by  letting us build you a low carbon web site. Read more…

Simple techniques enable Search Engines to access and index your website, extracting relevant and related words within the content of your pages, thus promoting the goods and services you offer to your prospective clients. Successful Search Engine Optimisation Techniques require an understanding of logic and a good knowledge of your targeted market. Words have the power to communicate your dreams, search engines enable your dreams to come true.

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Alain Neffe is probably one of the most influential ‘cassette underground’ people around, his Belgian label Insane released many of the 1980′s heroes of the home taping and mail art scenes. Here is an opportunity to get a collectors edition … Continue reading →

Posted on February 7, 2011 by thiswindow

Competition = Marketing?

 Twitter has taught us to edit our content -  you only have 140 creative letters (characters)  to tell or sell your dreams. So create a marketing plan.

There are several ways small and large businesses can  entice prospective clients. One of the simplest and most effective is by running a competition. Here is an example below: To celebrate Valentine’s Day and the publication of Tweetie Pie – … Continue reading →

Posted on February 9, 2011 by admin

Sex

The use of sex in advertising can be highly overt or extremely subtle. It ranges from relatively explicit displays of sexual acts, to the use of basic cosmetics to enhance attractive features. Over the past few decades, the use of … Continue reading →

Business metaphor

The language of business is based on metaphor, ‘The Company grew from a tiny’. There are millions of ‘Art’ viewpoints; some take a position of extreme difficulty or resistance. This position questions everything and is unforgiving. The principal is that … Continue reading →

What are networks?

Society is a network,  business is a network, families are a network… When you ride a horse your body has contact with the horse’s body. If you really get a good contact with a horse it feels like your spine … Continue reading →

Woodcuts = Web sites

"I have begun to think about printing again. The image above is of the first two colors of a woodcut I have started to do. I have decided to walk away from the computer, with its prescriptive software and universal tools, I’m going to move back to the hands on skills I was taught over 30 years ago."

Peter Bright

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An object or thing never has the same functionality as its name or image…. I think Magritte said something like this 80 or so years ago.

A bit of an odd statement but if you think about it it is very true. An inert object (or landscape) can’t tell you what it is, we rely on our experiences through out our lives to explain what we see. If we see a checkered hillside we know that the boundaries (if they are green) are most likely to be hedges and the whiteish blobs are probably sheep contained within the fields. We can estimate the feel of the landscape: warm, cold, steep, flat etc.

Which is why, when building websites it is important to explain what you are selling in language that people can understand and more importantly, can relate to.

Methodology

Conceptual Art tried to destroy the art object but failed – thought and the idea is the object. The primary aims of Conceptual Art in the 1960?s was to carry out a theoretical examination of ‘art’ and through understanding propose ‘concepts as art’. Two and three-dimensional art was in the doldrums, the essence of creating was the new Holy Grail. This was considered to be a bold step, proposing an idea as a work of art left the Artist with very little to exhibit or sell, the written word was usually all that was physically evident….The written word is a powerful tool.

A glimps of sanity(?) - CyLeW

 

It has been a long day and I’ve had enough. There is a rat in the garden that refuses to either die or piss off. It is past midnight and I am still keeping an eye open for him. As … Continue reading →

Product philosophy?

First impressions mean everything and presenting a positive image is the top priority, you need to divulge as much information about your company as you can  – to make your clients feel at ease – as though they are your … Continue reading →

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Zak_Smith

Language and Art

An object or thing never has the same functionality as its name or image…. I think Magritte said something like this 80 or so years ago. A bit of an odd statement but if you think about it it is … Continue reading →

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Zak_Smith

Green webpage package

Your web presence is important, a  vital link between ‘you’ and ‘them’. This is a vital marketing strategy:  information is power and sharing information increases your presence  and ultimately sales. We can offer a web design  package that can start … Continue reading →

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Zak_Smith

Something for nothing culture

We are in the process of helping to re-design http://www.m4tr.co.uk. There are plans to incorporate a section dedicated to independent artist who have released their music on iTunes, Amazon etc. We have become increasingly aware of the bias 'mainstream acts have on all commercial download sites. If you send m4tr your Amazon and iTunes links to your release(s) they will incorporate into a dedicated section on their site. Contact them via M4tr.co.uk

The music industry has been destroyed by this something for nothing culture, with albums being given away for free.

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This is the best place to get downloads by This Window, Veronica Henry and Finish The Story.

Accepted search engines?

It is important to survive and once your site is accepted by the search engines, with time, maturity will make you more successful. Being around on the web for a few years is better than being the new kid on the block – just hang in there and create your own history. Read more...

Amazon MP3

Have you tried buying mp3s from Amazon?

Amazon MP3 offers millions of songs and albums from your various artists in most genres. The downloads are all in MP3 format, which means they can play on any digital media player. Songs from Amazon MP3 can be played on any MP3-capable device, including iPods™, Zunes™, Zens™, iPhones™, RAZRs™, BlackBerrys™, and most media-enabled mobile phones.

The downloaded tracks are free of DRM (digital rights management) software, which means you can, play them on all your computers, transfer them to all your mp3 compatable devices, and burn your songs to CDs. Songs are encoded at high quality 256 kbps - sounds like a good deal to me.

The music industry has been destroyed by this something for nothing culture, with albums being given away for free. Read more...

We are in the process of helping to re-design http://www.m4tr.co.uk. There are plans to incorporate a section dedicated to independent artist who have released their music on iTunes, Amazon etc. We have become increasingly aware of the bias 'mainstream acts have on all commercial download sites. If you send m4tr your Amazon and iTunes links to your release(s) they will incorporate into a dedicated section on their site.

Contact them via M4tr.co.uk.

Download UK Album Cassette Culture 1989 - 2009	Download US Album Cassette Culture 1989 - 2009
You Have The Power	You Have The Power
Highest Mountains	Highest Mountains
Avocets	Avocets
Is This A Dream?	Is This A Dream?
Extract (Live Regensburg Germany)	Extract (Live Regensburg Germany)
Extraction Part 1 [Explicit]	Extraction Part 1 [Explicit]
Extraction Part 2 [Explicit]	Extraction Part 2 [Explicit]
Extraction Part 3 [Explicit]	Extraction Part 3 [Explicit]
Extraction Part 4 [Explicit]	Extraction Part 4 [Explicit]
Hungry Children	Hungry Children
Where Is My Jesus (Jig-saw Man)?	Where Is My Jesus (Jig-saw Man)?
	Where Is My Jesus