All over Britain in the next couple of weeks you won’t be able to move for the colour orange. Pumpkins, witches hats and broomsticks are already on sale everywhere because, like it or not, you will be caught up in the “trick or treat” craze that is Halloween. A week

Postal workers are out on strike – the second time in a week – which means we have no post. Not only will people who have birthdays this week go without cards and pressies, businesses will lose cash because orders will be delayed or cheques won’t arrive on time. However,

Online business owners are consumed by getting traffic to their web site. The phrase “web site traffic” generates over 1.5m results in Google, for instance. Plus there are endless streams of newsletters and blogs that tell you how to increase your traffic. All fantastic, but all useless. Web site traffic

You are a special kind of person. No, I’m not just being nice to you, though I don’t want to be nasty. Actually, the fact that you are reading this article about Internet business means you are interested in the whole notion of online business activities. Well guess what, new

Online business will do very well today in England, even though it is a Bank Holiday and we are all supposed to be “resting”. What tosh! The “Bank Holiday” concept – and British politicians want to increase them – are from an idea that is past its prime, to say

Online business owners often wonder should they have a .com or a .co.uk web site address. There is a whole plethora of – conflicting – advice on this subject. So, it’s probably best to go to the people who matter – your audience. Internet users expect a .co.uk domain name

Airline passengers are having a tough time. But not for long. Today saw the news that British Airways faced record fines for price fixing. Meanwhile BAA, the owners of London Heathrow are seeking an injunction to ban people from the airport who want to protest about environmental issues. The ban

Online business owners are mostly facing the wrong way. They are all looking at the technological solutions to improving their business. You will find that several Internet marketing experts will tell you that the “secret” is in analytics – knowing exactly which pages your visitors go to, the route they

Business leaders often get asked what business are they in. Few can answer. Sit down at any business networking lunch, or go to a conference and chat to business owners. Ask them what they do and you will usually get a long-winded answer listing a whole load of services, or

Google has dug deep into its pockets again and spent $625m – in cash – to buy a little known security firm Postini. The acquisition – the third major one this year by Google – is an important step forward in the delivery of online applications. For some years now

Senior executives in nearly 3,000 global businesses regret not taking action sooner on using new Internet technologies. According to researchers at McKinsey business leaders see the benefits of blogging, online networking and so on, but many of them wish they had started using such techniques earlier on. They clearly feel

Criminals are having fine old time online. Indeed, yesterday The Pentagon had to shut down its entire email system because it had been broken into by hackers. This news comes less than a week after a study showed that almost half of online businesses are victims of cybercrime. The editor

Online business owners sometimes complain that their competitors are gaining more custom, yet their products and services are not as good. Indeed, that’s not a complaint restricted to online businesses. At a networking lunch the other day one business owner was complaining that his competition seemed to get more attention,

Online business owners have been targeting computer users and techno-friendly people for the past decade. Now it seems that the dominance of computing and technology for online shoppers has been toppled. According to a survey run by Foresters Research, online business has become “mainstream” shifting computing from its Number One

Shoppers across the UK will descend on out of town stores today in a bid to get the bargains. That’s because today is a public holiday – called a “bank holiday” in the UK. However, even though it’s officially a “day off” many of the stores will be open and

If you look through any of the online news sources, such as Google News, you will notice that there are few business stories that have surfaced in the last 24 – 48 hours. That is not surprising in some ways, after all we have just been through the weekend. The