What do you get when you have a representative of Microsoft, Network Solutions, and Google sitting on the same stage? A fight, no, but some of the most successful companies at attracting customers and keeping them loyal to a product or service. So what did they have to say at the Small Business Technology Summit?
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“Find and Keep Customers for Life,” was the byline for the 2009 Small Business Technology Summit, which I attended on Tuesday, Feb. 3. A number of industry leaders gave presentations on social media, search engine marketing, and web applications. The first presentation I attended was on Search Engine marketing by Network Solutions. Here are my notes and an awesome rap video that sums it up.
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I’m sure this has been going on for a while, but I just became aware of this when the conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, setup the blog readthestimulus.org. Making H.R. 1, “The Economic Stimulus Package” accessible in a very real way. Using a few applications.
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What do you do if the wordpress e-commerce (wp-ecommerce) buy now shortcode doesn’t work? In WP-ecommerce you can add a shortcode to allow customers to buy your product from any post or page by entering a shortcode like this:
[buy_now_button=3]
What if nothing displays?
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It does take more than one to run a one person show! You may be a solopreneur (someone who is a business of one) i.e. a councilor, web technician, accountant, business coach, yet to be truly successful and keep going when the going gets tough, you need a team of support of many. Let’s list some of the support you may need to run a truly successful business.
It’s almost essential to have the following:
One idea I had was to allow users to have their entire desktops living on external servers. This would allow them to access everything including files and programs from anywhere they had internet access. There are a few Citrix hosts out there, but they generally only support major applications and are fairly expensive.
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