Business Start Up Tip 12: Security and SSL Certificates and Wildcards
If you have a login on your web site with usernames and passwords or process financial credit card transactions, you need to add an SSL Certificate to your web site and change the users login and access from http:// to https:// When users go to a site starting with https:// it will show the lock icon on their browser assuming the SSL certficate is valid. SSL is all about security encryption. It creates an encrypted link between a Hosting firm’s web server and a user’s…
Business Start Up Tip 11: Test Your Site On Different Web Browsers
You may think that your html web code should look the same in internet browsers such as: Internet Explorer, Safari, FireFox, Chrome, etc… but that is not always the case as the different vendors sometimes have different rules on CSS file elements as well has header sizes. Even within Internet Explorer going back to version 6, there are differences between that version and Internet Explorer version 9 that came out earlier this year. So test your web site on all the browser platforms. Good idea…
Business Start Up Tip 10: Auto Post From Your Blog Site To
Set up a FaceBook (http://www.facebook.com) account for your business and a Twitter (http://www.twitter.com) account for your business. In Business Start Up Tip 9 we told you about setting up a Business Blog site. Now you can set up free auto posting so that posts from your Blog site automatically show up on your FaceBook and Twitter accounts with hyperlinks back to the blog post so that people that find you on FaceBook and Twitter can link back to the full post on your Blog site.…
Business Start Up Tip 9: Set up a business blog web site
Set up a business blog web site with free standard blogging software called WordPress. You could set up this business blog web site on a Windows hosting plan but the preferred hosting blog platform is Linux. Click on this link for some low rates for your business blog web site: Linux Hosting Plan . WordPress blogging software is free. For more information on blog and business software installations and free blog software from WordPress, click on this link: http://www.sozohosting.com/knowledge/wordpress-installs.cfm
Business Start Up Tip 8: Promote Your site In As Many Ways As You Can
Business Tip 8: Get your message out using as many ways as you can. Business cards with your web site name and email id are basic but look for other ways like getting on free web site listing services(see link below) ,Google Maps, etc. Do you have an advertising budget? If not, how do you expect the world to hear about you? Word of mouth may work for you but takes a long time for the word to spread. Look at all types of web…
Business Start Up Tip 7: Promote your web site for FREE
Business Tip 7: Start off this using different free services on the web such as https://www.webfullpagead.com/freewhitepagelistings.aspx and get your website and free ad caption listed on 20+ business directories for free. Promote to your web site to increase your web presence and ultimately increase your search engine rankings! For more business consulting tips click on http://www.biznessstartup.com
Business Start Up Tip 6
Business Tip 6: Do you need to do any Training or Presenting worldwide? Skype is good for people to people conversations and it has some screen sharing options with people you grant access so it could be the solution for you. However it is not flexible enough for showing screens on your computer to your web audiences when you dont know all the people who will be jumping in on the web conference. We recommend using a special type of web conferencing service that makes…
Business Start Up Tip 5
Business Tip 5: Need to hire on a short or long term basis? The big corporations use the big firms where people are looking for full time jobs but the small start up firms often need a different resource pool for temporary people that they can hire to quickly upsize or downsize to meet the changes in their business requirements. Some of these resource pools can be found on http://www.elance.com and http://www.craigslist.org For more business consulting tips click on http://www.biznessstartup.com
Business Start Up Tip 4
Business Tip 4: For small businesses there are firms that do all your employee tax govement submissions for you for a flat monthly fee so you never worry about what is the right net amount (after all government deductions) to write out an employee salary check for, nor submitting the employer and employee ongoing payroll taxes. Small Business Payroll services are around $20/month. For more business consulting tips click on http://www.biznessstartup.com
Business Start Up Tip 3
Business Tip 3: Take security seriously. Security for PCs at home and at the office, security for client web payments by choosing the right SSL certiicate with 2048 bit encryption, security in the web applications to stop hackers, stop SQL injections, stop Phishing and othe fradulent activities. Only do business (payments) on web sites that have https:// as the start of the web address as the s after the http should also show a lock icon on your web browser to show the transactions are…
Business Start Up Tip 2
Business Tip 2. Designing your web site(s) for SEO. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization which is critical if you are going to be easily found on the web. Choosing a cheap free web site template is not a good idea unless it is programmed for SEO. Search Engine Optimization is understand how the major search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing work and programming your web site so that you get higher rankings in these search engines. You could have the best artistic web site…