Many people set up a business email address through their Internet Service Provider rather than their domain name. This is a mistake.

Do you have any of the following types of email address for your business?

• yourbusiness@shaw.ca
• yourbusiness@att.net
• yourbusiness@telus.com
• yourbusiness@hotmail.com
• yourbusiness@yahoo.com

If you answered, “Yes” to any of these, you have made a strategic error which can be corrected. Why promote the service provider when you should be promoting your business? Where is the address of your website, the key ingredient of your Internet cake? Why are you hiding the website’s address?

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Either as a web designer or a business owner, there are not enough hours in the day to work on your client’s or business website. As budgets get stretched and time becomes more valuable, larger projects can get put on hold. But this doesn’t mean there aren’t some affordable, high impact ways to boost your website and its search engine ranking.

Here are some quick tips to get you going.

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So how was it for you?

As a business owner, it can be healthy to look back at the year from both a positive and negative viewpoint. Learning from your mistakes and seeing what can be improved is a great way to improve your business and correct anything which might be going astray or needs attention. It can also give you a clear head and focus your energies come the New Year! So here is our review of 2008.

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