Category Archives: business

What cash flow?

Cash flow and use the funds to help grow your business is a balancing act that needs the skills of a tightrope walker who is prepared to walk across the Grand Canyon without a safety net. The ironic thing is, the more you invoice the more you can borrow, which means the more you potential earn the deeper you can get into debt, funding grows with sales. Capitalism is a strange fish…… 

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A schematic map of your website

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XML Sitemap protocol allows a webmaster, site owner or business to inform search engines about the pages on a website that are available for crawling. Likewise you can keep some pages ‘private’ by not listing them and providing there are no other links on your site to these private pages they will not be read by Search Engines. A search engine is not ‘magic’ you have to invite them in to crawl your pages, you have to open the door for them.
Complicated concepts when explained in a simple way make things easier to understand. Knowledge enables understanding, a schematic plan, a diagram or a map, is a key or a link to this understanding.  A Sitemap is an XML file (and this is exactly what it  is, a schematic map of your website) that lists the URLs contained on a site and contains additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.
Once you have created an XML sitemap and have loaded it up to your site what do you do with it? Google recommends you to first submit your Sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools. This means you will be able to validate your site, claiming ownership or access rights to the site, informing them you are responsible for updating, managing or optimizing etc. This will ensure that your Sitemap details are in your Webmaster Tools. In addition to your Webmaster Tools, you can also submit (and resubmit) your Sitemap using the following methods:
• Sending a HTTP request to Google
• Including your Sitemap location in your robots.txt file
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Where to start?

There are lots of things that are important when creating a business website……but where to start? Each bit needs another bit….but which bit first?
Placing your idea or product on the Internet involves several complicated, interwoven elements, each one is dependent and relies on another. This ‘spaghetti’, which can be an utter tangled mess, is vital for online success. You need a strategy that can combine the skills of the participants (key company members) which can deliver your final product, convey your style, in an easily digestible manner  – your clients need to be able to access and purchase your products with ease. This structure has to be created using a system that both creators and users can understand.
This conundrum is similar to the problem artists have when creating a work of art – the final image  requires a parallel set of decision making processes.

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Society is a network

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 is connected to the horse’s spine, a thought to turn right feels like it happens imediatly, you feel as one. This is a bizarre feeling but is an example of an organic plug in network. This feeling can be reproduced in a small business context.

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#hosting – ‘Green’ web site

 North Devon web belongs to a network of websites that host in a green way.  North Devon Web is helping to prevent the release of 2,660 metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year by hosting on ‘Green Servers’ – as a result,  the network’s energy efficiency is equivalent to planting approximately 2,390 acres of trees, not driving 6.1 million miles, or removing 510 cars from the road.

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