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The value of email newsletters and search for gaining customers

I have written quite a few times about the value of having a growing website featuring new articles about your work, but also the value of having a regular newsletter.

A study in the US of people making purchases found that whilst search was still th

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What a waste of money that was...

Hi everyone.

I wanted to introduce myself, explain how I believe I can add a bit of help to the forum (even though I am not a landscape gardener) and gather some genuine feedback from gardeners around the country in the process.

I'm Mike, and have been

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Give others your garden projects to 'tweet, like and share'

I have detected a certain cynicism on the network when it comes to 'tweets, likes and shares' - and you know what I think you are right.

Because many people only spend their time doing 'tweets, likes and shares' so you end up seeing the same things g

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O'NeillLandscapers Group new website!!

Hello everyone i have just designed a new website for my business O'Neill Landscapes Group based in north wales id like to know peoples thoughts on the overall impression of the site and any technical defect of ideas, P.S  please do not hold back on

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getagardener.co.uk update

Did you use a free trial posted to you with a prom code?

 

I had numerous emails for quotes and picked the areas/jobs suitable , in the end i did 2 quotes locally in my putney area and got 2 jobs (all done and paid) .   i also have another waiting due

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Free web icons for your website

Building a website or want to add professional looking icons to an existing one?

This handy Icon Finder site as thousands of free icons to download:

http://www.iconfinder.com/

 

note: some icons have to be paid for so check terms and prices.

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New website - opinions and HELP!

I've finally finished my website look - just need to work on tweaking SMO SEO etc.

 

Please could you take a look.

www.dclandscapes.com

 

I work in Google Chrome, and I'm really pleased with it. However, it looks awful in IE9 as it insists on highlighting

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Buying on the Internet

One of the claims made about buying stuff on the internet is that it saves you time. Am I alone in thinking that is nonsense? To take a recent personal example, I needed a new tool bag. After working out roughly what I wanted, I did a search and star

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Common sense victory for internet libel laws

"Bloggers, tweeters and other internet users who post instant criticisms of artists, politicians and television shows have been granted new protection from libel claims. The Supreme Court strengthened the defence of "fair comment" yesterday, bringing

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Google AdWords

i have a £75 and a £50       free to use before 20th dec, and 31st dec.

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Where do we go from here.

I do a fair bit of thinking, I suppose it might be my age. In the time I have been ambling about on the planet things have changed in some ways beyond all recognition. I can remember the time when owning a television set was a rareity and the excitem

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You are a valued member of a thriving professional community - thank you

I was having a chat with Craig McGinty this morning and we got on to discussing the site's activity and how there's barely time to draw a breath when a new topic replaces one on the activity feed. When I told Craig about the projected traffic for Oct

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Who owns garden design copyright?

Here's a puzzler for the garden designers.

On our blog we sometimes post case studies of a completed design project, where we go in-depth through a project from the initial brief and site visit, right through to the completed garden. We include phot

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First websites

Just been surfing the net looking for stuff and came accross this site:http://www.gbbo.co.uk/Thought it maybe of use if you are looking for a t'internet presence but don't want to part with any cash or are working on a shoestring budget.

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Social media tips and examples

I have seen a few people dip their toes into the world of social media and use sites such as Twitter and Facebook. In the past day or so I've crossed a couple of articles that might prove interesting and spark some ideas for those who are keen to lea

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Getting Noticed By Yahoo!

Hi all,I've spent the last couple of months raising my profile on Google in a vain attempt to get the phone ringing again!Producing Blogspot posts, uploading videos to Youtube, uploading my SketchUp models to Google 3D warehouse, using Google Maps Lo

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Update to the network's badges

There has been a slight change to the buttons that you can use to highlight your membership of the network to enable them to blend in better with your own business websites. The Badges Page now allows you to change the background colour and the colou

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Giving titles to your images

Great to see new photographs being uploaded, and I'm not slapping your wrists, but do take a little time on giving them proper titles. Like all parents say, 'it will do you some good in the long run' :-) More here: Using images effectively to improve

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Yell earnings review

I know quite a few people either use Yellow Pages and Yell.com, or at least get constant calls from their sales reps! So I though you might be interested in a write up of its recent earnings review: Earnings: Yell.com Grows Online, But Over Tenth Of

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Linking to other websites from comments and posts

Just a quick pointer as I've seen people looking to link to other websites in their forum comments and blog posts, which is great to see, but not making them live links. It is not too difficult to do, take a look over this piece from the archive - Li

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