Are Google helping or hindering your business?

Bottin Cartographes have successfully brought a law suit against Google in France, claiming that Google has been anti-competitive when offering their free Google Maps API service to businesses, and that this is not competitive with it’s own services. This is a very interesting case.

Does your business benefit or is it hindered by Google? Here are my thoughts…

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Creating Facebook Welcome and other pages

Do you want to add a welcome page to Facebook, and perhaps one that displays in two different ways depending whether the visitor has already ‘liked’ you or not? You can even go one step further and add other tabs (Facebook terminology for navigational links in your Facebook sidebar).

Add a great looking Welcome page to your Facebook page

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Top reasons to host your blog on your website

11 good reasons to host your blog content on the same website as your business website rather than on independant blogging sites

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Email Auto-responders

I don’t like email auto-responders. They wind me up and rarely, if ever, tell me anything useful. Anyway, here’s an interesting list of good and bad email auto-responders that I have personally received.

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When blogging and microblogging meet

I blog a bit and I tweet (microblog) a bit too. I try not to over-do the tweeting as I don’t like seeing tweets every 5 minutes from the people I follow and I’m sure my followers don’t want to see me do the same. In fact, over-tweeting is the number 1 reason that prompts [...]

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Scheduled mailshots at Christmas – acceptable?

One of the websites that I operate sends a series of hints and tips to subscribed members on a regular basis. These are sent automatically using CRON by the website according to the schedule (daily / weekly / monthly / never) chosen by the member, and there is no intervention on my part. I received [...]

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