Business Tips
Know Your Competitors
This is something many business owners never even think about but it is a good idea to know your competitors. One of the reasons is knowing what you are up against. Think about this, do you think a sports team puts their uniforms on and takes the field with no idea who they’re playing against?…
Read MoreWho’s Doing What
This affects small businesses as well as large corporations way too often we hear “that’s not my job” or “I thought YOU was doing that” and in the end nobody did it and something was overlooked. Many times I think we spend more time on titles than we do on actions. In a small business…
Read MoreKnow Your Customers
Many business owners “think” they know the answer when asked “Who are your customers”, but I find that many times they really don’t know. If they do know they don’t completely “know” their customers. We think about this generically but for marketing purposes and to be better prepared to service your customer base we need…
Read MoreCheaping Out In Your Business
I understand that business starting out are trying to save money but this is one thing I think that holds many businesses back. What I’m talking about is trying to use free or “discount” services to run their business. Now before I get too far, there are cases where there are perfectly good free applications…
Read MoreQuick Website Tip You MUST read
This post is for people that own websites or visit websites, which these days is pretty much anyone correct? As you may or may not know I run a hosting company called That One Hosting – one of the biggest issues I see on any hosted sites is that people are running the WordPress platform…
Read MoreFooling Around With Fonts
Fonts play an important part of many things we do whether we realize it or not. In our day to day life we use text to express our selves in emails and facebook posts and texting and tweets on twitter and so on. In those cases we use Capital letters to SHOUT our message.…
Read MoreMissing Or Poor Use of Your Website Title
I’m back with another episode of the Frank Deardurff Show. In this episode I share another one of my favorite quotes, Share a tip on how to simplify life by organizing your digital files and the business tip with the topic of this post. [powerpress] Here are the “show notes”: 50 Biggest Website Mistakes…
Read MoreNot Accounting For Browser Differences
I’m back with another edition of my podcast show. In this episode we talk about why you want to check your website in various web browsers, how to handle too much email and I answer a listeners question. And as I had hoped from last week the podcast show is now listed in iTunes which…
Read MoreLearn To Grow
I read a lot of quotes as you may or may not know about me already. I find them motivational and thought provoking and of course sometimes humorous. A quote that I read this morning stood out and it is by Ronald E. Osborne. He said, “Unless you do something beyond what you’ve already mastered,…
Read MoreWebsite Content Out of Site Out of Mind
Welcome to the Frank Deardurff Show – It’s official – I’ve published my first podcast episode! As of this post I’m waiting for iTunes approval but I’m guessing it should appear there soon. You can listen below or on your favorite mobile device once we are approved. The plans are to publish this show every…
Read MoreHandling Inbox Bloat
If you are like many professionals you run into this problem where your inbox grows and grows faster than you can keep up with so you just scan for things you recognize and tell your self you will go back and check the rest later. I know I’m guilty of this recently I looked over…
Read MoreWhat’s in a Word?
I’m not sure if this is a rant or just sharing a frustration I see from time to time. I do have a fascination with words, like definitions, origins, and how funny the English language can be. Growing up in a single parent home with my brothers and sisters you learned to appreciation what you…
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