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On Being a New Entrepreneur – A Conversation with Phil Ramsey of QEDMethods

Phil newly minted entrepreneur with a deep background in project management and building content management systems for the legal, education and publishing industries. Phil launched QEDMethods to consult to the world and eventually take it over. He is navigating the world of consulting and building the company slowly and on the verge of a big [...]

Why We Ensure Transfers of Domain Names from Network Solutions are Authorized

Periodically we respond to people on Twitter and on blogs where people express their feelings on why it sometimes takes time to transfer a domain away from Network Solutions. At Network Solutions the security of your domain name registrations and online account is one of our primary concerns. We have put a number of security [...]

Marketer’s Corner – Web Site Promotion Strategies for a Small Business Web Site

You are ready to start your web business and make millions of dollars. Awesome. Now what do you?
It may seem like all you need to do is put up your web site and watch the customers come rushing to your door. As with any business, you must let people know that you are open for [...]

Marketer’s Corner – Search Engine Marketing 101

Everyone these days uses search engines as their starting point when they want to find anything on the web. Google is the market leader and has built their business on essentially capturing all pages on the web and using their proprietary algorithm to make a search term or phrase relevant. In fact, according to Marketing [...]

Building Your Business Online Series Part 2 Choosing a Hosting Package

In the first part of this series, we talked about choosing a domain name. We chose the address for your website. The next step is to choose the hosting package. Your web site is hosted physically on a server. The web hosting provider maintains the server & makes sure to provide the technology so that [...]

Building Small Business Web Sites – A Chat with Gregory Pittman, Web Designer and Editor of IsaiahSix.org

Gregory Pittman is a man of many talents. He graduated from University of South Carolina with a degree in Music Education. He then went in the Ministry and is currently the Associate Pastor of Worship at the First Baptist Church of Edgefield, South Carolina. He also is a great web/WordPress designer and has been the [...]

Building Your Business Online Series Part 1 Choosing a Domain Name

This is the first in the series for Building Your Business Online.
My analogy references building a house so keeping with that where do you want to put it? Do you want it to be on a main thoroughfare seen by everyone? You definitely want to make it as easy as possible for everyone to find [...]

Rohit Rebooted – Rohit Bhargava makes an encore appearance at Network Solutions Offices

- Author of the book “Personality not Included” interviewed by Network Solutions and Our Friends from Small Businesses Across the DC Area.
Rohit Bhargava is rising star in the PR and Social Media world. Rohit is a founding member of the pioneering 360 Digital Influence Group at Ogilvy – a leading group in helping clients around [...]

Web 2.0 and Customer Service for Small Business – Meeting Saul Colt of Freshbooks

How web 2.0 tools are like a time machine – Presentation by Saul Colt of Freshbooks

His title is “Head of Magic” and he calls himself “the Doug Henning of Marketing”. We just call him Saul.

The Power of 1000 fans for Small Business Success

Kevin Kelly, who writes “The Technium” came up with the concept of 1,000 true fans. It relates to the concept of the “Long Tail” where the head and the tail meet as you can see in the image below:

(Credit: Kevin Kelly, The Technium)
Kevin Kelly defines it nicely:
“A True Fan is defined as someone who will [...]