Hi I'm Russell - e-vangelist with e-c Internet Solutions
It's a big claim - being an "e-vangelist"
Please note the "e" as in email, ecommerce or just plain "e" as in "everything" if what you do now doesn't have an online component you risk being the next dinosaur.
Guest Rant - Ajay Prasad Your online business is not a wild crazy idea, but a source of income. Trust the right people to design your website. Your 17 year old nephew may be able to create our website or you can get a free one from several services...they might even be kind of pretty. In my research and experience, less than 2% of businesses that have websites have planted the seeds to online success. Many of them are your competitors. more...
The range and availability of freelance talent is greater than it has ever been before. World class designers, artists, illustrators, photographers, strategists, potters, copywriters, programmers--they're all one click away. more...
Clarification # 3 What is Cloud Computing Cloud computing refers to the latest Web 2 practice of considering all your data - and the tools that create or manipulate that data - lives "out there" on the web. more...
Clarification # 1 - What is "Social Media"...? Social Media is many things to many people - this is a first of a few posts over the next little while that I'll cover some of the words & phrases that many of my customers start to get that blank look on their faces when I use them... more...
If St Patrick was a blogger... It's not hard to imagine Saint Patrick – Skype alias STPAT (he got in early) – blogging – after all he was a center of influence that was well recognised over the ages in his elevation to saint hood. more...
How it came about is many of our customers come to us and say " I think my business needs a web site" or "My business coach has suggested I get a web site" - but they are really saying is:
"I want help in putting the word 'website' in my marketing plan"
or some of them:
"I want to put the word 'website' in my business plan"
So we help them to do this by being their "over the horizon" viewer of what the web can do today for them - and for you - and where it may go in the future - and help you prepare for that...
We sit down and suggest that we pretend that we won lotto last week and so this thinking removes (at least temporarily) budget from the discussion.
Then we talk abouthow the web works in general- then get tohow the web works in a typical sales and marketing sense- and then narrow down whatyoucould be doing on the web.
Now here's a treat - someone much better able than me to answer the question - just what the heck is Web 2.0:-
This web site covers some other aspects to having a web site, to using the web as a business tool - and why I'm hot (or not) on various technologies - I hope you enjoy reading the content and that you join us on our subscriptions list - and take an active role in the forums.
Splash pages – are they worth it…? February 2005 Ideally you want to portray the best "first impression” to a new web visitor that you can – but is a splash page the best way to go about it…? Splash or Entranceway pages were quite the rage some time ago around 1998 / 1999. Designers typically used them to introduce the branding of the web site owner and also to give a nice feel to the site by introducing the colours & look of the web site. More on Splash pages
