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“To Get Candor , you reward it, praise it. Most of all, you yourself demonstrate it in an exuberant and even exaggerated way”. — Jack Welch
Well I finally found time to get up a post on this blog. It’s not been on purpose but I haven’t had much time to work on this blog recently. And I’ll try to do better in the future.
But hey let’s talk about what I have been doing instead. Skiing in the Aspens! Yea right I wish. No really I’ve been working on some major improvements to www.SmallBusinessDelivered.com. For quite awhile now I have not been happy with how the site looked or felt. So I felt that changes were needed. In a couple of my own articles I’ve talked about continuing your business education. So I decided to follow my own advice. I started looking more at other websites and how they were laid out for viewers. And after a couple of weeks of research and redesign I finally found a layout I could be happy with. Since then I’ve been working to make the necessary changes to the site. Which because of all the changes I wanted has been a little slow going. But progress is being made. If you’ve checked out the category pages and articles recently you can really see the difference.
Ahhh, but what else have I been doing? I’ve been signing up new authors with new fresh content for everyone to dive into. Entrepreneurs need to have many different points of view and experiences to draw on and that is what I am going to try and provide.
I’ve recently signed up Dan Boudreau the writer of Business Plan or Bust! from www.Riskbuster.com. As well as Roger Ingbretsen of Inbretsen Consulting LLC. www.Inbretsen.com. And Steve Smith of OneCoach www.saddlebackvalley.onecoach.com. Each of these Authors, Entrepreneurs and Coaches brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the table. And I am happy to help them share that knowledge with you.
Ok well time to get back to the site for some further changes. I’ll make sure to post as often as possible to keep everyone up to date.
I’m pleased to announce that SmallBusinessDelivered.com is launching a new business directory this week. This directory has been in the works for a little while and it is finally ready for its initial rollout. To get it started I’ve put together ten categories for people to use to find what they need. Each category contains outbound links to useful business related websites. And each link comes with a paragraph long description of the website to make choosing the best website for your needs that much easier. And as a final touch we’ve included the Google page rank for each website to help indicate popularity.
But just in case your wondering why we’ve put together a directory I’ll explain. For starters search engines like Google and Yahoo are great but they do have flaws. Often what you are searching for will not be included in the results. Or not within the first couple of pages at least. You get stuck searching through website after website trying to find exactly what it is you need. This can be time consuming and frustrating as well. With the paragraph description instead of one line I’m hoping to make it easier to find what you need. Each website is actually visited and reviewed so that the description is relatively accurate.
I also wanted to make sure that people that use the directories have an easy time navigating the pages. We’ve started with ten categories but it will be expanding rather quickly. we’ve started each category with the 5 most relavent websites that we could find for each category. But we will also be expanding the listings in each category as well. I’m hoping that 50 links now will become 250 or more before the end of the year.
Each category is of course business related. Here our initial list of 10 categories.
1. Bartering Excanges
2. Business Brokers
3. Business Franchises
4. Business Incubators
5. Chambers of Commerce
6. Ezine Article Sites
7. Factoring Companies
8. Freelance Opportunities
9. Inventory Liquidators
10. Traffic Exchanges
So look for the directory to launch before the end of the week. And if you have a topic to suggest please let me know.
I mentioned in a recent post that I’d read a business biography on Google. One of the things that was mentioned was all the tools Google has been developing over the years. For quit awhile now I had been looking for some better tools to track website traffic than those provided by my hosting service. Before I had read the book I had taken a quick look at Google Analiytics but didn’t really go indepth with it. I signed up for an acount but essentially forgot about it for a few months. You see one of the issues with the system is that the tracking code needs to be added to the html code of each page of a website so that you can fully track your visitors activity. Well www.SmallBusinessDelivered.com consists of hundreds of pages so you can see the obvious problem. It takes time.
I’d also taaken a look at a bunch of paid services as well but found many of them lacking. So I decided to revisit Google Analytics again and try a few pages as a test. Well once I did I was soon hooked. Google has done a really good job of providing an invaluable tool for website owners to get an accurate read on the traffic that comes their way. And knowing your traffic allows you too learn what works and what doesn’t on a website. The best part of it all is that Google Analytics is free. And every smart business owner loves free tools. So if you haven’t checked out this program and you own a website it might be time for you to take a look.
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