Web Biz Strategy

Here’s a question that came in to LinkedIn about the climate for E-Marketers. The bottom line is that it’s tough for everybody and every industry right now, there’s just that much more competition from the newly-unemployed (ahem, “self-employed”), and that much less money to go around. Even so, there are opportunities, which I speak to [...]

Nowadays it’s common to see “Follow Me On Twitter,” or “View My Profile on LinkedIn” buttons on people’s sites. On this site I’ve got those two buttons on the top right. Why? Commercial web sites have on-site ads for their own goods and services, non-profit organizations have calls to donate or volunteer, so why not [...]

Here’s another LinkedIn question and my response, this time on best practices for client / vendor agreements for web services.  Whether you’re a web developer or a business owner who is using (or about to use) a web vendor, read on, my suggestions below help protect both the client and the web developer. This isn’t [...]

In my last post I discussed the LinkedIn.com “Questions & Answers” application, which I recommend that everyone use both for research and to build professional credibility. I routinely respond to questions from LinkedIn members, and I’ll include relevant ones here on the Web Biz Strategy blog. Today’s question is about the use of site maps for your [...]

We live in the networking age. That’s a good thing, especially in these difficult financial times, because it gives us all more opportunities and flexibility in business than we would have if networking through the web wasn’t so incredibly easy. Right now you may already have a half-dozen social web site accounts and are networking [...]

Hello and welcome to Web Biz Strategy.  My goal with this blog is to help visitors build their web business strategy by sharing my learnings and thoughts on successful web business, having spent ten years in the web biz and going strong. At the same time, I benefit by writing out, organizing and compiling my [...]