Smooth Stuff
Your Virtual Personal Assistant
May 30, 2010 · Comments Off
Smooth Stuff is your one-stop drive-through solution to a web presence for your small business. 100% greed-free. Let me take just a moment to introduce myself. I’m Susanna Duffy and I live in Melbourne, Australia. I’m a workshop facilitator on Social Networking for Seniors and I’ve been creating websites for small business and individuals since 1999. I thrive on webwork, am totally motivated to the best of the web and completely dedicated to my clients. I’m a Virtual Personal Assistant and I supply your hassle-free website. Your small business needs support to stay organised... [Read the full story]
Small Business
Five Marketing Ideas on a Bootstrap
June 8, 2010 · Comments Off
Offer a free product/service for loyalty The cheapest way to reward your existing customers for their loyalty is to give a free product away. Depending on the price of your product or service, offer one free when a customer has bought five or ten. What a great way to say thank you! You could print off a discount card on your computer if you prefer, just remember to ensure your vouchers/tokens aren’t easily forged. If your customer base is small enough you can keep track of purchases by customer name and mark off their purchases. Sell gift vouchers Let people purchase a gift voucher for a friend.... [Read the full story]
Squidoo
Gotta Love that SquidLit!
June 15, 2010 · Comments Off
Have you given SquidLit a try? It’s a little ripper! SquidLit is a portal specifically for lenses about books and it practically creates itself. But like other Squidoo quickbuilders (wizards), there’s a right way to use it and a (very) wrong way. Why not open one now and have a look? Here’s the link to SquidLit (That opens in another window so you can still read this page) This what the page looks like when you open it. Pretty straightforward, eh? My grandson would say ‘Cool!‘ After you’ve typed in your book title and author, you will be taken to a page which... [Read the full story]
WordPress
Smooth WordPress
May 30, 2010 · Comments Off
I spent a lot of years designing sites in HTML and Flash. Then I began to use Content Management Systems (CMS) and made sites with over a dozen different styles of CMS. Now I’m a WordPress junkie. I love Wordpress. I’m certainly not alone, tens of millions of people love it too. Even better, Google loves WordPress. With WordPress you don’t need to know anything at all about coding or techie stuff, if you can use MS Word or Open Office, you can use WordPress. WordPress is blogging software but also a delightfully easy small business CMS. Updates are a breeze with WordPress, leaving... [Read the full story]
Video
New Features in WP 2.9
May 30, 2010 · Comments Off
A demonstration of three new features in WordPress 2.9 — Trash Bin, Image Editing, and Post Thumbnails. Read More →
Web Feng Shui
Facebook, why are you phoning me?
June 29, 2010 · Comments Off
Do you need your phone number/s displayed to the world at large? If you run a business that relies on people phoning in then, yes, you certainly do. Maybe your personal friends and family don’t feel the same about their phone numbers. We don’t know. We haven’t asked them. Just like Facebook hasn’t asked us if we want our phonebooks to be public. How to disable your Facebook Phonebook Go to your Account – Choose Edit Friends On the left, see the Phonebook When you click on Phonebook , you get this message To learn more about Phonebook or to delete any contacts imported... [Read the full story]
FAQ
What I do for you
I organise your domain name, set up your hosting and install a platform for a self-managed website for which you need no knowledge of web coding. I provide you with the training – approx 1 hour is all the average newcomer to the web needs – either face to face or via video / web conferencing. I’m...
[Continue reading: What I do for you]Smooth Stuff Client Base
Due to the intensive work involved as your Smooth Stuff Virtual Personal Assistant, I keep my client base small. When you work with me, your business goal becomes mine, and your website receives the individual thought and attention it deserves. Not all applications are successful. My right to refuse I reserve the right...
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Seniors
I am a workshop facilitator on Social Networking and Online Communities for Seniors....
The over 55s have discovered the joy of connecting with others online. Unlike the...
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Starting Out
5 Steps to Start your Small Business
You’re all set to start a small business. You have the drive, the desire, and the...
The Australian Government has some basic outlines to starting a business with questions...
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