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Hunting and Farming – November
Do you know the 80/20 rule? 80% of your business comes from your top 20% of your customers? Well I didn't!For me I think it's more like 40/40. I don't have an active farming plan, so to speak, where I push side services.Most business it seems to be the other way...
How to Maximise Referrals – October
Maximise Referrals Recently the MYOB business quarter report come out. In a survey of a thousand Aussie businesses it was found that only 35% had a website!The business owners with a website report a more successful year.Only 51% of finance and insurance businesses...
HTML 5 when can we use it – September
HTML 5 when can we use it - September I have had a few people ask about the new and exciting html5. Whilst it has some great features like animations and transitions its still a long way off from working in all the browsers - W3 say 2014.Meanwhile some of the html5...
How to rank in Google Maps – August
How to rank in Google Maps - August Local business listings have their own specific ranking factors which have changed a lot over the past years. Here are some tips to help expand your map reach. 1. Don't load your title with keywords, while a lot of business get away...
Maps new scoring system and browser sizes – July
Maps new scoring system and browser sizes - July Google has introduced a new scoring system for the maps.Its all part of the new push for more social ranking factors, the new maps is called +Local.Google actually conducted a massive test including real people to...
Chrome overtakes IE – June
Chrome overtakes IE in browser wars According to StatCounter chrome is now the king. Internet explorer a close second and Firefox third. While other more western stats still see IE holding fast its only a matter of time.What's this mean for you and me, a safer move to...
Google updates and Alt tags for images – May
Google updates and Alt tags for images - May While the new analytics has some great new features some of the basic info has become frustrating to access.Gone is the old left hand menu with all metrics that the average person could ever want. Google now forces the user...
New cms videos and marketing packages – April
New cms videos and marketing packages - April We recently updated our very old CMS videos. The new videos are full screen captures with voice over that are more informative and easier to understand.Your feedback and thoughts are...
Improving your site – Newsletter March
Newsletter March Make sure its fastWhen your site was finished it would have had 0 errors and super fast but things change. Especially if you have a CMS so try to keep your images cropped and the file size down. Try not to change the font, colours or styles as this...
Google downgrades websites with lots of Ads
Google Ad update Google's updated algorithm has placed a higher importance on websites with out lots of Advertisements.The change is one of the many steps they are putting in place to make the search results better for us humans. According to Matt Cutts from Google...
Lets keep in touch
Paul here from Cultivate.I wanted to send you a quick email to wish you the best of success for this year. The main idea of this newsletter is to keep you all in touch with my availability, especially around the holidays. My plan is to publish every second month with...
