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Strategies for Small Businesses of Our Time

A Vantage Point for Small Business Strategies Online and Offline
One Step at a Time

Small businesses are good at their own business and not so good at most other things. Unlike big businesses which can hire or outsource every role and skill, small business' resources are limited. With that in view, we are building a list of resources to simplify and help in your non-core areas. You can find the information you want, which we update even as we learn. You can do-it-yourself, request for info on issues that are important to you, or ask us to help.

Web Hosting

Domain names and website hosting

When we were looking for an affordable shared hosting site, we searched many web-hosting review sites. It was a tedious process because even some popular and highly rated ones have some really bad user reviews when you search further in forums and blog.

Upgrading Drupal 7.0 to 7.4

I have been procastinating the Drupal core upgrade. Core upgrade, unlike module upgrades, are only doable manually. Having been spoilt by Wordpress which allow all to be done with the click of a button, manual upgrade seems complicated. But you got to do what you got to do. So it is done after 3 to 4 days of searching, experimenting and learning.

Essentially the steps I took was:

Drupal vs WordPress: Initial Impression

Recently, we had the pleasure of setting up another website. This time we decided to WordPress simply because our client is a small start-up. That means that they have few resources to spare. Things has to be effective, efficient and cheap. For that purpose we decided on WordPress as it will be easier for the client to setup and maintain.

The differences are significant.

Trade off 1: Learning curves vs Setup speed

10 Tips for Blogging with No Fear

1. Make lists. People like lists. A list of 3 looks anorexic unless you flesh out each point substantially. 5 is not bad. 7 is good ever since the Stephen Covey self-help hit. But 10 feels rock solid.

Writing for the Web

As a writer who started out with the traditional printed press, I was apprehensive with the links I have to build in for web articles. That might have been a pain in the past when you have to fiddle with the HTML code. But these days...these days, everything's easier! With sites like Wordpress, all you have to do is highlight a word/sentence, click on the paperclip icon and paste the web address into a pop-up window

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