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 David Carter: I’ve always been of the opinion that it is important to host your own web site or sites, ever since I first started studying how search engines behave. At the moment there are lots of free and paid web site building services, aimed predominantly at the small business and personal user sectors. They have a

 David Carter: As we approach the end of 2011 and get ready for the works Christmas party (tomorrow as it happens), I thought I’d take a quick look back at 2011 and see whether things got better or worse and define what worked. Two of the best pieces of software I have used this year have been

 David Carter: Last week, I had the pleasure and privilege of sitting with some very smart commercial property investment people from a specialist company that puts together and manages high-end commercial property investments such as industrial estates and shopping centres, usually worth several million pounds upwards. Part of their business is to…

 David Carter: 2012 will be my 10th anniversary of quitting my full time career in the IT recruitment business, when I left to follow my interest in the Internet and domaining and work from home. Since the day I took that decision an awful lot has happened in my business life and most of it can be

 David Carter: Technology has come on in leaps and bounds in recent years and one of the biggest issues I’ve had since I started my businesses online, has been tracking sales and enquiries. Back when I used to provide leads to other companies (something I no longer do – it’s more profitable to use them to feed

 David Carter: Hardly a day passes by without somebody suggesting a new business idea to me or my partner – perhaps they think we’re a soft touch or something! Most times, we bat them away because we are totally focused on our own niche and don’t really want to get distracted by other people’s dreams. A few

 David Carter: I finally succumbed to getting an iPad last month. The reason was simply that I wanted something light enough to carry around whilst on my travels, that could be used to browse the web, use Skype to phone home and to upload photographs from an SD card to my web server using FTP. Now, I

 David Carter: Have you seen the new Google Plus? If you visit Google, you won’t miss the big arrow pointing to the new tool bar. I tried it today and uploaded a bunch of photographs from our asbestos surveying tour in Kenya. They don’t show all we did, but it will give you an idea of what

 David Carter: Since declaring my departure from the domain industry to concentrate on developing our surveying practice, a lot has happened. Let me start by saying that it could all be coincidental, but the past month has seen a significant increase in the number of enquiries we have received and the number of sales we’ve closed. Turning

 David Carter: Given the amount of time I have spent online over the years and the vast collection of software and tools I have collected and used during this period, I can hardly be considered a Luddite. In fact, there is virtually no aspect of my business life that I haven’t tried to automate in some way