Peter Carruthers
Most of us entrepreneurs didn’t choose to be here! It kinda happened en route to a real job and career.
And that's pretty much what happened to me and led to me writing about small business issues.
Isn’t this a wonderful time to be alive?
Finding Clients in the UK...
- By Peter Carruthers
- Published 11/3/2008
In December last year I surveyed 900 web sites belonging to Business Warriors - to their great distress. Most of the sites turned out to be a lot less than functional - at least from a marketing perspective.
These sites belonged to small business owners, most of whom were not technically minded. A few happily described themselves as Luddites!
Earlier this year I started some research to see whether the problems of these sites owned by small businesses were limited to smaller entrepreneurs, or whether this was more widespread.
Turns out that the figures for more than 300,000 websites in the UK and South Africa were a lot worse. Our survey shows that almost 4 out of every 5 websites is missing a few critical components that Google needs to be able send streams of visitors.
(If you want a copy of the full report you can get it by subscribing to the Finding Clients list at http://www.findingclients.co.uk Your email address will never be shared. And I won't bury you in commercial rubbish, just one original idea to help you find clients each week.)
If your site has not lived up to your original expectations, please download the report. (It's in English, words of one syllable.) You'll probably find out why the site is like 80% of the Internet - commercially invisible. And you'll find out what to do about it.
These sites belonged to small business owners, most of whom were not technically minded. A few happily described themselves as Luddites!
Earlier this year I started some research to see whether the problems of these sites owned by small businesses were limited to smaller entrepreneurs, or whether this was more widespread.
Turns out that the figures for more than 300,000 websites in the UK and South Africa were a lot worse. Our survey shows that almost 4 out of every 5 websites is missing a few critical components that Google needs to be able send streams of visitors.
(If you want a copy of the full report you can get it by subscribing to the Finding Clients list at http://www.findingclients.co.uk Your email address will never be shared. And I won't bury you in commercial rubbish, just one original idea to help you find clients each week.)
If your site has not lived up to your original expectations, please download the report. (It's in English, words of one syllable.) You'll probably find out why the site is like 80% of the Internet - commercially invisible. And you'll find out what to do about it.