Ever wondered how to install WordPress, quickly, easily and, (most importantly of all) securely? Well, now you don’t have to worry any longer. I’ve managed to persuade a very good friend of mine to let me give you her very own setup guide. This is the exact setup she uses to install WordPress for both [...]

When it comes to marketing your business a great logo is one of the best ways to establish your brand quickly and easily. And now we’ve added affordable logo designs to the range of services we offer, there’s never been a better time for you to grab an exclusive logo design for your business. If [...]

Boutique is a beautiful website for showcasing your products. Great also for showing off any special offers right there on your homepage so customers don’t have to go searching for them. Very simple to setup and maintain, Boutique is the perfect theme if your business involves selling physical products.    

Search engine optimisation plays a huge part in marketing your business online, but very few people know what it is and even fewer know how to do it properly. Rather than bore you all with a long winded post, I thought I’d share this rather cool (and highly informative) infographic from Aaron Wall. Aaron knows [...]

When it comes to setting up a business there’s a few obstacles you have to overcome, but the biggest stumbling block most people face is the lack of a viable business idea. Surprisingly, it isn’t that they can’t fund the business startup costs, or that they don’t have the necessary skills and aptitude to run [...]

Do the visitors to your website consider it to be a credible source of information? If not, then you need to rethink your whole approach to doing business on the Internet. Image counts. More so on the Internet than anywhere else. And especially when it comes to consumers trusting you enough to part with their [...]

I have some great news for those of you who already have an online business or are looking to start one. We are going to  be opening a membership site aimed solely at the online business community. It’s no secret that everyone now is more likely to find a product or service online than in [...]

Just because you’ve decided to market your business online doesn’t necessarily mean you intend for it to turn into a global business empire. For many small businesses it simply wouldn’t be possible anyway. Somehow I can’t imagine my gardener travelling over to the States to cut some fellow’s lawn. Yet I’m seeing more and more [...]

You might think that coming up with ideas for an online business would be pretty simple. And in many respects it is. But unfortunately, it’s not enough to just come up with the ideas. You have to come up with business ideas that are: Workable - an idea is no good if you can’t actually [...]

When it comes to running an online business, one of the most useful tools you can have in your arsenal is a capture page. A simple addition to any website, a capture page allows you to sign up potential customers that may not be ready to order from you right now, but may well want [...]

QR codes are becoming more and more popular and with good reason. With the rise of mobile technology, having a QR code is a huge asset to your business. I found the following article on SiteProNews and thought it worth sharing. QR Codes Are A Smart Marketing Choice Marketing used to be much simpler in [...]

E-mail marketing is a great way to not only keep in touch with your current customers, but also to pick up potential new ones. One of the first things you should do when you set up your online business is to set up a way you can keep in touch with these people. There are [...]

If you’ve never thought of putting yourself or your business on the Internet, then you can be forgiven for thinking that actually getting a website online might be hard. It’s not. In fact, if you compare it to most of the things you do in your daily life, then building a website, putting it online, [...]

Amazon have launched their own Pay Per Click Advertising system. You can now advertise in front of the millions of Amazon customers. And considering they’re already in buying mode, there’s a much higher chance of converting your clicking visitors into paying customers. Ask any Amazon associate and they’ll tell you that, while the commission rates [...]

Still keen to break into the social arena in a big way, Google are now introducing their own version of ‘tweeting’ and ‘stumbling’ or ‘liking’ or ‘digging’. Whether you share cool stuff via one or all of the social media sites, Google are determined to break into your little circle one way or another. So [...]

Giving people more opportunities to buy your products or services might seem so basic a business principle as to not be worth writing a whole post about. However, it’s a sad fact that many online businesses miss out on a lot of sales simply because they fail to get enough ‘buy buttons’ out there in [...]

Online business owners need to take notice of Google updates in the same way offline business owners need to take notice of updates to laws and business regulations. Why? Because it affects the way you do business. Try running your offline business without due regard to changes in the law and you’ll find yourself shut [...]

With the ever faster increases in technology, keeping your business safe online is getting harder every day. Having just been the subject of a hacking attack, I thought it worth mentioning as all too often we wait until it’s too late before we do something. It’s important to note that it’s not just about keeping [...]

Free websites are never free. Never. Period. End of story. Yet why do so many small business owners continue to think they can get a free website built for them. Surely every business owner has a budget set aside  for marketing/advertising? If not, how are you going to attract new customers and / or keep [...]

If you’re just planning on getting your business online this year (2011), then you might want to pay attention to the following video by Matt Cutts. The Internet offers a huge play area for small business owners looking to reach out to more people, but unfortunately, the game changes much more quickly than it does [...]

Running a successful online business requires you to acquire certain skills that are not necessary if you want to run a successful business offline. And, of course, vice versa. Lots of the skills and knowledge needed  are required whichever way you want to run your business. For instance, it doesn’t matter whether your store is [...]

We’ve talked before about how important it is to promote your business. Forget the idea that just because you put up a great website, people are going to automatically flock to it and buy your products. It doesn’t happen that way. There are lots of ways you can promote your online business, but for now, [...]

It seems that whether your business is running online or offline, there are still the inevitable reams of red tape that threaten to strangle the life out of your business before it even gets started. No distinction is made between large or small either. Every business owner has to fight their way through the corporate [...]

I’m a member of several online business forums and it seems every day, there are more people looking for free, online business opportunities. Of course, in theory, a free, online business sounds great. After all, why pay for something if you can get it for free? And if you can set up a free business [...]

The trouble with many small business owners (and this is not meant as an insult) is they simply do not understand the technicalities of doing business online. Unfortunately, this leaves them wide open to being scammed out of a lot of money by unscrupulous Internet Marketing providers. How do they do it? Website Design Ripoff [...]

With the recent upshift in everyone getting on the social media bandwagon, you might want to slow down a little and check your social marketing strategy. Yes, it’s true that a good social media campaign is great for your business, but you need to make sure the sites and people you follow/like are also good [...]

It’s pretty much a given that your website is your best resource when you’re running an online business. So you need to make sure you take all the steps necessary to keep it clean, running, and doing it’s job effectively. It’s job, by the way, is advertising your business 24/7. Unfortunately, if you use a [...]

If you want to run a successful online business then it’s crucial you take advantage of the most effective online marketing strategies available. However, they need to be strategies that fit in with your business and will help your prospective customers find you as easily as possible. Online marketing is similar to offline marketing in [...]

One of the biggest problems I see online business owners struggling with is understanding just what resources they need. The truth is, when it comes to setting up your business online, you need very little other than a website, hosting, a computer and an Internet connection. That’s the attraction of running an online business. You [...]

Very interesting post over on Mashable regarding the story of Proctor & Gamble shifting it’s marketing focus online. Of course, they’ll still be using daytime TV. The key to any effective marketing is to catch your prospective customers wherever they happen to be! But with an advertising budget in the millions, when big companies are [...]

It’s not enough to just set up an online business. No matter how great it is, if you don’t get the word out about it, nobody will ever know. I’ve talked about getting traffic to your website previously, but thought it might be interesting to check out Matt Cutts video below. You might think the [...]

The keys to a successful business come in all shapes and sizes, but if you check the mindset of successful people you will soon discover they all share a few key principles. It may seem a little strange to talk about a business mindset, but in truth, not everyone is cut out to be a [...]

When it comes to the visual display of your website, remember, it is the face of your business and so it’s crucial that you portray the best possible image to potential customers. While the content, product, or service you provide, will ultimately be the deciding factor in whether your online business succeeds, how you present [...]

Although ‘Minimal’ is a page based wordpress website, it can still be used in blog style mode. As usual it offers all of the beautiful design features you can expect from any of Nick’s themes. You can see a working version of this theme at my personal blog site over at http://www.sancoils.com. Alternatively, you can [...]

No matter how many resources you think you may or may not need for your online business, never, ever, underestimate the difference a good web hosting provider can make. When things go bad, (and they will!), the last thing you want is to find yourself with a host who is hard to reach, is unable [...]

When you want to simply put your best foot forward, you cannot go past this beautiful, minimal, business card theme. No distractions for your visitor, this theme provides them with all they need to know about you, your business, your service / product. Although designed to show limited content, it still comes in 5 colours [...]

eNews is a terrific WordPress theme. I actually use this theme on a couple of my niche sites and it works very well. : If you’re wanting to start a Google News site, this is the theme for you. Show off your featured news posts and present all the news on the homepage while still [...]

The ‘Bold’ theme does exactly what it says. Very bold and attention grabbing theme that your visitors will love. Still simple to customise. And if you take us up on the offer of a video showing how to customise your new premium theme, you’ll be able to make as many changes as you want to [...]

The Simple Press theme is one of our favourites here at Online Business Success. Which probably explains why we’ve used it on our own site. As with most of the themes from Nick, it’s very easy to customise. Offers a very clean, professional look with a number of different colour options. You can check out [...]

Many people struggle with growing their business online because they think they have to do everything themselves. While you can save yourself a lot of money by doing the grunt work, when it comes to actually promoting your business it makes perfect business sense to leverage the power of other people by having an affiliate [...]

Hosting for your website needs to be right. There is no other way around it. I have seen and heard of too many horror stories over the years of people who have had their business destroyed simply because they went with the wrong hosting company. If you are just starting out it’s easy to be [...]

Let’s face it, WordPress makes designing, building, creating beautiful websites soooooo easy. I know many people are put off using WordPress to create their website because they think it’s very technical and you have to be some kind of ‘geek’ to use it. I know because I used to be one of those people! However, [...]

An online business is no different to any other business in that you will still need to set yourself a budget and stick to it, if you want your business to be successful, i.e. turn a profit. Not planning and sticking to a budget leaves you at serious risk of spending more than you earn! [...]

The one crucial aspect of setting up an online business you cannot afford to overlook is traffic. Human traffic that is, not the automobile variety. It doesn’t matter how dazzling your website is, nor how stupendous your product or service is. You may very well have the most awesome customer service. But if you can’t [...]

I think a lot of folks get so excited at the thought of setting up a business online, they overlook the importance of setting up a workable business plan first. Or maybe it’s not down to forgetting about it. Maybe it’s more due to the fact there is so much misinformation telling folks they can [...]

There are some costs associated with building an online business that you simply cannot escape. These include such things as hosting and domain registration. But there are plenty of ways to cut costs in other areas and this can be especially useful if you’re a new business owner who has more time on your hands [...]

You might think a great website design is just about the visuals. You’d be wrong. Great websites rely on much more than just their looks. Of course, the visual appeal of your design is what’s going to grab your visitor first, but if the outer cover doesn’t contain equally compelling content, they won’t hang around. [...]

Welcome to the new site. Having watched so many people struggle with the ups and downs of building their dream online business I have opened up SansSecret to offer a range of must have online, business services, at affordable prices.