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Gordon Hamilton's professional background is within the UK Banking Sector. Between the years of 1988 and 2007, he worked for what was initially Halifax Building Society (Savings and Loan,) became Halifax plc and ultimately Halifax Bank of Scotland plc. He

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Business > Web Marketing Shameless self-promotion: Internet marketing: 1 of 12
There is a basic fact in Internet marketing that if you don't promote yourself, why should you expect anyone else to do so? Shameless self-promotion is not a bad thing; it is rather absolutely essential if we and our business are to succeed online. We have to let our customers, those who may be interested in our products or s... More..
Business > Starting an Online Business An introduction to blogs: 2 of 16
Blogs in the modern day are finally beginning to lose what was once their somewhat unenviable reputation. It is probably down to their extremely unprofessional sounding name (short for "web logarithms") more than anything else that they were not perceived in a better fashion by such as businesses and individual professionals.... More..
Business > Web Marketing The basic principles of search engine optimization (SEO): 3 of 23
Search engine optimisation, commonly abbreviated to SEO, is in simple terms the process of attempting to make a website or blog as attractive as possible to the search engines. The idea is to first of all attract the spiders of said search engines which crawl the Web indexing all its many pages and to subsequently impress the... More..
Business > Starting an Online Business Online Business: The importance of finding your niche: 1 of 7
Whenever we are contemplating starting any type of business, it is imperative that we develop for ourselves a very realistic and detailed business plan. We have to consider what services we are going to provide or what products we are going to sell and we have to consider who our customers are likely to be and how we are goin... More..
Business > Web Marketing Using a blog or MySpace to promote your business: 4 of 27
It is quite incredible how many business owners are finally waking up to the sensational powers of such as MySpace and simple blogs when it comes to internet promotion and marketing. These tools, only until very recently seen as the leisure domains of teenaged Web users, are incredibly powerful devices for reaching a wide var... More..
Business > Web Advertising Where can you advertise your website for free: 1 of 6
There are a great many people who may think that free advertising on the Web is a myth or a complex domain of the technically superior. The reality is that nothing could be further from the truth and that we can not only advertise our website for free online but on occasion actually make money from the process of doing so!The... More..
Business > Online Advertising & Sales How to get paid for advertising on your website: 1 of 5
Whenever we build a website, it is almost always the case that we wish to attract as much traffic to it as possible and make as much money from said traffic as we possibly can. There are a great many ways in which we can do this, of course. We can include a lot of relevant outbound links and attempt to attract as many inbound... More..
Business > Online Advertising & Sales Effective ways to earn online with your business: 1 of 5
The Internet in modern times affords a great many new and wonderful opportunities for individuals and businesses alike. In these times of economic chaos, one such opportunity for businesses is the ability to advertise their products and services online not only for free but to actually make money in the process of doing so. T... More..
Business > Web Advertising How to advertise your blog: 1 of 5
When we have gone to all the bother of setting up a blog, and essentially undertaken the commitment to post to it on a regular basis in order to make it successful, it is essential that we then proceed to advertise the existence of our blog to others around the Web. Yes, the search engines' spiders may find it and index it wi... More..
Business > Sales Top ways to become an effective salesperson: 1 of 5
The top ways to become an effective salesperson are techniques which are employed by many to very often generate a great deal of money for themselves and/or their company. Although many sales techniques will be specific to a particular range of products or services, there are equally those ways which encompass the sales indus... More..