It is crucial to understand exactly what you want your website to do for potential visitors, and what information needs to be conveyed.
Understanding how you want your website to serve your demographic will help you choose the right web hosting company.
Consider the following aspects of running a website to ascertain the best possible route to go down when choosing a web host.
Cost effectiveness
Web hosting can come in at a varied price range, because so many companies add services and customisation options that your website might not need.
Before choosing which company to go with, you should take into consideration all of the packages they offer, and compare them to the needs of your business.
High amounts of storage is always helpful, and plenty of web hosting companies can provide it, but if your business doesn’t need it then you’re wasting money.
Good web hosting provides a plethora of package choices to suit your business’s needs, even if they’re very small. Analyse what is included in each package before committing – highest price doesn’t always mean highest quality.
Loss of revenue
Unlike shop-fronts, websites are open to the public 24/7. A website acts as a means of promoting your business and selling products through ecommerce, so
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How hotels and bed and breakfasts can grow their visibility online
by Ben Lobel • • 0 Comments
As exciting as operating your own hotel or bed and breakfast establishment can be, the success of such a business depends hugely on making it as visible as possible to the broadest span of people possible, across what may be not only the UK but also the world.
With 80% of people now booking their holiday via the Internet and nine in 10 people researching their holiday online prior to travelling, your hotel or bed and breakfast’s online presence could be one of the most powerful marketing weapons it has.
But how exactly can you boost your establishment’s visibility on the web?
Having a secure and mobile-optimised website
Even if your hotel enjoys a strong presence on TripAdvisor, for the maximum control over the messages that are perpetuated about your business online, as well as to provide your prospective guests with the most up-to-date information and give them the easiest means of booking with you, it really does pay to have your own website.
Your hotel or bed and breakfast’s official website can be handy for helping prospective guests to locate your establishment, providing contact details for the management team and everything in-between.
However, to ensure that your website makes the biggest impact, you should
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Total Life Changes Classified As Triple A Opportunity
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
Total Life Changes is classified as Triple A (AAA+) opportunity based on key figures such as revenue, momentum, Alexa ratings, poll results, input from direct selling professionals, top earners and Head Office visits.
Business For Home recommends Total Life Changes (TLC). There is high certainty that the net benefit is substantial for a (new) representative.
The company offers a line of health and beauty products and has offices in eight different countries. Founder and CEO Jack Fallon created TLC over 16 years ago with a single product: NutraBurst.
TLC sales reached record highs in March and April for the year, followed by May 2016, which was the best May on record for TLC.
For the first 6 months of 2016 TLC is up 80% in sales from last years 6 month period. The company
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Consumers feel misunderstood by brands
by Ben Lobel • • 0 Comments
A study led by Attest reveals that perfume brands, female clothing and gaming top the list of the biggest offending sectors to wrongly estimate their consumers’ spending habits and desires.
The 2,000-strong survey of UK-based adults aged 18-75 aimed to discover more about consumer attitudes and how Britons feel they are represented by corporate brands.
Respondents were initially asked if they felt they were misunderstood by brands in general, with 35 per cent stating they feel this way. Within this group of misunderstood respondents, the majority at 82 per cent feel as if they are not well represented and are often ignored by big labels.
Following on from this, to find out more about which sectors were seen as the biggest offenders, respondents were provided with a list and were asked to actively rank where and how they feel the most misunderstood as consumers.
The sectors that get it wrong
Perfume companies are ranked by 26 per cent of respondents as the sector most likely to misjudge its customer base, followed by women’s clothing brands (23 per cent), game companies (19 per cent), insurance companies (17 per cent) and make-up brands (10 per cent).
All respondents were then asked by researchers if they had ever previously engaged with brands to give feedback, with only 41 per
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Businesses turn to ex-hackers to improve cyber security
by Ben Lobel • • 0 Comments
A fifth (20 per cent) of UK businesses have already invited hackers to assess their cyber security and systems and a further 37 per cent are open to the idea.
The report from Radware finds that three in five respondents experienced a cyber attack in the last 12 months.
Concerns over the growing threat lead four in five respondents to state that security is now a CEO-level concern while 33 per cent state that a change in C-level awareness is critical in order to thwart the latest attacks.
Among the leading concerns for executives is the Internet of Things (IoT), with connected devices identified by 29 per cent as ‘extremely likely’ to be a target for cyber criminals over the next three to five years.
Although businesses understand the threat, many are unsure how or where to direct their resources to defend against it, leading to the consideration of hiring an ex-hacker.
Ransomware is high on the agenda too, with around one in seven respondents experiencing a ransom attack over the last year. In fact, at least three companies said they were under attack at the time of the survey.
Although UK executives express an unwillingness to pay a ransom, with 9 per cent saying they would pay, compared to 23 per cent in the US, seven of
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Beating absenteeism during the European Championships
by Ben Lobel • • 0 Comments
Recent research by Kronos reveals that more than a third of employees (35 per cent) expect the European Championships to cause more absenteeism than Wimbledon (18 per cent) and the Rio Olympics (11 per cent) combined.
One of the easiest options for employers, although it might not be preferable to all, would quite simply be to allow employees the opportunity to watch the important games, particularly those involving the home nations, while they are at work.
Jacob Demeza-Wilkinson, consultant at ELAS says, ‘The advantages of this are that there would only be a two-hour break from work, rather than employees missing full days. Of course the disadvantages with this are that there would be an additional two-hour break in the day on top of normal breaks/lunches etc so productivity would still be somewhat affected.’
It is also important to note here that employers should ensure that they have a TV licence if they intend to show the football, as one is required to show any live TV.
Offering rewards to staff
Demeza-Wilkinson says an alternative would be to offer rewards/bonuses throughout the period of the tournament for good attendance or good performance.
‘This will provide staff members with an incentive to attend work during times where
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USANA Classified As Triple A Opportunity
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
USANA is classified as Triple A (AAA+) opportunity based on key figures such as revenue, momentum, Alexa ratings, poll results, input from direct selling professionals, top earners and Head Office visits.
Business For Home recommends USANA. There is high certainty that the net benefit is substantial for a (new) representative.
USANA Health Sciences, Inc., was founded in 1992. The company in its develops and manufactures high-quality nutritional, personal care, and weight-management products FDA-registered facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
The products are sold directly to Associates and Preferred Customers throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Mexico, Malaysia, the Philippines, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Thailand, France and Belgium.
Additionally, USANA’s wholly-owned subsidiary, BabyCare, Ltd., operates a direct selling business in China.
Over the last few years, USANA
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LifeVantage Classified As Triple A Opportunity
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LifeVantage is classified as Triple A (AAA+) opportunity based on key figures such as revenue, momentum, Alexa ratings, poll results, input from direct selling professionals, top earners and Head Office visits.
Business For Home recommends LifeVantage. There is high certainty that the net benefit is substantial for a (new) representative.
LifeVantage Corporation, was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Sandy, Utah.
The company is a science based public network marketing company (Nasdaq:LFVN) dedicated to visionary science that looks to transform health, wellness and anti-aging internally and externally at the cellular level.
The company is the maker of Protandim, the Nrf2 Synergizer patented dietary supplement, the TrueScience™ Anti-Aging Skin Care Regimen, Canine Health, the AXIO energy product line and the PhysIQ smart weight management system.
LifeVantage is deeply rooted in science. Science is at
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The transformation of the payday loan industry in the UK
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The UK’s payday loan industry continues to see a huge transformation following the introduction of FCA regulation in January 2015.
At one point, the payday loan industry was flying, with brands advertising on every radio and TV channel under the sun and sponsoring major sports teams across the UK. Yet the once £2 billion sector has seen major changes to address its reputation of ‘loan sharking’ and ‘irresponsible lending’. A huge overhaul of its regulatory framework and advertising driven by politicians and religious figures has seen the market shrink and top lender Wonga.com to record losses of £80 million in 2015.
New regulation from the Financial Conduct Authority
The FCA began regulating the payday loan industry in April 2014, taking over from The Office of Fair Trading. Following 29,000-payday loan related complaints recorded by The Citizens Advice Bureau in 2014, a tough approach was taken.
The regulator reviewed the practices of the some of the biggest lenders, which inevitably led to £220 million fine for Wonga, £15.4 million for Dollar Financial (The Money Shop, PaydayExpress and PaydayUK) and £1.7 million for Quickquid. The fines were partially paid to the regulator and some amounts were required to refund customers that should not have received loans in the first place due to their limited criteria.
To address the high rates of interest,
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Isagenix Classified As Triple A Opportunity
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Isagenix is classified as Triple A (AAA+) opportunity based on key figures such as revenue, momentum, Alexa ratings, poll results, input from direct selling professionals, top earners and Head Office visits.
Business For Home recommends Isagenix. There is high certainty that the net benefit is substantial for a (new) representative.
Established in 2002, Isagenix provides systems for weight loss, energy, performance, healthy aging, and wealth creation.
With more than 550,000 Members worldwide and more than 100 life-changing products, packs, and systems, the company is committed to producing Solutions to Transform Lives.
To date, Isagenix has reached $4 billion in cumulative sales through an independent network of Associates in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, Colombia, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
The company has recently announced their 186th