Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Read why Bookkeepers Need A Bookkeeping Website for your bookeeping business
When individuals are surfing the internet, they are looking for specific information. No longer do you need to go to the library and spend hours trying to find the correct book to give you the information your are looking for.
No longer do you have to go to the bookcase or cupboard or shelf to look for yellow pages, all the details are now online. So when a business owner or manager goes looking for a Bookkeeper or a Bookkeeping Service, where do you think is the first place they will look?
More and more people are going shopping online, they are researching products and businesses on the internet. If you’re a bookkeeper and operate a bookkeeping service without a web site then you are missing out on business.
Myth: A Website Is Expensive
You probably think that it costs a whole packet of hard earned cash to get yourself a website. After all you’ve seen other people make pathetic attempts to build their website, and you are thinking that if that’s what their website is like, why would you want to do business with them?
Major corporations can spend huge amounts of money on fancy websites with all the bells and whistles - but does it really help them increase business?
Then there’s small business owners that get their nephew or grandchild to build a website. Yes, they can also look very good, to the human eye, but are totally useless to search engines.
Build a Bookkeeper Web Site For Free
The Bookkeepers and Bookkeeping Services Directory offers you a free business listing, and you can use a simple WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) text editing page to create your own web page.
See an example web page here
You can direct people to your bookkeeping webpage. You can edit the page and add photos any time that you like. To make it easy for you, there’s a users guide that you can download.
If you are having trouble in developing your bookkeeper web site, and you need help in creating your webspace simply contact us, and we’ll help you (for a small fee)
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
We searched the internet looking to find out how to transfer all the emails that were in a webmail account.
A client asked that we transfer their website from one hosting company to another, and they rely heavily on using webmail to access their emails when they are away from their office
They’ve been using “Horde” and there’s no reason why the same system should not work for “Squirelmail”. There’s lots of forums that say you cannot import your emails from a webmail account.
This is how we transfer webmail to Outlook Express
1. Go to Outlook express
2. Set Up a new identity
3. Follow prompts
3. Select IMAP as incoming mail server ( not POP )
4. Continue prompts
How hard is that? !!!!!!
All your emails will be sucked in from your webmail account. This includes your sent items and draft items. You’ll need to set it up for each different webmail account.
Our client is now happy that they have not lost the email database caused by moving their website from one hosting company to another. They could import their webmail emails, transferring all their emails from “Horde” to their Outlook Express Account on their Windows PC.
What about Mac? Maybe somebody else has the answer and give us some feedback
hope that helps!
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Unless your website is really only an online company brochure then don’t you want people to find your website?
So if you’ve had a website for a while, and it’s not bringing in much traffic - go back and have a read through the text. When writing text for your website, it’s important that you make mention of your location whenever you can without it sounding silly
For instance we have clients who are bookkeepers located in Australia’s Playground. Queensland’s Gold Coast, the tourist capital of Australia is also home to a local Gold Coast bookkeeping business. They have bookkeepers servicing clients from Beenleigh and beyond in the North, down to Coolangatta and across the Queensland border into Northern New South Wales. So when people go searching for Gold Coast Bookkeeping, or mobile bookkeepers based in the Gold Coast, they are led here
Also you need to talk specifically about your business - your points of difference, and your USP. When writing try and think like a potential client - what would they be looking for on your website - and why your website rather than any other website
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