Recommended websites - growing your business

Here are some websites you may find of use for growing your business, and for general interest.

1) There’s a very good tool for checking on the customer focus of your website, called the ‘We-We Monitor’. This helps you see if you are focused on your visitors’ needs and problems rather than on you and your experience etc. Visit http://www.futurenowinc.com/wewe.htm

My website scored 71.83%, with 51 instances of customer-focused words. How does yours measure up?

2) I’ve been using the Google Alert service for a while to get notifications of Life Coaching articles in the press, and someone recently advised that it can be used to get alerts when people link to your website, so I have signed up for that service as well. Check it out at http://www.google.com/alerts

3) For articles to help you grow your business, such as ‘marketing plans de-mystified’ visit http://www.stand-out-marketing.co.uk/. There’s also a ‘speaker on stand by‘ service – very useful when your carefully planned event is facing problems because the scheduled speaker has just cancelled.

4) Visit http://businesslink.gov.uk%20/ and click on ‘grow your business’ for a range of information and resources.