The Build Me A Website Blog

Hi,

Something I want to share with you, iGoogle, this is Googles “portal” service, it allows you to create a customised internet home page. On this page you can display the Google search engine and tons of Google Gadgets such as RSS feeds, local weather, youtube videos and loads more.

I mainly use iGoogle to display RSS feeds, see the previous post to find out about RSS.

Once you have set up your iGoogle page please add the BMAWS Blog RSS to your page. To do this all you have to do is go to your iGoogle page click the “Add Stuff” link and on the next page in the bottom left click the “Add feed or gadget”, you can then enter the URL below:-

http://www.blog.bmaws.com/?feed=rss2

Thats it your done, now whenever we add anything new to the BMAWS Blog you will know about it straight away on your iGoogle home page.

Regards
Scott

Hi again,

What about that, two posts in one day, I am getting good.

Ok I want to tell you about this fantastic deal a friend of mine informed me about.  Mobile Broadband for your Laptop/PC for half the normal price, I’ve ordered one and the deal does work.

I got a free USB Mobile Broadband Modem with 1GB of bandwidth, which is enough for a bit of surfing and checking emails while away from the office. Its only costing me £5 a month for 18 months, should normally be £10 a month.

If you would like to take advantage of this offer you will need the promotional code “daisy” (without the quotation marks). Click the link below and when you get to the checkout remember to enter “daisy” into the promotional code box.

As far as I can see the code works with all the Mobile Broadband packages available. You will see there are a few different USB modems, they are all the same they just look different, I called Three and asked the question.

Link - www.three.co.uk

Hope you find this useful.

All the best
John

Hello,

First of all let me start of by saying sorry for taking so long to post anything new on here. I’m not going to give you any lame excuse that I’ve been to busy its just simply that I never got round to doing it. Anyway I’m back now and I’m going to try my best to keep this blog flowing with useful information.

What I’m going to do is allow you, my Build Me A Website client base to suggest some things to post on here. If any of you have anything you would like to share with others please email me and I will get it posted. If you have a special offer on over the weekend and you would like the word spreading, let me know and we will see if the BMAWS blog could bring you some extra work. Alternatively if you have found anything interesting online that is helping you with your business let me know and I will share it here.

Ok thats me done, I will post again hopefully this evening as I have news of a great mobile broadband deal.

Chat soon
John

Hello,

We are pleased to announce that we have now been reconnected to the internet with a new Eclipse 2000 Broadband connection.

We would like to thank Eclipse 2000 Broadband for all the help they have given us.

We will be going through all the recent email requests and hope to reply to all over the weekend.

Regards
John

Hi all,

I will be away for a few days from today, back to work on Tuesday 28th Aug 2007.

If you have any major problems please contact www.eclipse2000hosting.co.uk and they will do their best to help you or if need be they will contact me directly.

Chat soon
John

Hello again,

I’ve been asked a few times if Build Me A Website can supply business cards, unfortunately we don’t. But what I can do is recommend a company that I’ve been using for a few years now.

The last time I used VistaPrint I came away with a great bargain. I was ordering 1000 business cards just to test the water before going for a bulk order, as I was completing the order process I was asked if I would like another 500 cards for only an extra £7.50. I accepted the offer which brought the price per card down by around a third.

All new customers can get 250 business cards for free and every couple of weeks or so they send out further offers by email.

One thing I need to make you aware of before you place an order is a little thing they do that catches a few people out. When your creating an account/placing an order there will be a tick box or even just a little bit of small print that refers to VPRewards or ClubPrem, it will cost you £9.95 a month, don’t sign up for it you don’t need it. Its a rewards club, they are suppose to send you details of special offers in your local high street stores and from what I’ve heard the offers are far and few between.

Signing up for VPRewards/ClubPrem can easily be avoided by being sure what you are clicking on as it does say what you are about to do, and you could miss it by just clicking away and not reading properly what it is you are actually agreeing to.

If you do end up signing up for it by mistake don’t worry as its easy to unsubscribe, to be sure just keep an eye on your bank statements after placing your order.

Sorry if that all sounded a bit negative but I would sooner you know about it and not get caught out.

A positive note, your VistaPrint account remembers your previous orders which makes it so easy to re-order more cards. They offer so much more than just business cards, I have a client who has used them for his letter headed paper, flyers, business cards, wedding invitations and lots more.

The card below is if I remember rightly one of the free 250 business cards I received when I opened my account, its not brilliant but it did a job for me and thats all I needed at the time.

VistaPrint are certainly worth a look.

Hope this helps, chat soon.
John

Great book recommendation, Seth Godin - Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable.

I’ve heard this book mentioned a few times on a couple of different podcasts, thought it would be a good idea to get a copy and see for myself. So far its a fantastic read and I highly recommend it to you all, I picked up a copy for only £7.63 delivered from ‘Amazon‘.

Amazon

A little about the book

You’re either a Purple Cow or you’re not. You’re either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice. What do Apple, Starbucks, Dyson and Pret a Manger have in common? How do they achievespectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and-true brands to gasp their last? The old checklist of P’s used by marketers - Pricing, Promotion, Publicity - aren’t working anymore.

The golden age of advertising is over. It’s time to add a new P - the Purple Cow.”Purple Cow” describes something phenomenal, something counterintuitiveand exciting and flat-out unbelievable. In his new bestseller, Seth Godin urges you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable.

It’s a manifesto for anyone who wants to help create products and services that are worth marketing in the first place.

What people are saying about the book

“I love this book! Part wake up call, part action plan, Seth Godin’s Purple Cow shows organizations how to add distinction and avoid extinction-in today’s new economy.”

“Seth Godin may be the best intuitive marketer alive today. He’s in that tiny subset of the niche within the microcommunity of people who simply get it.”

“Purple cow is great inspiration for marketers who have the guts to make real changes and real impact!”

“Definitely above the herd of typical marketing books.”

“I read this book and it changed my life. Being remarkable is the most important aspect when doing business. Traditional advertising and mass marketing is old-fashioned.
By being remarkable, you need to use your imagination capital, in order to create a purple cow.
Once you’ve created a Purple Cow, you can count on it to drive more traffic to your website or boost your growth. But it doesn’t stop here, you have to milk it and think about the next step, that is launching another Purple Cow.”

Get the book now - Amazon.co.uk

Hello all,

Hope you are all well and keeping busy, in this weeks newsletter I want to tell you about the new BMAWS Blog and a great podcast I recently came across.

First of the blog. If you don’t already know what a blog is here is a simple explanation.

The term blog is short for web log, a “log” of diary-like entries published on a web site. This is how it started, people publishing their daily thoughts for all to read on their website. Often the blog entries occur as short, quick snippets – a link to something cool found on the web, an opinion, an idea, a rant. And sometimes they are longer, thoughtful essays. Sometimes new entries are produced every few minutes, and sometimes just once and a while. It all depends on the author and what she or he wants to express.

Please take the time to look over the new BMAWS Blog, add it to your favourites, please! www.blog.bmaws.com

Now let me tell you about the podcast I’ve found. I’ve know about podcasts for a while but never really taken the time to listen to any. I recently got a new mp3 player and thought it would be a good idea to find something other than music to listen to. I did a search and came across a great business podcast that has been around for a couple of years, ok so I’m kicking myself for not finding it sooner but the good thing is all the past podcasts are archived on the site so can be easily downloaded. I’ve started from number 1 and I’m up to number 23 now, I recommend you try and listen to them all as everyone so far as been good.

The site is www.smallbizpod.co.uk

I hope to see some of you commenting on the blog real soon and if there is anything BMAWS can do to help you with your website you know where we are.

Kind regards
John

Hello and welcome to the new Build Me A Website blog.

My name is John Wilkinson, Founder and CEO of Build Me A Website. I’ve taken it upon myself to build, edit and maintain our new blog, so here’s hoping I do a good job, all comments are welcome.

What do I plan to do with the blog?
I’m going to share what I think are useful websites and programs along with keeping the BMAWS clients up to date with all the latest news and ideas. I will also post the BMAWS Newsletters on here after they have been sent out, like a kind of a archive for my fantastic newsletters

Please feel free to use the comments section of this blog, let me know what you think to my posts plus ask any questions you have with regards what I post.

Chat soon, John.