Article Vault. Online Business Articles by Stephen Dunbar

Customer Service Quotes by Stephen Dunbar.
Take special care of your customers'. When a customer is in your presence, treat her like a queen. Ask yourself, how may you better serve her today?. Put yourself in your customers' shoes. How would you like to be treated if you were your own customer?...

Customer loyalty quotes by Stephen Dunbar.
Customer loyalty, starts with understanding, why, right now, customers' are staying with you. Your aim is too excel at pleasing loyal customers. Satisfied customers will in turn, spread the good oil to their friends...

Top Ten Strategies for Delivering 5-Star Customer Service by Bea Fields (Off-Line Biz)
Customer satisfaction is valuable, but customer loyalty is priceless. In today's competitive world of business, it is becoming more and more important to deliver customer service that is unbeatable...

Money Saving Tips. Strategies to save your business cash.

Run Your Car On Water and Save Yourself Money and help the environment by Stephen Dunbar
One of your huge costs in running a business is fuel to get your CAR from A to B. If you could run your car on water, would you consider it....

Doing Business Online. Startup advice, online banking tips and set big goals.

Advice starting a small business online by Stephen Dunbar.
Learn everything you can about doing business online. Most businesses online take anywhere from 6 months to 5 years to grow and start earning you a full-time income. The trick is to stop thinking ....

Online Banking Tips by Stephen Dunbar.
Change passwords regularly, at least every 30 days. Make sure you use both letters and numbers in your password. Remember, hackers, trying to guess your password, may use password detection software running through 100,000 english words in 30 minutes...

Big Goals by Maura Schreier-Fleming.
Even when I had no products to sell and no customers, I still set big goals. Goals are fuel for your motivation to achieve. We all should be setting goals for our selling and other areas of our life. If you want to learn the process for setting goals that contribute to your success, let me tell you about the book that I’m going to write...

Writing Tips. Write great content and write smarter.

Write Great Content by Stephen Dunbar.
Here is a smart web site promotions campaign, ideal for small businesses, with a limited marketing budget but armed with plenty of industry experience and a passion for writing...

Write Smarter by Stephen Dunbar.
Grab a pen, and write on a stick-em note, "The best writers online use simple words a 12 year old could understand". Stick it to your monitor...

Useful Computer Tips. Reduce spam, viruses & hackers.

Free Spam Protection Tips by Stephen Dunbar.
The Online Business Tutor recommends you Kill Spam and Viruses and Enable a Firewall to protect your business data. Firstly, Take careful measures to reduce Spam....

Detect Viruses Early by Stephen Dunbar.
Hackers are using viruses with one goal in mind. Crackers want to turn your computer into a vegetable. Worse case senario, hackers will gain access to your data and use it against you. e.g Steal your identity and on-sell to criminals.

Use a Firewall to help protect your information by Stephen Dunbar.
What does this mean to you?. Stop hackers from accessing your computer to steal, nuke or sell your data. For the last 3 years, my day job has been working as a Broadband and Dialup Technican for a large Internet Service Provider in Sydney, Australia. I regularly answer phone calls troubleshooting difficult connection problems...

Hosting, Domain names & Email Advice. Web hosting guide.

Business and charity web hosting guide by Stephen Dunbar.
Business and charity web hosting tip. When you manage a business site online, in plain terms, don't let your web host "stuff you around", providing poor service and site downtime. Make sure you always research your host before you commit to them...

Link Trading Advice. Link exchange tips and the power of link trading.

Links Exchange Advice by Stephen Dunbar.
The Online Business Tutor recommends you start your own links exchange program. Having your own Links exchange program is a key strategy for improving your search engine ranking. Search engines often rank your site according to how many similar sites are linking to your site...

Link Trading - Getting the Good - Avoiding the Bad by Jack Feka
The practice of link trading or link exchanging is a powerful concept with an inherent flaw that could lead many people to toss it into the trash bin unless the flaw is recognized and avoided...

PC Maintenance tips. Backup your data, speed up your computer, keyboard & excel shortcut keys, useful modem strings for dialup connections.

Backup Your Data by Stephen Dunbar.
Do backup your most important files. In my early uni days, I did not backup a few important files on my hard drive and quickly lost my data when my hard drive went down. I lost 2 or 3 days of solid assignment work. I learnt the hard way to backup my data else risk losing days or even worse, years of work...

Remove Memory Hungry Startup Items by Stephen Dunbar.
Speed up your computer. Remove unwanted startup items from your computer and FREE up your RAM. If you computer is running slower than when you first purchased it, chances are, 20 or 30 items are hogging your precious memory (RAM)...

Keyboard Shortcuts by Stephen Dunbar.
Keyboard Shortcuts to make you just alittle faster operating your computer. Copy: CTRL + C. Cut: CTRL + x. Paste: CTRL + V. Undo: CTRL Z. Redo: CTRL R...

Excel Help by Stephen Dunbar.
Excel shortcut keys. Ctrl + B: Bold selection. Ctrl + I: Italic selection. Ctrl + K: Insert link. Ctrl + U: Underline selection. F11: Create a chart. F7: Spell check selected text and or document...

Useful modem strings for dialup connections by Stephen Dunbar.
If your modem is causing you trouble trying use this modem string...

Online Design Tips. Best site designs and photos & clipart.

Best Site Designs by Stephen Dunbar.
Sure the hand-painted fish may look pretty, but is it necessary?. Ask yourself this question as you design your site. Could a ten year old girl navigate around my site to find what she needs?. If she can't. Change your design until she can...

Photos & Clipart Free Downloads by Stephen Dunbar.
Adding small, eye-pleasing images to your site, can help your readers digest your site's valuable content, easier. Probably more than half of your readers, are visual people, who respond quicker by seeing visual cues while reading your inspiring content. Chances are, your readers will...

Web Design Mistakes by Tad Coffin
Some wise human once said "Learn from the mistakes of others. There isn't nearly enough time to make them all yourself." Hence this article. Here are five of the most annoying and common web design mistakes...

Online Sales Advice. Ezines rock, edit testimonials only to fix spelling mistakes & auto-responders.

Ezines Rock by Stephen Dunbar.
A great ezine will provide high-value information to it's readers on a specific topic. A great ezine will benefit it's readers by...

Edit Testimonials Only to Fix Spelling Mistakes. Don't Fake It. by Stephen Dunbar.
Now read this again to yourself, Credible testimonials placed throughout your website can substantially improve your web sales. It's true. So do it!.Here are simple techniques you can use to help make your testimonials shine like a beacon...

Auto-Responders by Stephen Dunbar.
Used wisely, autoresponders (AR), are a powerful tool to grow your ezine subscriber list, gain direct sales or provide 5 day email courses to interested opt-in parties. AR are easy to setup and maintain. No special technical knowledge is required either...

Reduce your phone bill. Enable call control (call baring).

Enable call control (call baring) by Stephen Dunbar.
Stop your kids or worse others (including adult dialers from software your kids may have downloaded) dialing 1900, international or national phone numbers without your consent. Enable call control (call baring) to help protect yourself from a scary phone bill...