We always recommend you track the visitor statistics for your website closely - and the best tool by far for doing that is Google Analytics.

Powerful, sophisticated, free - Google Analytics is a must have for every internet entrepreneur.  Here's a summary of what Google Analytics tracks.

Facebook passed an important milestone recently – it’s 500 millionth user.  That means one in every 14 people on the planet has a Facebook account.

Facebook has achieved something no other social networking tool has ever done – achieved real critical mass.

What are some of the pros and cons of Facebook from a business and personal perspective?

Social networking grows in importance day by day.  Whilst Facebook's for fun and Twitter's for teasing, LinkedIn is very professional.  When you want to showcase your business skills, your LinkedIn profile is the place it's at.

Read a new post on our sales blog Sales Success and More about how to build the perfect LinkedIn profile.

An obvious question for any business.  But one that surprisingly the majority of businesses are not able to answer well. 

And when you're creating a new website for your business, a fundamenatl question to answer for lots of reasons.

When you want your business to grow and prosper, understanding who your customers are and what they want from you is key to success.  Here’s a methodology to help you define your customers and how best to give them what they want.

I’ve just listened to an interview with Jakob Nielsen – the acknowledged web guru on web usability.  He takes an uncompromising view that business websites are for your customers, not for you. 

Some of Jakob Nielsen’s key issues with website usability today are:

WordPress has released the latest edition of its open source publishing platform - WordPress 3.0, dubbed Thelonious. 

The new release aims to consolidate the task of managing multiple blogs, and streamline the user interface for site administrators.

We like Wordpress at Big Bang Business.  If you want a simple website that’s easy to look after, Wordpress is brilliant.

Wow - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and all the others are now accounting for 110 billion minutes of web users' time every month.

Internet users have doubled the time they spend on social networking pages in the past year, according to new research from the Nielsen Group.

The latest thing internet entrepreneurs are using is Facebook advertising. And it’s not hard to see why they’re excited! Think about this:

When businesses start selling on the web, there's a raft of consumer protection legislation that applies throughout the EU to be aware of. 

If you're operating fairly, there's nothing to be afraid of.  However, it's good to understand what the regulations are so you don't fall foul of them.

Good practice at selling on the internet is closely coupled with the Distance Selling Regulations.  The key points to consider are:

Recently we’ve had conversations with lots of people wanting to start selling products on the web.  And they all want to keep stock to be able to offer immediate delivery.

Great concept, awful implementation.  One of the core principles of selling on the web is to sell somebody else’s stock. 

It’s called drop shipping, and here’s how it works.