Author: Stephen Spry

Nickame: sspry

Real Name: Stephen Spry

Profile: Online as a full-time web designer since 1995, Stephen has extensive experience in developing and marketing web sites for small businesses. His own extensive network of web sites also provides multiple opportunities for small business owners to improve the effectiveness of their own sites, by following Stephen's advice, or using his Internet services.To contact Stephen please telephone (in Australia) 02 6559 8666 during normal office hours, or use this contact form.

Website: http://www.comeonaussie.com

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Posts by Stephen Spry

Advance Australia Fair!

It’s time to run the Aussie flag right up to the top of the flagpole and celebrate some of the really great home grown web sites that come right out of the lucky country! I’ve been a tad “patriotic” on this issue since… well... More...

Changes To National “Do Not Call” Register

I just received an email from the (Australian) Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy regarding a discussion paper they have just released regarding the “eligibility requirements for registration on the Do Not Call Register” According... More...

My Listing’s Gone… What Happened?

As part of our recent facelift, I outsourced the manual removal of some 1000+ small business listings to bring the site totally up to date and make it more consistent with what I feel my visitors expect to find. There were four criteria used to “kill”... More...

How to Make A Painless Move to a New Web Host

Two things can go seriously wrong when you move to a new web hosting provider. Follow this simple guide to doing it without too many dramas. Any move to a new hosting provider can mean huge losses to your business if things aren’t done correctly.... More...

Add Your Articles To SBSN

Article marketing is an effective way to build back-links to your site and establish a good reputation for you name/business. SBSN offers registered members the opportunity to submit items to two main sections on this site. They are the “Your News”... More...

9 Steps To A Strategic Plan

On a scale of one to ten, having a good business strategy rates about a fifteen! No matter what kind of business you have — whether you sell products or a service, as the saying goes, “if you fail to plan, then you’re really planning... More...

Choosing A Domain Name

In today’s world, we are constantly inundated with marketing messages. In his “The New Positioning,” Jack Trout states that the average person will have seen over 140,000 TV commercials by the time he or she reaches 18 years of age. The... More...

Domain Names 101

This page deals with the basic issues related to where your information is stored on the Internet - such things as web servers, hosting, domain names etc Web Servers For your business information to be seen on the Internet, it must live on a web server... More...

Don’t Know A Domain From A URL?

New to the Internet? Don’t know a domain name from a URL? Our preliminary outline of what’s involved in doing business on the Internet is aimed at someone with little or no knowledge of the Internet. The first step involves a very basic understanding... More...

How to say “No”

The most effective time saving strategy of all is the use of the word “No”. Although not always possible to do so, you don’t have to offer a long winded explanation about why you can’t do something, and you’ll quickly find... More...

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