Interview with Lisa Sabin-Wilson of EWebscapes Blog Design Studio 

[Mike] Firstly can I say a big thank you for agreeing to take the time to participate in this interview. I tend to say a big thank you to anyone who agrees to provide the Voisd Webmaster Blog and its readers with an insight into the running of their business however your schedule appears to be fuller than most at the moment due to you agreement to undertake the task of writing the official “Wordpress for Dummies” book for Wiley Publishing. This is obviously an excellent opportunity although thoroughly deserved, how did such an opportunity arise?

[Lisa] A big thank you right back for your interest, Mike. My schedule is extremely full right now, especially with the WordPress for Dummies project. It has been quite a large project that eats up the majority of my time, lately. I am, however, almost finished with it, so hopefully I’ll be able to get things back to ‘normal’ - whatever that means.

The WordPress for Dummies project came about through a referral from a colleague of mine, Susie Gardener from Hop Studios.

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Interview with Matt Wallis, CEO of United Hosting – http://www.unitedhosting.co.uk

Matt, thank you for taking the time to participate in this online interview for the Voisd Webmaster Blog.

[Mike] United Hosting is just one part of United Communications, a much larger quality internet based service founded in 1998. How did United Hosting start and was it based on a natural business progression from one of your earlier projects?

[Matt] Our Company started life as Datatechnics UK Limited, providing local small/medium businesses with IT support and maintenance contracts. We installed IT requirements to many local businesses in the Hertfordshire area which would include such things as networks, internet connectivity and of course web hosting and email services. By 2000 our hosting services had outgrown our IT support contracts and we renamed to a more appropriate - United Communications Limited, with UnitedHosting being our trading name for hosted services. In the same year we allowed all our IT support contracts to expire, shifting our companies focus to 100% web hosting.

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How to Automate Your Lead Generation by Debbie LaChusa of 10stepmarketing.

As a small business owner or solo-professional you are undoubtedly very busy. After all, in addition to managing your business and servicing your clients you also are responsible for lead generation and marketing. That’s a lot of hats for one person, or even a small team of people, to wear.

One of the keys to building a successful small business is to automate and systematize as much of your business as possible. This frees up your time and allows you to focus on revenue-producing activities such as marketing, product creation, and client service. A task that is easy to automate is lead generation. (more…)