Kevin S Brown

This article explains how you can use WordPress as a simple membership site. This is what we use to deliver the online magazine we publish. There are of course many advantages of using WordPress to run your website and I won’t discuss them here. Instead I will show you how a specific built-in feature of [...]

There are many ways to promote a local small business online (eg. business directories, mapping services, social media such as Twitter and Facebook Pages etc). Some business owners already have experience of a couple of these online methods – others don’t know where to start, or what their business might benefit from. In this “patchwork [...]

It’s pretty clear that I have neglected this blog recently.  New posts have been infrequent over the past year or so. So to encourage me to write some new articles and  make amends for my lack of updates, I have joined Dr Mani’s Blog Challenge for January. The aim is to write 30 new articles [...]

This follows on from the first article about our startup small business consultancy. You might want to see that first. To get any startup consultancy going, you need some clients. That’s pretty obvious!  So we set out to find local small businesses, who wanted help with their online marketing. Now, some of us are naturally [...]

Over the last couple of years, there has been lots of hype in internet and webmaster circles, about selling services to help local small businesses market themselves online. Many courses have been offered, promising to teach you everything you need to be successful at small business consulting. It’s often suggested that it’s as “easy as [...]