[tweetmeme source=”ChazGunningham” only_single=false]Is Perth a good place for startups? The jury’s out on this one, with some folks at the recent StartUp Weekend launch saying “absolutely” and yet others decrying Perth’s lack of funding and big win examples. It’s certainly true that there are some cool start ups here in WA, with Discovr being a very...Read More
I’ve been noticing a trend over the past year or so, that may point to the death of the website (and world wide web) as we know it. Like you, dear reader, I have apps on my iPhone (and now iPad) that are holding more and more of my attention. I am visiting ‘web sites’ less...Read More
Two years ago we had our official launch of the WA Internet Business Association (eGroup) and we were casting around for an inspirational speaker. As the inaugural President, I had one name on my list, the CEO of iiNet, Michael Malone. Anyone in WA would know of his company, that seemed to mop up all...Read More
A few years ago I picked up a stat from I know not where that “after 8 seconds, if your web site does not load and users know where to go, 50% will leave the site completely“. I reckon that is more like 2 seconds today. Two seconds. Reminds me of the highway code saying...Read More
87% of all searching online is done at google.com. Google is responsible for a third to half of most web sites’ traffic. Most of this traffic is ‘free’ (your site appearing in the free search results) but a proportion is due to Adwords (the paid for bit in the shaded area). For branding purposes, traffic,...Read More
Do clients of yours, of many years standing, drift off and do business elsewhere? Frustrating isn’t it?! Anyone in sales knows the hard smack of rejection this emotes. Not nice. Consumer behaviour theory will tell you that people make purchasing decisions based on a variety of factors – with primacy and recency being high among them....Read More
As some of you know, I set up and ran an online business back in 1999 and ran it successfully til it was sold in 2010. I now work for my new masters, deploying what I learned over the past decade or so, on a much larger scale. I’m having lots of fun. Today, I...Read More
