Learning to say no at the right time can save you and your company time, effort and and a lot of pain. Said at the wrong time and it’ll bring you all of those and more.

We were recently offered a project to work on solely as designers to another agencies project. We’ve worked with these guys before and love working with them and still do. The budget was great and with the business booked out for a whole week it seemed to make great business sense to take it on. We’d already figured that this project alone could easily be used to re-invest in a new mac and all the software plus more for a new employee so there was a great reason to take the project on. But things don’t always run smoothly and in hindsight we should have refused the project from our original gut feeling.

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Last week we watched a short video from Think Vitamin where Ryan Carson talked with Paul Boag about ‘The Demise Of The Website’ (amongst other things). But what was he really getting at? Well having talked about it within the team we think he was trying to get across that your website (however great it is) is not enough when it comes to attracting new business via the web.

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If you own a website then you are bound to be concerned about getting it noticed. All to often people believe that if they put up a professional looking website, traffic will come - This is not the case. You need to actively promote your websites products/services and post relevant information to potential new customers or clients, this doesn’t need to be costly - it just takes time.

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For many years we have used MSN Messenger to drop friends and colleagues short messages and interesting links, and from examples I’ve seen of Twitter - it doesn’t seem all that different.

What Twitter allows us to do is share relevant information with like-minded people, people that you may never get a chance to meet otherwise. It also opens up an opportunity to shamelessly promote yourself, your business and the services you offer. Here are a few things to consider before you twitter…

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Now there’s more ways to start following us online. Already hooked up to these sites? Then invite us, join us or signup yourself and start experiencing the social web and stay in touch with the latest news and interests from FHOKE.

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