Category Business

In this section you can read Alledia blog posts about business issues.

The Impossibility of Hiring Good Staff

Hiring Good Staff

Is anyone nowadays keen to work for someone else? In the online world, I’m not so sure. Scoreboard Media started me on this train of thought about six months ago by asking: “If you can rank a site in lucrative…

The Eighty – Twenty Percent Rule

First up, apologies in advance but posting will be light this week. I’ve managed to write every workday this year, but my family are visiting from England and I’ll concentrate on spending time with them for a few days. I…

Business opportunities in the Joomla world

I’ve been following the Joomla GPL debate really closely, but have stayed away from blogging about my opinion. I’m not a 3rd party developer, nor I am I knowledgeable enough about the GPL to add more to the debate than…

Some Thoughts on GPL Business Models

A warning in advance – today’s blog post is a little disconnected. It is really a collection of thoughts I’ve had as people struggle through the question of “How 3rd party developers make money in the GPL’ed Joomla world?” Size…

6 Reasons Why SEO and Design Don’t Work

I don’t often piggyback on someone else’s work in blog posts, but this article was too good not to share (and besides, I became an uncle again in the last week and so I’m heading off to see the little…

A to Z of Hard-Earned Business Advice for Web-Designers

  Accountant – get one. You build websites. The mathematics in your code doesn’t mean you can do your books. A good accountant can save your business. Backup everything. Backup your sites, backup your databases, backup every computer everyday. Take…