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Tania Shirgwin, BizEez Virtual Solutions

BizEez Virtual Solutions specialises in assisting businesses with their online marketing needs through social media, email marketing and WordPress ... Read more

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Paula Durrant, Durrant’s Accounting Services Pty Ltd

Paula Durrant is a tax accountant for small to medium businesses, and high income individuals. Read more

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Rebecca Lynn, Lightbulb Coaching

Lightbulb Coaching helps people find solutions to problems that are keeping them from shining brightly through face-to-face and phone coaching sess... Read more

Richard Jenner, The Type Shed

Richard Jenner, The Type Shed

Richard Jenner does graphic design, for any application - print, web, packaging, shop fronts, signs... anything that requires text / images arrange... Read more

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Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo

Peter Crocker, marketing head honcho, Sam Leader, editorial big cheese and Robert Gerrish, founder and general nuisance spill the beans. Read more

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Tom Evison, Enigma Technologies

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Sandy Naidu, OzKidsActivities Pty Ltd

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Gabriel Dukes, Shelcom Corporate Services

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Sharon Chim, Queen Bee Maternity

Queen Bee Maternity provides stylish maternity and breastfeeding clothes for women worldwide. It helps them to feel great during their pregnancy. Read more

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Kalindi Chirmuley, Mulayam Products

Mulayam Products manufactures natural skin care products for all ages and all skin types. It helps to take care of the skin and enhance its beauty. Read more

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Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration

Pace Administration offers administrative services to micro and self-employed businesses in Adelaide specialising in services for self-employed psy... Read more

Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual

Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual

Upclose & Virtual provides professional, cost effective, secretarial services for businesses and individuals throughout Australia to reduce the bur... Read more

Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy

Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy

Karen Churchill helps her clients achieve their goals by communicating as well as possible with the people who matter to them. This can be done by ... Read more

Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy

Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy

Donna Garrett-Young has been a passionate renovator and builder for nearly 20 years, and is the author of the book 'Home Building Made Easy - Five ... Read more

Monika Mundell, Copywriter

Monika Mundell, Copywriter

Monika Mundell, along with her husband John, provides a comprehensive suite of sizzling copywriting services to entrepreneurs, Internet marketers, ... Read more

Daniel Abela, Graphic & Web

Daniel Abela, Graphic & Web

Daniel Abela is a graphic and web designer offering digital and print solutions to clients of all sizes right around Australia. Read more

Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design

Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design

Function5 Web Design creates and manages an online presence for small businesses, from basic information websites through to feature rich shopping ... Read more

Richard Lin, iParaV Pty Ltd

Richard Lin, iParaV Pty Ltd

Richard Lin is an IT consultant and the boss of iParaV Pty Ltd, a business dealing with cloud business management. Read more

Roland Hanekroot, New Perspectives Small Business Bootcamp

Roland Hanekroot, New Perspectives Small Business Bootcamp

Roland Hanekroot is a small business coach in Sydney who works with small business owners who want to make a big shift in their business and turn i... Read more

Jen Clark, Jen Clark Design

Jen Clark, Jen Clark Design

Jen Clark is an experienced freelance graphic and web designer specialising in the delivery of innovative logo and branding solutions and functiona... Read more

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Web design and development expert

Sydney, NSW | www.thewebshowroom.com.au

David Lawrence has been planning and building effective websites for business since 1997. He is one of the founders of The Web Showroom, a 100% owned Australian company that provides small businesses with an easy way to own a professional and effective website.

In the past decade, David has managed teams that have built literally hundreds of websites. In this time he has seen it all, from spectacular online successes to missed opportunities. Experience has taught him that planning and understanding where it is you are going is vital when it comes to creating a website.

The Web Showroom was created to ensure that small businesses and their owners could get on with their business whilst enjoying the easiest and most effective way of creating and maintaining a great looking and powerful business website.

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What’s your website’s mission?

15 Nov 10 | David Lawrence

Whether you’re aware of it or not, your website has a mission. Your website's mission is the one thing it needs to achieve above all else. Read more

Comments: 12

Business website mistakes: Ten things to avoid

11 Oct 10 | David Lawrence

The internet changes at a rapid pace, and many features that were once regarded as best practice have now fallen out of favour. Here are some common business website mistakes. Read more

Comments: 38

Generating leads through your website visitors

06 Sep 10 | David Lawrence

Understanding the role your website plays in your business can help convert visitors into leads and sales, just by highlighting contact details appropriately. Read on to find out more about generating leads through your website visitors. Read more

Comments: 11

Google: Organic versus AdWords

30 Jun 08 | David Lawrence

Everyone wants to rank well in Google. Did you know, though, that there is more than one way to get to the top of the pack? Read on to find out the difference between organic versus AdWords to ensure you don’t miss out on a very real opportunity. Read more

Comments: 7

Mistakes to avoid when creating a website - Part 3

16 May 08 | David Lawrence

Part one discussed mistakes to avoid when creating a website. Part two further explored this idea looking at how to pick a web developer and the importance of compatibility and simplicity. In this final part we look at how to handle limitations. Read more

Comments: 4

Mistakes to avoid when creating a website - Part 2

10 Apr 08 | David Lawrence

My first article looked at common mistakes to avoid when creating a website. Here I explore the idea further by looking at the benefits of keeping your website simple, how to pick a web developer and the importance of compatibility. Read more

Comments: 19

Mistakes to avoid when creating a website - Part 1

18 Jan 08 | David Lawrence

A website is an important tool for soloists when it comes to communicating with existing clients and attracting new ones. In this article I will discuss four common mistakes to avoid when creating a website for your business. Read more

Comments: 11

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