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What To Know Before Hiring A Web Designer

What To Know Before Hiring A Web Designer

Over the past 15 years, I must have read, seen or heard literally hundreds, if not thousands of business owners say words to the effect “can anyone recommend a website designer?”. If asked in a public marketplace or group, the answers will inevitably be varied, and in great volume. Aside from professional services, a website […]

How To Measure Website Conversion Rate

How To Measure Website Conversion Rate

Your website conversion rate is a crucial figure when it comes to measuring the success of your website. Being able to measure the success of your website will underpin how scaleable your digital marketing plan is. Unless you are able to see which parts of your digital marketing is working (and which are not), dividing budgets, […]

Trading With COVID-19 – Being Web Ready

Trading With COVID-19 – Being Web Ready

We are sure by now that you’re finding ways to cope during the COVID-19 outbreak. It is a worrying time for any business and no doubt you’re wondering “how does my business bounce back from this?”. When all the madness is over you might want your business to pick up where it left off, and […]

Will GDPR Affect My Business?

Will GDPR Affect My Business?

You have probably heard of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that will come into force on 25th May 2018, but you may still be confused by the specific details and what exactly this means for your business. Our priority is to make sure that we offer our clients the relevant advice and information […]

Is More Website Traffic The Key To More Sales?

Is More Website Traffic The Key To More Sales?

February 5th 2018 When we talk to customers they often have one key focus in mind; getting more website visitors. Whilst this is an understandable goal for any business owner, we sometimes have to convince our clients that it shouldn’t always be at the top of the priority list. The Cost Of Website Traffic When you bring visitors to […]

The Checklist Of Launching A New Website

The Checklist Of Launching A New Website

Launching a new website is an exciting time for any business. You’re about to unleash your new brand, or new design onto the world. But in the excitement, it can be possible to forget about some of the crucial decisions and technical points which may impact your performance online. Below is a basic checklist, aimed at […]

Conversion Optimisation – Make The Most Of What You’ve Got!

Conversion Optimisation – Make The Most Of What You’ve Got!

A lot of our blog posts touch on the topics of generating business, and driving new traffic to your website. This time we thought we would look at it from a slightly different angle…. making the most of what you already have…. or as it’s more often referred to ‘conversion optimisation’. What Is Conversion Optimisation?It […]

How Photographs Can Make Or Break Your Website

How Photographs Can Make Or Break Your Website

So you went to all the trouble of having your website designed, and the results are amazing. You even went to the trouble of copy-writing all the text, and brainstorming your concept. However, did you make one really awful mistake? Did you use bad images! A quote I often use when talking to customers about their […]

Google Update Has Major Impact For All

Google Update Has Major Impact For All

Never ones to shy away from making technological decisions which bring mankind to their knees…. Google’s latest gift to us all is a refresh of the search results page we have all become so accustomed to. The traditional layout of 3 paid adverts at the top, and text ads down the right is going….going…gone. Well’ […]

Facebook Carousel Ads Using Magento

Facebook Carousel Ads Using Magento

If you’re a regular Facebook user, you will probably be familiar with the Carousel adverts which appear from some of the larger brands. For example like this one. Magento Facebook Pixel Extension Our coders have been working hard to develop a new Magento extension which makes Carousel adverts, as well as a wealth of other advertising options, […]

Why Your Adwords Campaign Needs A Coder

Why Your Adwords Campaign Needs A Coder

Earlier in the week we looked at some of the reasons you might want to out-source your Adwords campaigns. The article, available here, talked about some of the more basic elements an agency might be able to help you with, which predominantly comes down to time, and experience. Today we want to look at some of the more […]

Is Your Website Hindering Your Adwords Success?

Is Your Website Hindering Your Adwords Success?

Adwords is a Google service, aimed at attracting people to your business and to help drive conversions from your website. Adwords is fantastic product, and when your account is managed effectively you will see a gratifying return for the money you have invested in it. However with Adwords, a campaign is only as successful as the information it is based […]

How to launch a new website without destroying your business

How to launch a new website without destroying your business

Having recently launched our own new site, and worked with some existing client’s who had quite large sites and were looking to re-launch, we thought it would be worth a post about some of the things you should do, and NOT do when you are relaunching your website. Redirect, redirect, redirect! Aside from the obvious things such […]

Are Your Marketing Team Pushing Your Website?

Are Your Marketing Team Pushing Your Website?

Many Marketing Managers are given the task of commissioning the company website. Logically speaking this makes sense, but logistically speaking it is not always feasible for a marketing manager to take ownership of the site long-term, and ensure that it is being promoted sufficiently well. Why? Because making a website work, takes the one thing […]

How Keyword Research Tells us Everything about your Business

How Keyword Research Tells us Everything about your Business

Did you know that the majority of people find what they are looking for on the internet by typing keywords into a search engine such as Google? This means that it is vitally important that you identify the keywords in your own business and share them across the web with links that will enable potential […]

The Psychology Of Colour

The Psychology Of Colour

We just love this little graphic, and felt we had to share it with you all. We often refer to this image when creating brand, logos or indeed websites. The image is the result of a number of studies conducted on how the human brain reacts and engages with certain colours. There are some […]

A Better Website From Two Hours Every Monday

A Better Website From Two Hours Every Monday

e have all been there, Monday morning and a pile of emails, a pile of to-dos, and post-weekend feeling of ‘what now’. To add a little structure to your Monday’s, how about these three tasks which will all have a direct impact on your website’s performance. Google Analytics (1 hour) Yes I know, looking at […]

How Amazon Can Improve Your Website – Yes Amazon

How Amazon Can Improve Your Website – Yes Amazon

OK, so the title of this article might be slightly misleading, as the technology we are talking about isn’t exclusive to Amazon, but essentially some tools available from Amazon, the online book-come-everything reseller, can improve your website experience, and potentially your rankings. For several years now, Google has openly made it known that one of […]

Why Your Website is not Generating Sales

Why Your Website is not Generating Sales

Although it is not the sole reason for operating a website, the generation of revenue through sales remains the main purpose of creating and maintaining an internet presence. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, not all commercial websites produce the sales returns that their owners wish for. In this article we examine a few of […]

Need More clicks? Optimise Your Metas & Titles

Need More clicks? Optimise Your Metas & Titles

When you carry out a search on one of the popular internet search engines you will find that the results that appear contain not only the address of the websites in question but also incorporate snippets of information about the website page that the address refers to. These snippets of information are contained in the […]

The instant way to improve leads and sales – conversion optimisation.

The instant way to improve leads and sales – conversion optimisation.

There are several reasons for having a website for your business. One of these is for the purpose of showcasing your products. Another is to provide a medium to which your customers can be readily directed to obtain more information about your business and what it has to offer them. For both of these reasons, […]

Why Your Blog Needs To Be On Your Own Website

Why Your Blog Needs To Be On Your Own Website

When it comes to creating and managing a blog to help to generate increased traffic to your website you have two basic choices. The first is to create the blog using a tool such as Blogger or WordPress. These two, and other, dedicated blogging platforms are often free and easy to use, with straightforward content […]

Is Your Website Putting People to Sleep?

Is Your Website Putting People to Sleep?

Is Your Website Putting People to Sleep? October 30th 2013 It can be discouraging when a visitor to your website tells you, in no uncertain terms, that they find the site boring. It can also have a negative effect on their perception of the product that your site is showcasing, resulting in a lost business opportunity. […]

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