Posts by Simon Measures
How does Blogging Help my Sales?
The one question I keep asking myself when spending the time writing a blog is “does my blog actually help bring in sales?” In fact this seems to be the one thing that everyone wants to know the answer to. Well the answer is…. I really cannot say for certain. From memory, no one has…
Read MoreWho are you selling to?
Marketing Personas – Do you know who you are selling to? In today’s more cluttered and spend-conscious online world, being clear on who you want to see your marketing message is more important than ever. As a simple example, how interested would you be to receive information about tyre fitting equipment when you run a…
Read MoreAutomation just makes things go wrong quicker!
Many years and several business lifetimes ago, during a meeting about organising stock handling, it seemed an obvious solution, to me at least, to computerise and automate the entire process. Parts come in, they are checked against the computer for accuracy against order, entered into the stock and then a barcode is printed and stuck…
Read MoreIn times of uncertainty, hold your nerve and keep Doing the Marketing.
Originally written and published in May 2019 but still relevant today! During the current climate of uncertainty about the current and future economy, it is very easy to ‘batten down the hatches’ and hold out for an improvement later. The risk of this strategy is missing out on current opportunities and worse, allowing a competitor…
Read MoreHow to Stop Feeling like your Marketing is just shouting in the Dark
As a fellow small business owner, I share your concerns that, after all the effort and money we put into marketing our product or service offering, it is either being ignored or worse not being seen at all. This feeling is worse when we look at more traditional outlets such as Magazine or Newspaper adverts…
Read MoreHow do we, as small businesses, beat the ‘big players’ in our market?
From recent experiences it seems that the level of service that we can expect from the larger companies, using the excuse ‘owing to covid’, has become one of an ongoing and continuing reduction in free live telephone support and an inexorable move towards online automated ‘Chat Bots’. Now large companies have made us move from…
Read Moreit is tough being a small business owner these days
It is tough being a Small Business Owner these days – perhaps we can help! Over the next 4 weeks, we will take a look at some key changes happening in your market places as well as some ideas to help you take advantage of new methods of working. Many people look at entrepreneurship as a…
Read More5 Web Design Trends 2022
Leading from the front. It is always nice to be proven correct about something. Especially when it comes to something as important as websites which are the shop windows of our customers’ businesses. Some of the elements of websites have been noted as design trends for 2022, although most of these we have been using…
Read MoreThe Joys? Of Working From Home – Part 3
The Joys? Of Working from Home – Part 3 Break Away From Your Screens! Like a lot of UK-based companies, Creatively Yours has had to change and adapt the way that we work over the past year. So, whether your office is in San Francisco, Sydney, or Saffron Walden you have had to become used…
Read MoreThe Joys of Working from Home – Part 2 Keep on Moving
The Joys? Of Working from Home – Part 2 Like a lot of UK-based companies, Creatively Yours has had to change and adapt the way that we work over the past year. So whether your office is in San Francisco, Sydney, or Saffron Walden you have had to become used to video calls and working…
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