creatively yours website design news and blog

creatively yours website design news and blog

Website Design News from Creatively Yours, with a dash of Small Business Helponomics. If we feel it will help our customers we will publish it, if we come across useful information we will pass it on. Also from our own desks, perhaps some bits and pieces that might shed some light on running a business.

Are Small Businesses under attack?…or is that just how it feels?

By Simon Measures | June 24, 2025

Recently, a number of changes, such as increases to National Insurance for employees, Identity Verification for Persons of Significant Control and Directors, increases in the numbers of online attacks, scammers and finally, and probably most significantly, the fluctuations in energy prices, fuel costs and vehicle excise duty, have increased the…

Uncertain Times for Business

By Simon Measures | May 21, 2025

From a recent publication from the House of Commons Library entitled – Economic Update: Uncertain Times for Business, we have deduced the following key information. The picture for economic growth for businesses over the coming months of 2025 is one of little or no growth. Put against a background of…

My business is slowing down, is it me or the economy?

By Simon Measures | March 20, 2025

Most experts agree that a definitive recession is unlikely in 2025 but the economic forecast and data do suggest that growth will be extremely sluggish, potentially even zero. With high interest rates, increasing costs and market uncertainties all conspiring to give your business quiet periods throughout the coming year. When…

How things have developed

By Simon Measures | February 27, 2025

AI Powered! The first video game, according to certain criteria, chief of which is the fact that the game has to be generated from a video signal and that the game play takes place on the screen, goes back to July 1952. It was not many years later that the…

Are you raring to go or do you have the January blues?

By Simon Measures | January 13, 2025

Coming back from any break away from the business, there is a little lag while you mentally bring yourself up to speed and then press forward with the new ideas that you had while away. For some reason this year, it feels like there is a little more lag and…

Do not underestimate the power of word of mouth

By Simon Measures | November 28, 2024

Good or bad, what people are saying about your company is spread faster than ever before. In our recent post we discussed the fact that customers now have a Megaphone not just a voice! (https://creatively-yours.co.uk/importance-of-customer-service/ and we pointed out that, rightly or wrongly, social media has given many more people…

Islands in an ocean of really poor service.

By Simon Measures | November 18, 2024

In a recent blog post we looked at the idea that, despite the ongoing movement towards the use of AI and the increasing ways that companies can be contacted. Where we should be living in a golden age of brilliant customer service it feels that something has and is going…

Taking Service Seriously

By Simon Measures | October 31, 2024

It was great today to come across another company that looks at the lifetime value of a customer, in much the same way as we have always promoted. In previous blogs we have extolled the virtues of accepting that things occasionally go wrong, no matter how hard you try. There…

SMEs Losing Confidence

By Simon Measures | October 21, 2024

With the new government’s ‘honeymoon’ period coming to an end, although some felt this ended some time ago, small business owners are now hoping that the current political upheaval is now over. For those in power, they should be worried about the latest research from Virgin StartUp as part of…

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Why the Economy is stuttering again!

By Simon Measures | April 28, 2026

Amidst the flood of news surrounding local elections and their potential impact on central government officials, the business community finds itself holding its breath, hesitant to commit to further spending until the repercussions become clear.

We all deserve some positive news – don’t you think?

By Simon Measures | April 13, 2026

Since the onset of recent global events, we’ve observed a growing influx of emails from businesses either promoting low-interest credit or valuing your enterprise. While these might be interpreted as negative signs, they could also indicate that companies still perceive opportunities for profit somewhere. The prevailing sentiment we gather is that, during times that are,…

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