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.

The Economic See-Saw

By Simon Measures | August 30, 2024

While politicians and economists do their best to persuade, mainly themselves, that the UK economy is doing well, in reality we have already fallen into a technical recession once this year and the remainder of the year looks set for more instability. A recent economist’s report in The Times has…

Small Business Britain Report

By Simon Measures | August 12, 2024

The 10th annual State of Small Business Britain recently published, shows that despite small businesses making up more than 99% of the business population and accounting for more than 50% of jobs, the level of support available is currently insufficient and too fragmented. Over the last decade, small business growth…

Customer’s now have a Megaphone not just a voice

By Simon Measures | July 25, 2024

It is almost certain that, at some time, you will have had a conversation that goes along these lines “Why are you doing XYZ for that customer, it was not part of their order…” usually from your Accounts Manager when looking at budgets. They have an absolute right to ask…

Customer Loyalty or where have all the customers gone?

By Simon Measures | July 3, 2024

To thrive in the current retail environment, as detailed in our recent blogs, you need to overcome a wide range of challenges and hopefully we have helped you make the first step in identifying them. Today, we are looking at something that is dear to us all, which is customer…

Honesty is not the best, it is the only policy

By Simon Measures | June 25, 2024

As you may have seen during the current political campaign, in these days of putting your entire life online, it is all too easy to be caught out in a half-truth. This is even more so when it comes to product sales. A quick look through You Tube and there…

Everyone does everything Online now anyway – Don’t they?

By Simon Measures | June 12, 2024

Online services, while offering 24/7 convenience, are not without their fair share of niggling issues and drawbacks. Certainly you will be all too aware of the privacy risks that constant connectivity exposes us to, coupled with the threat of data breaches. This is without the problems of needing to have…

In an ocean of poor service – stand out as an island

By Simon Measures | May 31, 2024

With all of the advances in the use of AI and the increase in ways to contact companies, such as via direct messaging, Facebook, X, Chatbots etc. we should be living in a golden age of brilliant customer service and record levels of consumer satisfaction – so what has gone…

Why are visitors not buying from me – Part 3

By Simon Measures | May 16, 2024

In the previous blogs, we looked at the first and second biggest loss of purchases, which were “a complicated, confusing or difficult to follow website or sales process” and then “is your website old fashioned, unprofessional or using outdated imagery?” We discussed the fact that there are dozens of articles…

Why are visitors not buying from me? – Part 2

By Simon Measures | May 9, 2024

In the last blog, we looked at the first, and arguably the biggest loss of purchases which was complicated, confusing, or difficult to follow website or sales process. We discussed the fact that there are dozens of articles and reports online where you can find the latest, most up-to-date statistics…

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In times of uncertainty, hold your nerve and keep Doing the Marketing.

By Simon Measures | March 13, 2026

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…

Is a culture of late payments undermining UK SMEs?

By Simon Measures | March 13, 2026

The latest Small Business Strategy from the Business and Trade Committee has urged the Government to address the late payment crisis that disproportionately affects smaller UK SMEs. According to this survey, businesses are currently owed an average of £66,770 in unpaid invoices, representing a 10 percent increase from the previous year. While the survey does…

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