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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.
Style over function? or in other words – Keep it simple!
It has been a trend over many years that high fashion brands, when promoting their products, especially perfumes and aftershaves, generally use very visually exciting imagery, but do tend to leave the viewer a bit stumped as to what the message was. The same can be said for the websites…
Read MoreeCommerce – The challenges SMEs face and the solutions
Companies around the world and of every size and shape, face numerous challenges while everyone adapts to the rush to digital commerce business. Over the years we have written a number of blogs focussed on discussing and offering solutions to some of these challenges and offer some of these again…
Read MoreHow easy are you to deal with?
(especially if something, as it almost always does, goes wrong) During an internal chat about a completely unconnected story this week, it struck us that many companies in the UK, especially larger ones, all seemed to suffer from the same problem – blame avoidance culture. What do we mean by…
Read MoreHow Often Should You Back-Up Your Data?
Following on from our recent blog where we, gently, alerted you to the potential dangers that come from opening un-solicited, spam, phishing emails. Imagine now that you have clicked on one of those links and the worst has happened…all of your data is now missing. Sounds like a nightmare, but…
Read MorePhishing is not Fun
(Although, for many Fishing is!) You may have noticed the recent increase in emails landing in your inbox, either confirming that your delivery is held ‘pending a small payment’ or reporting some ‘unusual activity’ on your account, that needs you to follow a random link, to check and resolve and…
Read MoreAvoid False Promises and Fake Search Terms
After a cry of frustration was heard in the office, it suddenly became clear what we should be blogging about this time. False Search terms. So what do we mean by that? Put simply, you type a search term into your choice of search engine, in our case Bio Ethanol…
Read MoreDo not Hide your Telephone Number
Internet access via mobile, tablets, and PC’s is so quick and easy that we, in line with a great many other companies, will do a quick telephone number look up of a new number, while the phone is still ringing. Almost immediately we can see if it is likely to…
Read MoreTerms and Conditions Apply?
How long are your Terms and Conditions of Sale – a couple of easy to read pages or do they span numerous pages? The reason for asking relates to problems our customers have had with their other website design and hosting suppliers in the past. To give some sort of…
Read MoreThings Could Turn Ugly – So how will you respond?
All the signs are there for an economic downturn over the next few months which, coming so soon after the recent upheavals, will mean that things could turn ugly, commercially speaking. In previous Blog Posts we have spoken about holding your nerve and having faith in your marketing (available HERE)and…
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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 the question, as their role…
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 loyalty. As the retail industry…
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