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.
Terms 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…
Things 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…
How are Scammers Affecting Your Marketing?
With the recent increases in Energy and Petrol prices, coupled with the worry that everyone has about spiralling costs, it is not necessarily a surprise that a number of, not exactly honest, companies have hit the adverts offering seemingly too good to be true, super efficient heaters and fabulous fuel…
A quick guide to Google’s Helpful Content Update
The latest search algorithm update from Google has started to be implemented a little earlier than originally stated by them on the 18th August. The stated aim of this latest change was to help remove AI or computer dictated, or directed if you will, mass content. In order to help…
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.…
Who 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…
Automation 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…
How 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…
How 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…
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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…
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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