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.

Automation just makes things go wrong quicker!

By Simon Measures | July 15, 2022

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…

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News and Insights from Creatively Yours Website Design Great Yarmouth and Kettering

How to Stop Feeling like your Marketing is just shouting in the Dark

By Simon Measures | May 19, 2022

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…

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How do we, as small businesses, beat the ‘big players’ in our market?

By Simon Measures | February 21, 2022

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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News and Insights from Creatively Yours Website Design Great Yarmouth and Kettering

5 Web Design Trends 2022

By Simon Measures | October 25, 2021

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…

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The Joys? Of Working From Home – Part 3

By Simon Measures | September 20, 2021

The Joys? Of Working from Home – Part 3 Leave 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…

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The Joys of Working from Home – Part 2 Keep on Moving

By Simon Measures | August 31, 2021

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…

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The Joys? Of Working from Home

By Simon Measures | August 19, 2021

The Joys? Of Working from Home 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…

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5 Things a small business should avoid – Part 5 Balancing Quality with Growth

By Simon Measures | July 16, 2021

In common with a lot of our customers, we are a growing SME business and as such are currently or have previously experienced a number of the same issues. These are many and varied, as is working for yourself, but in this series of posts, we will look at 5…

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5 Things a small business should avoid – Part 4 Founder Dependency

By Simon Measures | July 6, 2021

In common with a lot of our customers, we are a growing SME business and as such, are currently or have previously experienced a number of the same issues. These are many and varied, as is working for yourself, but in this series of posts, we will look at 5…

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A short catch-up this week to give some good news for business

By Simon Measures | July 30, 2025

Despite the negative international news emerging from the markets recently, with warnings of slowdowns and major companies reducing their marketing spend in 2025, the online sales news for the UK is showing a more positive outlook. In figures reported in June 2025 online sales across the UK showed an increase of 2.3% in online spending,…

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 pressure on small business owners.…