I don’t do marketing .. I was told recently and I can’t help feeling this is foolish but then I am a marketer and I think it is essential for any business. Even if your business is doing nicely and ticking along, that may not always be the case. Then again you might be doing … Read more
Two of my customers, reasonably sized companies turnover in the millions, have no marketing plan, nor any kind of digital strategy that I have been able to unearth. Maybe it’s because they also don’t have a marketing manager, like a lot of businesses*? They do a bit of this with this company and so and … Read more
We’re in the run up to the Christmas shut-down and project planning has been done to the year end, so I have been reflecting on the work that has been completed or will be completed this year. Website basics When I first started in the business of website design, business owners would come to me … Read more
An awful lot of business owners, especially small business owners who are too busy to do it themselves, delegate ‘the website’ to the nearest employee. This can be a good thing or a bad thing and depends on the competence and interest level of the person involved. Early adopters A computer savvy youngster might not … Read more
A customer of mine learnt the hard way why cheap domains registration isn’t worth it and why disaster recovery plans are essential. The domain registrar who holds all of their domain names on their domain name servers went offline following a ddos attack, taking their website and email service with it. Hundreds of other business … Read more