Aug 20, 2017 | How-to, Vee's blog, web tips |
Starting with nothing My previous post said you shouldn’t commission a website build or bother building one yourself if you’re on a tight budget and/or haven’t sold a single product or service yet. I often see new business owners get hung up that...
Jul 29, 2017 | How-to, motivational, Tips & Tricks |
What Bar Singers Can Teach us about Better Engagement We’ve been in our bolt hole in Portugal these past two weeks enjoying glorious sunny hot weather. We aim to come here 2-3 times a year to completely switch off and take a break and recharge our batteries. One of...
Jul 16, 2017 | web tips |
The myth a new business ‘must’ have a website This might seem like a surprising thing for a web designer to say that you don’t need a website. Surely I should be advocating that every business must have a website to be taken seriously? Well I do....
Jul 9, 2017 | e-newsletters, Social Media, Tips & Tricks |
How to write for the web Your authentic voice is not just about what you say in person. Your authentic voice has to be reflected in all your online activities – website, blogs, articles, tweets, Facebook posts, newsletters, emails…. everywhere online. This...
Apr 28, 2017 | How-to-videos |
Image, button or text link – which works best in email? Knowing an effective link type will help you get and measure more engagement from your email campaigns. It’s good practice to provide 3 different link types in your email campaigns to your content...
Apr 23, 2017 | How-to-videos |
Finding Search Terms How useful would it be to find search terms that people are trying to find the services and products you sell? My previous post showed you how to discover what your most popular posts and pages are. This video article is about how to find search...
Apr 10, 2017 | How-to-videos |
Would you like to know which is your most popular web page or post in your website? When you know which are your most visited blog posts you could decide to write more about the same topic or create a service around that topic. Here’s a quick video where I show...
Mar 26, 2017 | Vee's blog |
In my last post I shared with you why I quit my dress design business to help my dad full-time with his deal with the Americans to help them build faster jet planes for the US Army. If you missed it you can read it here. They had paid him a huge sum of money for his...
Mar 19, 2017 | Vee's blog |
Last time… I told you about my early childhood and how I was creative and resourceful. You can read that post here. Making clothes for my dolls led me to making my own clothes, led me to making ballroom dance dresses for my mum. Next I found myself making...
Feb 27, 2017 | Vee's blog |
Creative and Resourceful I haven’t always been a web designer. But I have always been creative and resourceful. When I was little I would create comics for my friends to read and I made clothes for my dolls from scraps of material from my mum’s sewing...
Feb 19, 2017 | web tips |
The First Few Seconds They say that when you meet someone for the first time they make a judgement about you based on the first few seconds of meeting you, whether you’ve opened your mouth to speak or not. The same applies to your website. That person makes a...
