What’s in a website plan and what to include
This article outlines what’s in a website plan & some tips about what to include in a website plan which helps your or the web designer create your website
How to Build a WordPress Website
I recently ran a free online training for the VACT Community on how to build a WordPress website for under £20. I shared the 8 steps you need to build a website and a heap of strategies that I use when building websites for myself and clients. This is a long post so...
How to promote your new business without a website
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...
How To Get Better Engagement
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...
How to make blogging easy in 5 simple steps
5 Steps to blogging This article is about how to make blogging easy. I break the blogging process down to 5 easy steps. Blogging is good for your business. It adds to your credibility. It helps your SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) to be found in google. It’s...
How to do SEO
The 3 most important things you need to know This article is about how to do SEO, what it is, why you need it and the 3 most important things you need to know about SEO. SEO is a topic I’m often asked about. It’s a topic that is often surrounded by mystery and...
5 Website Copywriting Tips
Copywriting tips Copywriting is often a block for my web building clients. Sometimes, you’re just too close to what you do to know what to write. So I asked my copywriting friend Sarah Norris if she would share some tips. So here are Sarah’s 5 website...
How to Increase Open Rates in Email Marketing Campaigns
Recently I’ve blogged a lot about email campaign open rates and what the stats mean, but do you know how to improve them? I’ve been seeing and experimenting with a few of techniques to increase open rates that seem to be working REALLY well, so I thought...