We have been building websites since 2003 and there is one thing that never ceases to amaze me. What is it about the web that sometimes makes even the smart and astute glaze over and falter over simple, common sense stuff? Let us take ‘domains’ …
What is it about the web that makes people lose all common sense? Read More »
Before I go on to explain my experience with the ‘cloud’, let me first explain what prompted me to write this piece. The long string of frequent panic calls that we get from clients about trouble with their emails! It never ceases to amaze me …
A pretty daft question to ask at this point, right? Well, not exactly. If you were to quickly google for a definition of a website, you are most likely to hit upon something of the sort- ‘a website is a collection of related web pages, …
First things first, goodbye 2009, we are not going to miss you. What a year it has been. 2009 was difficult, challenging, testing and requiring one to run faster and faster just to stand still. Good, decent, upstanding and respectable clients went bust and some …
Ran in into Alan King, who we have blogged about before, and he was a bit full of gloom and doom. We all get a bit like this don’t we? Alan has many many contacts in Banking, Industry and Engineering…… as far as he can …
Paradiddles were our first customer, way back in 2003. The internet was humming, Ebay was a real opportunity for small business owners and things looked good. In 2007 and 2008 the wheels came off for retailers on the high street. Competition was intense and margins …
To start with Social Media you need to dip a toe in somewhere. Then you need to listen. Here is a blog article that came to me via linked in. Marketing in an Economic Downturn – Social Media to the Rescue All businesses understand the …
There is an old joke that talks about the creation of Europe. It goes something like this. 1. The French wanted a Europe to stop the Germans from constantly invading. 2. The Germans needed a Europe due to Panzers being out of fashion. 3. The …
Tell *Auntie to shut up! A year ago the BBC was full of the “R” word. Recession, gloom, doom and generally bad news were all the negative pointers going forward. If we had listened to the Beeb we should have packed our bags and we …
This was a quote presented by the Business Boffins to a small business planning session sponsored by Business Link. The event was great, well attended, well presented and gave us lots to think about. But after the event, writing the actual business plan was, shall …
My mother could have planned better than Napoleon! Read More »
