When Sarah Gray called me to say that Socially Shared were going to be doing a series of video interviews I was not keen. It’s just not my favourite thing looking at pictures of myself, particularly moving ones. Now I..
It was my pleasure to present “Websites that Work” to SWIBTribe in Dorchester yesterday. I have done many presentations over the years, particularly when I was in corporate life and have never really enjoyed them, nerves tended to take over…
I was recently asked to present at the Just About Digital development day being run by Socially Shared networking. My subject was online visibility and I talked about ways to raise your online profile and to direct traffic to your..
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What a fabulous day we all had at the Socially Shared women in business conference 2018. Great speakers, lots of interesting things to learn and great company. I have been a member of Socially Shared for nearly a year now..
Being passionate about your chosen career is a must when you run your own business. You live, breathe, and eat with it morning, noon, and night. However, as with any business, there’s always a sole trader or a team (large..
I cannot believe it happened and it was a bit of a shocker to see my very carefully crafted content appearing word for word, page for page on somebody else’s website. My home page text was there, then my main..
If you’ve ever been driving down the road and decided to take the longer, scenic route instead of the shorter and more obvious way home, you will be able to appreciate the magic of online images. Images are very much..
A landing page is a web page which serves as the entry point for a website or a particular section of a website. A website conversion means that your visitor has done what you wanted them to do. They might..
So you’ve employed a great WordPress designer to come up with a site for you, and once they’ve finished their job, it’s up to you to keep it updated with fresh and interesting content. Sometimes, though, you just can’t think..
Stock photos are very much part of the ‘furniture’ of web design and online content production, and are widely used to market a vast range of products and services. However, it can also be very easy to select unsuitable stock..
There are many things to consider when starting out and building your brand. You want to stand out and above all become trusted by a loyal customer base. The basics for creating your brand… Why? This has to be the..
SEO in a nutshell is a brief overview of SEO for beginners. A simple definition of search engine optimisation: it is a technical and creative process to improve the visibility of a website in search engines, with the aim of..
I have been looking back over my personal blog at some of my old blog posts. I am going back a few years. Some were quite comical and actually not too badly written. Where has that happy and witty blogging..
SEO for WordPress makes it easy for you to manage your website. SEO or Search Engine Optimisation is the art optimising your website to ensure it is found and ranked by Google and other major search engines. Getting the Foundation..
Following on from my recent post – Making your website, the central hub for social media marketing – where I outlined some of the tools available to enhance your performance and link backs on social media. I thought I would..
Being a web designer today involves delivering a full internet marketing solution and that includes social media. Social media and search engine optimisation go very much hand in hand and businesses are using social media to create interest around their..
A good website design absolutely stands on its images, they attract us and keep us interested. In a magazine article most of us will scan the images before we get to the text and if the pics don’t get us..
A website is all about keeping the visitor interested enough to take the desired action. That could be anything from making a call to signing up to a newsletter. The key to this is actually quite simple. So I will..
These days a Social Media Strategy is vital It starts with your website. Most businesses are turning to blogging to create good quality, live content. Writing articles about your business and your knowledge will build credibility and help you to..