Why your business needs WordPress

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There are lots of different options if you want to create a website for your business. However, WordPress is the most popular web publishing software because it’s easy to use, it’s very SEO friendly and most importantly it looks professional. Many people see WordPress as a blogging platform when really it’s often used to build…

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How to make a Facebook page stand out

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As of January 2011, Facebook has more than 500 million active users and that figure grows everyday. Therefore, it’s more important than ever for brands and organisations to have a strong presence on a dedicated Facebook page. However, with more companies realising this potential and setting up their own pages, it’s also important that yours…

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ISBA launches social media guide for online advertisers

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This week the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) launched a Social Media Guide that will offer advice about how to make the most of social media and leverage it into current online activity. The guide will certainly be useful for brands, organisations and individuals alike that understand the benefits of social media but are unsure…

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Recro Debt Management

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This week, our Web Design and Consultancy skills were called into action when we got a call from Recro Debt Management in Bushey.  With the motto that there is “life after debt”, their client-facing financial service is exactly the sort of business that we love to support. Recro’s key selling points are that they offer…

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Introducing HTML5 and what it means for you

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HTML is short for Hyper Text Markup Language and it’s the language developers use to construct web pages. HTML allows us to create structured documents by using many different tags that code and format all kinds of files, like text, sound and graphics. HTML5 is the next major revision to the way HTML works and…

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Top tools for blogger outreach and online PR

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Whether you want to outreach your products and services to particular bloggers, or just want to see who’s out there talking about you, it’s important you know how to look for blogs and then how to judge if they’re relevant. There are countless ways of finding blogs, whether it be through someone’s Twitter page, forums…

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The rise of social commerce

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Social commerce is basically the use of social networks like Facebook and YouTube to talk about and ultimately sell products. It can include many different things, such as customer ratings and reviews, referrals and social shopping tools. The term has been used for several years within the online industries but only in the past year…

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Facebook pages to become more social

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Last week, Facebook announced a number of changes to the design and functionality of Facebook pages. Although not all of these updates will be available until the beginning of March, it’s important that brands and organisations are aware of the changes and how they will affect the way they use Facebook and interact with users. After…

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