New Site for Tradesman

We came across a new site today to help tradesmen find jobs and discuss the current state of the industry. What National Trademens Says… NationalTradesmen.co.uk is designed for tradesmen working within the construction Industry, our aim is to match tradesmen with employers. Employers post jobs specific to your trade and area, so you can apply [...]

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Companies must have a website by law?

I heard a rumour the other day from a sales guy from Yahoo. He told me that, he had heard, the uk government was considering plan to make it compulsary for uk companies to have a website. Anyone else heard anything about this? Please comment…

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Optimise your Meta Descriptions

A Meta Description is something that every web page should have. You can see the Meta Description of any page by viewing the source code. In the top browser menu click on ‘view’ then select either ‘view souce’ or ‘view page source’ depending whether you are using Internet Explorer or Firefox. This will bring up [...]

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How to find a web designer

Finding a web designer requires quite bit of though and research. Don’t just pick up the Yellow Pages and call the first first one you come across. First thing you should do is talk to like minded people, friends or business contacts about their experiences with web design companies. Once you have gathered a few [...]

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The best hosted, on demand CRM applications

Hosted, on-demand or web based CRM service provides a simpler, faster and cost-effective software for customer relationship management for businesses. Here are some of the best… Sales Force Basic usage starts at £17/user/month with a 14 day free trial. Infusionsoft Basic usage starts at $199/Month with a 15 free trial. Includes CRM, Email Marketing and [...]

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Mailchimp and wordpress

The online email marketing tool Mailchimp has just got even better. It now integrates with WordPress, Twitter and Salesforce so you can now easily build you mailing lists automatically. MailChimp allows user to build mailing lists, design email campaigns, send and analyse the results from on online console. OK so there lots of products that [...]

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SaaS Software as a service

The way businesses are using business critical software seems to be changing rapidly. The trend see them moving more and more towards Software as a service (SaaS) applications. What is basically means is that instead of buying a software license outright it is licensed on a demand basis usually online. The most common SaaS applications [...]

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Calls to action

What do you want a visitor to your website to do? This is the called the ‘most wanted response’ (MWR). We see it all the time on ecommerce sites, with ‘buy now’ and ‘add to basket’ everywhere your look. On brochure/service based sites, however, calls to action are often over looked. This may not be [...]

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SEO and title tags

One of the most important things you can do to make your website more visible on the web is make use of the title tag! For any web professionals reading this they know what I mean by title tags, but for those of you who don’t I’m referring to part of the code in a [...]

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