Christmas is possibly the most important time for small businesses, it’s when the majority of the year’s hard work is done and when a large chunk of the year’s income is earned.
Planning now can make the difference between plain sailing and stormy seas so let’s have a quick look at the important things to do.
The date to start with is the last order date. Continue reading
Update your website with latest trends.
This year has seen many new trends in website design, the updates in CSS3, JavaScript and Jquery along with some innovative designers and coders have seen sites get more engaging for the user. The sites that make use of social media to encourage their users to spread the word about their fantastic new websites will no doubt have benefited from increased awareness and sales as a result. Continue reading
Believe it or not the first ever mobile phone call was made on April the 3rd 1973.
A senior engineer named Marty Cooper at Motorola called a colleague at a rival telecommunications firm and announced he was calling from a “real cellular telephone”
The DynaTAC 8000x was slightly bigger than today’s tech; it weighed 2.5 pounds, measured 10 inches long, and was soon nicknamed “the brick”, the battery lasted a mere 20 minutes and took 10 hours to charge. His Inspiration was star trek captain kirks flip up communicator.
This coming Monday 3rd December is expected to be the busiest day of the year for online retailers in the UK. The day which is nicknamed “Cyber Monday” is expected to generate 115 million visits to online retail stores (ecommerce websites) which is a 36% increase on last year.
It is estimated that £500m sales will be made on tablets and £330m sales will be made on smart phones, while £3.2bn of in-store sales will be influenced by smartphones. This is believed to be related to the huge increase of retailers using social media to promote their products and services.
Twitter is a very powerful tool for promoting your company and boosting your online corporate identity. There are however occasions where things go wrong…
There have been some quite major mistakes on the platform, which could have been easily avoided. When used properly, Twitter can not only promote your products or services but also build a connection between you and your customers.
This is a quick roundup of things we have been reading recently here in the office.
http://blog.typekit.com/2011/10/03/adobe-acquires-typekit/
Typekit is a site that allows you to use web fonts on your own website. We have used it ourselves on NextGenCel, Spindlewood Lodges, Wessex Audio Visual and Life Skills Direct and the acquisition by Adobe could bridge the gap in using web fonts offline for designing pages in PhotoShop or Fireworks as well as publishing fonts you choose yourself. Continue reading
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