Business website design best practice Whatever the size of your business, the layout and design of your business website is a crucial first impression. If your website is poorly designed it will affect your online credibility. Frankly, a cheap website will make you look…well… cheap so it is worth investing some decent money in professional [...]

For many small business owners, a website is often one of the most important aspects of any marketing strategy – a crucial first impression which determines whether people hire you for your services or buy your products. Considering this, it’s vital to have a website that delivers tangible results and turns visitors into paying customers. [...]

If you want to boost your online credibility, avoid airing your dirty linen on social networks and public forums When I first began my career as an independent web designer, business coach and mentor Mike Knudsen offered me a brilliant piece of advice which I have followed ever since, it’s a simple unwritten rule; never [...]

Advantages of Video Content Why Video? The internet has become an important part of most our lives- millions of people log in every second of every day for leisure and business. And with all of the choices out there, we tend to gravitate towards the sites that offer us the most directly relevant, content rich [...]

Build your own Website! Easily Create Your Own Website with WordPress Starting on the 23rd May 2012, we will be holding a series of WordPress workshops in Bakewell and Chapel-en-le-Frith that will give you the confidence to easily create and manage your own website and blog using the WordPress platform – without having to learn [...]

An interesting article written by qualified accountant Dianne Payne, updating a blog post from last year which talked about HMRC Business Records Checks, a scheme for checking the record keeping of randomly selected businesses. HMRC were aiming to visit 20,000 businesses. HMRC Business Records Checks – An Update I am amazed to report that HMRC [...]

Do you know what makes your business different from all the rest of the competition out there? Developing a Unique Selling Proposition is a fundamental part of having a successful business. Without a USP the only option for a small business is to compete on price and in any economic climate that is a difficult [...]

Practical business advice from Simon Fussell on how to thrive in these difficult economical times. If you listen to the news on the radio and television, then its difficult to remain positive about the economy and the prospects for business over the next 12 months. But a recession is a time of opportunity, and if [...]