Ideas for your Site

Ideas and inspiration for your website, including promotional ideas, social media widgets, gadgets and thingamibobs. Ways and means for bringing and maintaining more traffic on your site, making it more interesting for visitors and ultimately achieving more success online.

VAT rise in January 2011

13th December 2010 03:00 by lisa

Yep, it's happening again - the VAT rate is changing. So let us know if you need a hand updating your site for it.

Whether you have an online shop, a subscription based service, an online booking system or just the odd "buy now" Paypal button, get in touch if… Read more
Halloween campaign for AQuarterOf.co.uk

18th October 2010 03:00 by lisa

Case Study: marketing with the seasons.

We do the affiliate management for AQuarterOf.co.uk - the UK's favourite online retro sweet shop - and as you can imagine, Halloween is a busy time!

The Halloween banners were rolled out a month ago, and we've been working with various affiliates on… Read more
Cost Effective SEO & Link Management

27th September 2010 03:00 by tom

SEO can be extremely time-consuming and expensive. To get results in anything but the least competitive market these days you need to invest a considerable amount of time and effort, over an extended period.

Many website owners don't have the time or inclination to get links from other websites,… Read more
Clever email marketing idea from my-wardrobe

26th August 2010 03:00 by lisa

I received a newsletter last night that I thought was quite a clever idea, from my-wardrobe.com.

With the bank holiday approaching, they asked several high profile editors what they'd be wearing over the long weekend. Bang on subject for their target market - trend setters discussing styles, with tips and… Read more
How to put Facebook on your Site

23rd August 2010 03:00 by tom

It's now easier than ever to share your website's content on Facebook, which could prove to be an excellent way of getting more visitor interaction on your site.

Facebook has released a whole set of social plugins that let you do some really cool stuff, in many cases just by… Read more
How to Automatically Create a Newsletter

17th August 2010 03:00 by tom

Everyone knows that newsletters are a great and cost effective way of keeping in touch with your customers, letting them know what you've been up to and reminding them of the services you offer. But finding time to create an attractive and interesting newsletter can be a real challenge, especially… Read more
What To Do When You Launch: Before, During, and After

28th July 2010 03:00 by tom

When setting up a new web venue for the first time you could be easily forgiven for thinking that building your website would be your biggest hurdle, but it's really not.

I was just browsing our industry news when a post on ReadWriteWeb popped up and really rang true for… Read more
Use social media imaginatively for your business

21st May 2010 03:00 by lisa

Facebook isn't for every business. And for those that it suits, just creating a Fan Page isn't enough to bring social media success. You've got to think about your audience and what they want...

One of the most imaginative (but at the same time a little nauseating!) uses of social… Read more
How to embed a Google Map onto your website

8th April 2010 03:00 by lisa

If you'd like to display a Google Map on your website, then it's very easy to do thanks to Google's embed code. Just follow these simple instructions.

(If you'd rather your website could get the maps from Google itself directly, then ask us about setting up the Google Maps API… Read more
RSS making machine!

3rd November 2009 03:00 by lisa

I'm loving rssa.at at the moment! We're kitting all our clients out with free RSS feeds, which can then be fed into Twitter or a Facebook Fan Page. For muchbetteradventures.com it's great, because I've been able to make them feeds for all the different areas of their site in just… Read more