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‘Business strategy’ archive
Big mistake
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Posted in Business strategy on the 15-06-2009 | 32 Comments
Every web design agency screws up from time to time? We’ll tell you our screw ups, if you tell us yours!
5 common ecommerce mistakes
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Posted in Business strategy on the 20-04-2009 | 18 Comments
In the first of a series of guest posts James Greenwood shares some common ecommerce mistakes.
When to outsource web work
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Posted in Business strategy on the 09-04-2009 | 12 Comments
Your in charge of your organisations website. It has become moderately successful and now you have a decision. Do you hire a full time web designer or outsource to a web design agency?
Driving traffic vs. making the conversion
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Posted in Business strategy on the 27-02-2009 | 14 Comments
Marketeers are obsessed with driving traffic to their sites. Web designers are interested only in nurturing those users until they complete a call to action. Who is right?
10 ways to Battle Site Bureaucracy
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Posted in Business strategy on the 17-02-2009 | 8 Comments
Running a large institutional website is frustrating. Your site is often held back by internal politics and bureaucracy. Let me show you 10 ways to cut through the crap and get results.
Increase your website ROI
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Posted in Business strategy on the 12-02-2009 | 8 Comments
Are you a website owner? Do you use a web designer to build your site? Would you like to save money and increase the number of people who can access your site? Let me tell you how.
10 harsh truths about corporate websites
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Posted in Business strategy on the 11-02-2009 | 43 Comments
We all make mistakes running our websites. However the nature of those mistakes varies depending on the size of your website. As your site and organisation grow, the mistakes begin to change. This post addresses common mistakes in larger organisations.
5 options when website budgets get slashed
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Posted in Business strategy on the 30-01-2009 | 10 Comments
Your site is in desperate need of a redesign, content is out of date and the technology is archaic. Unfortunately times are tight and your budget has been cut. What do you do?
A partnership of cooperation
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Posted in Business strategy on the 07-11-2008 | 6 Comments
At this years FoWD I shared how the relationship between web design agency and client is fundamentally broken. Where there should be mutual respect and cooperation, there is negativity and mistrust.
Don’t panic!
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Posted in Business strategy on the 16-10-2008 | 4 Comments
According to Jason Calcanis and Michael Arrington the tech sector is in economic free fall. But, is the doom and gloom justified?
takeITon video
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Posted in Business strategy on the 13-10-2008 | 3 Comments
I recently teamed up with takeITon to produce a series of videos for small business owners on how to get the most from their websites.
Overcoming stagnation
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Posted in Business strategy on the 19-09-2008 | 3 Comments
For many websites the days of rapid growth have passed and they have slipped into stagnation. How then can you re-energise a site and start it growing again?
Quality or quickly?
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Posted in Business strategy on the 15-09-2008 | 6 Comments
What is more important, to reach market quickly or to launch with a quality product?
To Version Control or Not?
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Posted in Business strategy, Technology on the 18-08-2008 | 23 Comments
Version control can seem like a very daunting thing to incorporate into your work flow, but once it’s there you can be left wondering how you ever lived without it. Paul Stanton gives his thoughts and experiences on the subject.
The plight of the in-house designer
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Posted in Business strategy on the 19-06-2008 | 11 Comments
The more organisations I work with the more sympathy I have for in-house designers and developers. It is a role that can be thankless and isolating. How then can their lives be made that much easier?
Building for the future
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Posted in Business strategy on the 31-05-2008 | 6 Comments
Does building with web standards really provide a firm foundation for the future or will websites be forever stuck in a cycle of sporadic redesign?
Hiring new staff
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Posted in Business strategy on the 26-02-2008 | Comments Off
Marcus’ shares his advice on finding new staff
Worthy of your attention in 2008
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Posted in Business strategy on the 10-01-2008 | 13 Comments
As web designers we are all busy people. We are in such a fast moving sector that it can be hard to know what is worthy of our attention. Should we be focusing on Silverlight or brushing up on Javascript? Learning Rails or grappling with mobile devices? In this post I want to share my thoughts of where you should be focusing your energies in 2008.
Bubble 2.0.
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Posted in Business strategy on the 20-12-2007 | 6 Comments
Just in case you need convincing of our upcoming doom…
Keeping your skills sharp
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Posted in Business strategy on the 09-11-2007 | 6 Comments
I recently received a question from Harry asking “what approach do you take to training?”. He has some budget set aside and is wondering how he should spend it.