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Steam Trains & Websites
Earlier this week Huw Rowlands sent me a great link to a BBC program on the stream trains of South Wales - it even had footage of the Pontypool area (my neck of the woods) which had huge engine sheds...
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What’s wrong with “we”?
My company Jojet has been running since 2001 which is a pretty good going but, really, that’s a slight cheat as the first couple of years I was a traditional web development contractor; you work 9-5 on...
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5 Ways Your Testimonials Sabotage Your Business
Got a great treat for you today, a cracking guest post from Ian Edwards about “testimonials”. Now I’m a great believer in ‘people buy from people’ / word of mouth and a cog in that machine is...
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BGW 4 – Blogging – a business primer
Blogging is a term we hear a lot about nowadays and I want to write about what it is and when it can be useful mean for you or your business. (This is part of my ongoing Business Guide to Websites...
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The Builder and the Content Buzz
Over the past couple of years I’ve become increasingly convinced that the old methods of marketing and selling (features/advantages/benefits, always-be-closing etc etc) are becoming much less relevant....
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Putting on a Web Conference in 115 days
Back in Jan I decided that there should be a web design conference in South Wales and last week (on the 25th of May) that’s exactly what happened here in Newport with an event called Port80. That’s 115...
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Twitter? Facebook? Linkedin? Which ones work?!
The other day someone asked me what was best for their business: what is Twitter? Or Facebook? Or Blogging? Should they be on Linkined? Which one “worked“? The problem is that these are the wrong...
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The Jojet Business Podcast
Very happy to announce the launch of something new today; The Jojet Business Podcast (first episode at bottom of this post). This will be an ongoing series of podcasts where I interview people...
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Promoting your app (& the subtlety of seeding)
A friend of my has recently launched a nifty Instagram printing service. This got me mulling some ideas about how such an app should be seeded; how should such a service be unleashed to a busy world...
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3 Reasons to Blog
I was at a lovely, local business networking event recently and we were all chatting around the table about various topics; I chirped up about WordPress & blogging as I was talking about my...
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Multiple websites (pros & cons)
My general recommendation to clients is to have a single, central website however there are obviously circumstances where it does make sense to have multiple websites; let’s look into that. With many...
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WordPress.com & nice call to action buttons
During the restructure of my business I’ve been using this blog as my main website (more details on the reasoning behind that here). I do like using WordPress.com (as opposed to self-hosting) as, on...
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