The new Grandstand Group website

Simon JonesCompany News

According to the dictionary, a grandstand is a stand that “commands the best view for spectators at racecourses or sports grounds”. When the Grandstand Group asked us to redesign their group website, it certainly wasn’t giving their spectators the best view of their business. Following meetings with the team at …

Miromedia raising money for Bladder & Bowel Foundation

Simon JonesCompany News

There’s nothing quite like the feeling when you help contribute to a good cause. We’ve been working closely with the Bladder & Bowel Foundation for a number of years hosting – and later redesigning – their website which attracts over 1.4 million visits per year. We’ve also helped on projects …

How reliable is your hosting?

Ian HancockStuff

There was alarming news for many website owners yesterday when 123-Reg confirmed that they had “effectively deleted” a number of the 1.7 million websites they host for their customers. Hosting is an essential part of having a website. A web server – essentially a big computer – holds all the …

Does your email marketing work?

Simon JonesEmail Marketing

If you open your inbox now I bet it’s full of emails from companies trying to get you to buy things. I bet you don’t even have to go and open your inbox to tell me that it is. There’s probably even more since you last checked it. Google have even …

Is Apple Pay coming to mobile websites?

Simon JonesEcommerce

According to Re/code, “Apple has been telling potential partners that its payment service, which lets shoppers complete a purchase on mobile apps with their fingerprint rather than by entering credit card details, is expanding to websites later this year”. Up to now, Apple Pay has only appeared at electronic point …

Think Outside the Box

Simon JonesCompany News

It’s hard trying to communicate what we do to people. We’re not an SEO agency or a web design agency. We take it a step further and focus on the results our clients get from our work. We’re experts at lots of things – email marketing, search engine optimisation, copywriting, …

Brand Experience – “It’s all about ME!”

Ian HancockStuff

In an age of ever more competitive marketplaces and omnichannel marketing  it’s ever harder to get in front of people.  So what does it mean for the smaller business and how can it work to your advantage – more to the point, why should you care? When 74% of consumers identify word-of-mouth …

Why your business should use Facebook ads

Simon JonesFacebook News, Stuff

In the final quarter of 2015, Facebook’s quarterly earnings surpassed $5bn for first time thanks to ad sales. And when I say thanks to ad sales, I mean pretty much all thanks to ad sales. In fact, 80% of that revenue was from mobile ad sales alone. That’s not quite …