Website Testing is Important to Your Marketing

Website Testing is Important to Your Marketing

What is Website Testing? Why should you test your website? Website testing is the process of analysing a website’s performance. It’s important to review your site’s content, design, and functionality. Website testing is an important step to take, as it can provide a lot of insights on your visitors. It’ll tell you more about who they are, what they want from your website and how they interact with it.Website testing

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Why Facebook Jail is going to become more commonplace for users in the future. And what you can do about it.

Why Facebook Jail is going to become more commonplace for users in the future. And what you can do about it.

So you’re in Facebook Jail, banned, restricted from liking, commenting and posting. I’ve been there recently and I’d like to relate my experience and what I’ve learned as a digital marketer. It’s correct to say that it’s becoming difficult to play virtual whack-a-mole with Facebook’s “Community standards”. There is a fine line between trampling freedom of speech and protecting the community from abuse. Unfortunately as a marketer one slip up

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How to work with your graphic designer.

How to work with your graphic designer.

How to work with your graphic designer. Or how I learned to stop worrying and let the creative weirdo do it. This was part of my speaking notes for my presentation on The Brandprint Summit held in August 2020. This blog is connected to this presentation here. So you installed Canva and are scrolling through tons and tons of templates, reds and blues, pretty stock imagery flying past, you find

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5 ways to help transition your business when they relax the Covid-19 lockdown

5 ways to help transition your business when they relax the Covid-19 lockdown

Transitioning your business in a post Covid-19 world. 5 ways you can do it. In this article I’m going to talk about how to make that transition from normal operations to operations in a post Covid 19 world. I read this article about gyms being a “thing of the past”. I don’t agree entirely with that broad statement, but things will change. One of the solutions offered is only allowing

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The Spicks & the Specs of Spec Work

The Spicks & the Specs of Spec Work

The spicks and the specOf the girls on my mindWhere is the sunThat shone on my headThe sun in my lifeIt is dead. . . Bee Gees – “The Spicks and the Specks” It is dead Spec work is the best way to destroy an industry. Many would argue that “Speculative work” is the best way to get the top tier work from creatives. I’m here to tell you that

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Say No To Spec Work

This is a reblog of an awesome article about nospec. On Monday 18th May, several people received this email from a marketing company: Some of those people, like me, had applied for this job two years (… Say No To Spec Work

How to get Paid Digitally

How to get Paid Digitally

The way to get paid digitally locally is best described as fragmented, but it’s not unnavigable. This is part two for my previous article on why now is a good idea to get an e-commerce site. You can read that here first. Note at the time of writing this article the Government created a “Post Covid 19 Reconstruction” committee. This committee’s mandate is to, amongst other things, help further along

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The Covid 19 Adventures

The Covid 19 Adventures

So for the last few weeks I’ve been live streaming myself just chatting about my experiences with living under lockdown. I try to do one once a week. Topics include: Driving during lockdown School and training during lockdown The workload I have suddenly got during lockdown Shooting the breeze during lockdown You can view the vids here.