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Marketing Seminar Presentation

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Toby Parkins of UKNetWeb as well as Aren Grimshaw of Tonick Media and Rob Edlin of Niddocks Internet Marketing presented at the Friday 13th Marketing Seminar in Newquay. The event received a great response with over 100 people attending. We have made Toby’s powerpoint presentation public through Slideshare. (more…)

Social Media Taster Webinar Recording

Monday, August 31st, 2009

The Social Media for Business Taster Webinar on 27th August 2009 was well received with over 25 people viewing from 4 different countries. We have captured a video and audio recording of the main content of the presentation which can be viewed below.

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Social Media for Business Taster Course Presentation

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

A copy of yesterday’s ‘Social Media for Business – Social Media Taster Course‘ Powerpoint Presentations are shown below.

For all those who could not get a place on the first course, please get in touch, as we are hoping to run another event on Thursday May 7th. (more…)

Engage with your customers if you want to prosper

Monday, December 1st, 2008

If you want to prosper in business during these tougher economic times then now is the time to start engaging your customers.

Customer engagement is all about engaging your customers with your company or brand and it can lead to increased order values, customer loyalty and word of mouth recommendation. (more…)

Shrinking Growth will sort the Good Developers from the Bad

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Ensuring you choose the right web developer to maintain or build your ecommerce website has never been more important than it is now.

With countries around the world falling into technical recessions and consumers struggling to obtain credit, ecommerce website owners need to be clever with their websites to ensure continuing growth. (more…)

VAT Change: Important Information for Website Owners

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

As you will have heard in yesterday’s pre-budget report, VAT will be reduced from the present rate of 17.5% to 15%, from Monday 1st December until the end of next year.

In making this move there will be many website owners, particularly those with ecommerce websites, who may need to have changes made to their website to bring the new VAT rate into action. (more…)

Convert Interest into Business with Goals and Funnels

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

You’ve spent all that time and effort promoting your business online and offline. You’re strategy is spot on and your product or service is great; however, for some reason your site is not converting interest into the levels of business you expected. (more…)

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life…

Friday, November 21st, 2008

The last few weeks has seen a barrage of negative stories dominating the news channels around the globe.

No one can argue that the outlook is a little bleak in some quarters; however, as we hope to show you, there are still some positive rays of hope out there getting lost amongst all the talk of economic downturn and recession. (more…)

It’s not how big it is – It’s what you do with it that counts

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Making money online is not about having the biggest site out there but giving your potential customers the very best online experience they can get.

The task of building the perfect website is an ongoing one. Continuous monitoring, tweaking and updating is the only way to ensure your site is the very best it can be.

Here are ten tips to improve your website…

1. Understand the customer – sounds simple but so many people get it wrong.

Get all your great products together with a clearly defined and communicated brand message and you’re on to a winner!

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web cart abandonment – why it happens and what you can do about it

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Although web cart abandonment rates are falling year on year, businesses looking to maximise their profits online still need to work hard to ensure that their customers aren’t put off making that all important purchase. In this article, Toby Parkins, Managing Director of web development company, ukneweb, outlines some ways e-commerce owners can reduce cart abandonment and drive increased sales on the web.

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