UKNetWeb Blog

OK, so you’ve accepted that a recession might just be on the way or have realised that preparing your business anyhow can’t do any harm – how can technology really help? (more…)

Already speculation is emerging that companies are switching from display advertising to more direct response forms of marketing. These forms of marketing focus on tangible return on investment (ROI) with measurable results to assess the value of each activity.

One major area to consider if you have a website, and let’s face it most of us do, is search engine optimisation (SEO). (more…)

Although everybody hears the terms ‘blog’, ‘blogging’ and ‘weblogs’ on a regular basis nowadays many businesses are yet to discover the potential of them. They are often mistaken to be the personal diaries of adolescents or someone’s ramblings about the weather; however, as a business tool they can be an effective way of communicating with customers or potential customers on a more personal or direct level. (more…)

Email marketing is nothing new but still many businesses prefer to spend large amounts of their budget every year on expensive print runs and mail outs.

Opting to send promotions and information to customers via email is a not only a very cost effective and measurable way of marketing it also helps protect the environment by saving paper and ink. (more…)

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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I just wanted to submit a quick post acknowledging Orange’s outstanding new ‘Unlimited’ site. For those of you who are yet to visit it check it out here.

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These last few days I have fallen a little bit quiet and I can put this down to 2 reasons. 1) I have been rather busy in my day to day work and 2) I couldn’t think of anything useful to say.

While I have sat around wondering what the next blog should be I have learnt a couple of things that I thought justified maybe just a quick intermission blog to show I hadn’t fallen off that amazing balcony into the sea. (see ‘about uknetweb’)

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Owning your own network online could never be simpler than through www.ning.com, a white label social networking site that enables individuals to create their own social networks at no cost.

Never one to miss an opportunity to test a new web application, I created a group for members of the network and referral organisation, the BNI, and joined a local business network created by friend, Alan Jones, for business people in the South West (UK).

So will sites such as Ning lead to the creation of ‘nethoods’, a trend prediction from Trend Watchers extraordinaire - Trendwatching.com, where smaller networks are likely to focus on small real life suburbs, villages or even streets as people search to merge life on and offline?

If you have your own social network why not include it in a comment on this blog? I have.
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Hi my name is Aren Grimshaw and I am the Project and Account Manager of Cornish based web development company, uknetweb.

My role within the company is to research emerging technologies, liaise with clients and potential clients, and manage some of the projects coming in.

I have started this blog to share some of our work with the world and help businesses locally or further afield tap into the many new tools emerging on the web. I will post as often as I can with links to great sites, information or tools for those interested in the internet, other emerging technologies or growing their business. (more…)