Recent content by Jason Mageehan

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    Importance of Design to Website Success

    I'd like to know more about peoples thoughts on this. In the offline world, things like colour psychology, alignment, instruction as well as touch and feel all come into play...i'd love to know more about the online equivalent.
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    Shop front design, font, colour, ideas etc

    Hello - I would recommend that you get two things - a professional designer and a good signage company - the designer should be able to help you mockup the design and work with your signage contractor to give them the files to make your vision a reality. This is what I did with a local bridal...
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    hi everyone, I'm new here and looking for corporation

    triple ouch - how many were bots?
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    hi everyone, I'm new here and looking for corporation

    You say you have 6 years experience in internet marketing. GTMetrix says you ain't.
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    Hi, thinking of doing leaflet distribution

    Hello all - interesting post for me, as you'll see from my email address in my signature, I own a company that deals in flyers - now I souly deal on the design and print side. I have a background in advertising and about 8 years ago, I thought I'd marry design and print together in a better way...
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    Domestic cold calling

    I have a problem with door to door chuggers. I did the maths with one of them, and worked out that with my £2 per month donation it would take about 18 months for the 'charity' to start getting any benefit from my money, I'd just be paying his commission and for the company he works for - and...
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    Pointless signwriting on vehicles

    my favourite sign written van was one I saw in Ilford - on the back it said: "Patel & Patel Plumbers Ltd You've tried the cowboys, now try the Indians" That tickled me. Worse one was a van labelled ISIS - which has probably been a company name for 20 years, but, I made sure I zoomed passed it...
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    looking for advertising advice

    There you go Ian, you have a plan.
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    looking for advertising advice

    Exactly, which is why I think most people struggle with their first business.....knowing what I know now it has been easy to set up subsequent businesses in different industries.
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    looking for advertising advice

    Hmm, that's what the books say....most people in business that I interact with say that the first few years is a struggle.
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    looking for advertising advice

    There are plenty of chancers out there. There must be some people making it work though, else the site would die.
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    looking for advertising advice

    @threenine - I suppose maybe you are right - I've had good success as a customer, but I'm notorious for my precise briefs and picky nature. I suppose there must be a lot of numpties out there using the services. Isn't every business hard to start at the beginning though? I don't see it as any...
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    looking for advertising advice

    @threenine and @Alan - while there is a hectic rush for the bottom end...there is in every day things too ... just because something is cheap doesn't mean that I'm going to go with it. I drive a BMW not a Dacia - those sites are a marketplace for people and I've had great success meeting...
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    Dedicated Hosting with Expertise

    Sounds like perhaps AWS could be your answer, it's easily scale-able , but I'd suggest that you find a suitable freelance sysadmin that you can use to keep your system in place - and start learning about it so that eventually you can do simple tasks yourself.
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    looking for advertising advice

    Hi Ian. Personally, and no offence here, I don't find it credible in any way. The copy is written poorly, your portfolio has awful stretched text and iStock watermarks on the web sites, it says nothing about the results that you get for your clients. Sorry, but it just looks like a $30...