Recent content by Nick@Daydot

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    Charging for online subscriptions

    Are you targeting consumers or businesses? The process can differ. If you're getting someone to build it you should find someone with experience of building subscription sites who knows what works and what doesn't. A lot of testing and research has been done in this area and you don't want to...
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    Contacting customers who don't open their emails?

    One thing I haven't seen suggested which you may have done, is to work on the subject line and 'from' that shows up. In gmail for example I get emails from 'customer service'.... which could be anyone. And then as a limited number of characters are displayed, if the start of the subject line is...
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    company website review - software/holdings company

    I've no idea what a 'humble' website would be. Personally I'd like my website to be effective at winning business, and I don't think yours is. I agree with the comments about the colours, I do get odd jumping behaviour on mobile, users do consciously and unconsciously associate the quality of a...
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    Equestrian Website Review Please

    The testimonials are in italics which are hard to read for some. The buttons text is low contrast against the background and every word is capitalised, which is harder to scan. The fundamental problem is that the user has to do the work to figure out what this is all about and who it's for...
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    Equestrian Website Review Please

    I get two cookie popups. The section (and the site) isn't accessible. Text over the main image has line breaks in the middle of words on mobile If the target audience knows what 'Alternative provision' is then partly fine, I wouldn't be sure, and assume that users who are just there for the...
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    E-commerce website categories

    Look at what the major retailers do - they've done the research. Pay attention to the navigation, search, filtering and sorting. There's research you can pay for here https://baymard.com/research/apparel-and-accessories
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    Wix vs Wordpress for new small online shop

    !00%. I see time and again people asking what site builder to use, what theme to use, all in the uneducated (not their fault) expectation that all they need to do to create an effective site is choose the right template. So many build a site, spend a ton on marketing, and then wonder why they...
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    UK People Finder Startup – Seeking Feedback and Advice

    Years ago you could get a service - I think it was called 191 - first on disk and then online that contained a lot of information about people. Anyone could buy it. Then data protection came in. You used to be able to view the electoral roll online, now you can't - but I think you can at a...
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    AI-Based Business

    I think there's a good chance that whatever your idea is that someone is already working on it. If seen a lot of chat about chatbots and, given how crap many of them are, AI if done well could be an obvious way of doing them better. The normal way that a successful business would be set up...
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    Online store standard terms and conditions

    It also sounds like you might want to talk to a patent lawyer if you think you have something unique but worried about copying. Also consider launching in the UK first and build from there rather than deal with international complexities from day one. Iron out the wrinkles first (it's not a...
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    Validating a Business Idea

    If you have access to the target audience in person, do some sketches, sit down with them, and get feedback. Explain as little as possible to see what they spontaneously say, and go from there. You could do similar in forums. If you don't want to expose design ideas at least get feedback on the...
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    Starting raffle competition website

    That's a bit strong - maybe some do, I don't think they all do. There's a 'guitar giveaway' competition that I used to take part in until I realised that I could have ultimately bought the guitars for less money, but that's how it works. They publish the names of the winners and ask for photos...
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    Podcast help

    One obvious answer is to ask your listeners what they like/don't like. Make it a standard part of every podcast to ask for feedback, say that you won't be offended so long as it's genuine and polite. Let people know how to feed back.
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    project management, team collaboration

    A while back I was looking for gantt charts and liked the look of ClickUp https://clickup.com/ (it has more than just gantt charts) although we ended up staying with Teamwork, which I wouldn't particularly recommend. You could look at Miro as well https://miro.com/
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    Old electricals

    There's actually somone who advertises in our local FB group (Slough) that they come and take away old fridges and freezers for free.
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