Recent content by Sean Lee-Amies

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    Scaling the Tech Team

    Post seems genuine enough. Can't new people post without all the established members jumping on and dissecting every character of the original post and possible motivation or ulterior motive? It must be pretty intimidating for new guys and I see it happen a lot on this forum. It also completely...
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    Scaling the Tech Team

    My interpretation (rightly or wrongly) is that they are looking for a team, not a single developer. Access to a pool of talent, rather than having to keep finding, vetting, onboarding, taking full employer responsibility etc for new employees when they just need someone to help them 'get the job...
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    Scaling the Tech Team

    Absolutely, there is a way to bring on skilled devs quickly, who will actually integrate rather than sit on the outside waiting for instructions that they'll sort of get right but not really. What you likely need is a fractional tech team - one of our clients happens to be one such team. The...
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    Handyman Business site review and Seo key words help

    Are you asking this because you generally want to know or are we just going to waste each other's time going round in circles forever? Genuine question. Yeah, I mean, branding is a trillion dollar industry but I guess clearly it's just not important because you don't know the name of your...
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    Handyman Business site review and Seo key words help

    That's exactly my point really. I have nothing against page builders per say, everything has its pros and cons, but for many companies the cons outweigh the pros when their marketing needs grow beyond simply proving they're a real business and giving basic info about their products/services.
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    Handyman Business site review and Seo key words help

    Yeah, I was expecting some kind of opinion like this. Brand may not be important for you or the businesses you serve but it's becoming increasingly so for many. To claim that brand is not important for any small UK businesses just isn't accurate. It's possible we're just using different words to...
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    Which back end for our website?

    What I'm getting from this is that beyond anecdotal evidence there isn't a lot to back up many of these claims. I'm not saying WordPress is perfect, or the best platform out there, but the way some of you speak about it is like simply installing it onto a server is enough to give it aids...
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    Handyman Business site review and Seo key words help

    @Shopclicks It means that in 2024, marketing for many companies is a multi-faceted, sophisticated endeavour the requires a brand's website to meet certain requirements around flexibility, adaptability and integration that is not possible with no/low code website builders. The launch of GenAI...
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    Handyman Business site review and Seo key words help

    We had a company reach out to us through a keyword we rank highly for, relating to web design, and their situation was baffling. They had a no-code WordPress website (Elementor; 0 development skill, very cheap) developed by another agency. To be fair the site wasn't bad looking at all but the...
  10. Sean Lee-Amies

    Accountant Doubling Fees

    They liaised with our bookkeeper, they did the end of year accounts. I asked for more input on tax efficiency but - without any form of interaction with myself - they were confident that everything was as tax efficient as it could possibly be. I wasn't involved in any form of "strategy"...
  11. Sean Lee-Amies

    Accountant Doubling Fees

    Thanks all, I appreciate the input.
  12. Sean Lee-Amies

    Accountant Doubling Fees

    I told them about our bookkeeper early on and asked if we could pay them to spend a bit of time monitoring what they were doing to make sure everything was being done properly. They said that's not a service they offer and that was pretty much the end of the conversation. They never gave me...
  13. Sean Lee-Amies

    Accountant Doubling Fees

    Situation: Been with an accountant for a long time, they were doing payroll and accounts/corp tax. We had an in-house bookkeeper who wasn't great and often the accountant would have to sort out some messes. They never once complained about this. I would have used their bookkeeping services but...
  14. Sean Lee-Amies

    Which back end for our website?

    I don't feel like you're really taking on board anything I'm saying; we're starting to go round in circles now so I'll make this my last post on the matter. I do understand how to work with code because I wrote HTML, CSS, PHP and a little JavaScript for many years. As I explained, I don't do...
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    Which back end for our website?

    I'm not a developer. I used to code, I learned a bit of OOP and then delegated coding to my team a long time ago; but none of this is really relevant to your original oversimplified and inaccurate point that: "WordPress really is a pretty awful platform, it's very slow, it's not coded well...
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