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    Google issue new link warning

    We admin an industry specific, not spammy, directory and have had a few poorly written emails form companies operating for business' who added their sites asking for removal. I expect in a few months they will be resubmitting their sites. :rolleyes:
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    Where do you get your web design clients?

    Word of mouth from existing clients has always been our main source. Other than that it seems to be local searches on Google which bring in outside enquiries, though I must admit we've had less enquiries over the last six months coming in, presumably due to the economic climate.
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    Interspire vs magento for new shopping cart

    I suppose you have your answer but just to add we've set up a couple of interspire ecommerce sites in the past. While it can be a little 'buggy' and the support and communication has always been really rather poor the management and layout of the software, for both administrator and customer...
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    bt business hosting

    Yes, we have one client who uses BT for hosting. Always forget what a trial it is to navigate the admin.
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    design cost

    Well written post Baz, seems about right to me, though I might be biased I suppose. I do worry, for the client more than anything, when I see people offering the world on a website for £199. Either those people are underselling themselves and working well below minimum wage or else what...
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    Nice Weather = Less Traffic?

    Our office is located on a High Street and I would say this weeks good weather has doubled the footfall outside for the shops and retailers.
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    An interesting piece on the current failures of online advertising

    Food for thought on the future on online advertising; http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2012/05/23/after-facebook-fails/
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    Paypal Alternative

    Yes, I remember four or five years ago when people were reluctant to use any non integrated payment system and PayPal was view with suspicion by many customers and clients. Their acquisition by eBay and the effort the have put into making a very easy to use system has really benefited them...
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    Busiest times of the day for a High Street B&M Store

    We have our office on a small town High Street, busiest times in the week seem to be from 9am until around 3pm, after that the place is pretty deserted as most/all the shops close at 5.30 and some seem to wind down earlier. Fridays/Saturdays are much busyer and until slightly later. There...
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    Email Marketing

    We get dozens of these a day both to legitimate address' and to speculative ones. We've just done a poll in the office and not one person has ever made a purchase or employed a service from an unsolicited email. I wonder what, if any, the hake up is on unsolicited emails? Is it just an...
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    When looking for a cartoon logo design do you look for a logo designer or cartoonist?

    It really depends I suppose, the main project I was thinking of was more involved than just a logo as there were various other parts of the site that required some illustration but the majority of people working in logo design I've known have tended to be Graphic Design orientated and whist some...
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    The POWER Of Twitter

    Quite. The number of business I see who have been guided to either buy automated software to shoot out their latest updates or else are just posting links to their own website day in and day out and who are mostly broadcasting to a bunch of spam bots and other business' doing the just same. If...
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    Flyer advertising...no description

    How are you planning to distribute, at random or at a specific tech event? If it was done at random you'd be hoping that someone thinking of having a website, or looking for cheaper hosting, would be amongst the ones that happened to be curious enough to have a look. It does seem very much a...
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    When looking for a cartoon logo design do you look for a logo designer or cartoonist?

    It would depend on the project. If a serious logo was required then we'd hire a logo/graphic designer but we have had a couple of occasions when something more creative and hand drawn was required and we have found and hired illustrators in the past for those occasions.
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    Can I get rid of other videos on You Tube.......

    Depending on what your videos are you could always try using vimeo as an alternative, it does has less 'noise' and forced advertising.
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