Year: 2014

Our 5 tips for a successful and social Small Business Saturday

Chris O'Brien December 04, 2014 0 Comments
It’s not just retailers that can take advantage of Small Business Saturday, whether you're a service business or a self-employed consultant you can get a boost from Small Business Saturday by getting in front of as many people as possible so make sure your Small Business Saturday is a social one!  Make sure you take full advantage of social media on the day – tweet using...
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Porthcurno, key role in global communications

Chris Grant (he/him) November 24, 2014 0 Comments
Way before the Internet, smartphones, and social media a global communications revolution was taking shape in a tiny coastal village in Southwest Cornwall. The invention of the electric telegraph in 1837 has ushered in a roller-coaster of innovation that has shaped the world we live and work in today. The first telegraph cable) was landed in Porthcurno in 1870 and stretched nearly 5,000 miles to...
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Securing your website with an SSL certificate

Chris O'Brien November 02, 2014 0 Comments
Google has been saying for a while now that having an SSL Certificate for your website will help it rank better within organic search results.  While it won’t give you a huge advantage over your non-secure competitors there is always the possibility that, in the future, Google will give secured website a larger boost on search results pages as more sites adopt HTTPS.  Google has become a...
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Google has updated it’s Webmaster Guidelines

Chris O'Brien October 28, 2014 0 Comments
On Monday 27th October Google published revised guidelines to ask for site owners to modify their robots.txt configuration to allow Google to access additional files that are used to display your website to visitors (these are called CSS and Javascript files) and previously weren't needed for Google to correctly index your website.  Google's new advice is: For optimal rendering and indexing,...
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Are you making the most of your business data?

Andy Smart October 19, 2014 0 Comments
Data quality is a key component of any business.  At its heart, data allows a business to build great and lasting relationships with customers – both internal and external. Building a consistent and holistic view of customers is not easy, however. It’s important to realise the importance of data granularity.  For example, storing a customers name in discrete data fields (title, first name,...
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