How to Create a Responsive, Professional Website for Your Business in Dorking
For businesses in Dorking, having a professional looking website is essential to remain competitive and attract new customers. Dorking is a small town in Surrey, England, and as such, businesses in the area need to ensure that their web design is up-to-date and...
6 SEO Tips for Businesses in Dorking
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a powerful tool for businesses in Dorking to reach their local customer base. SEO helps you to target potential customers in Dorking and the surrounding areas, making your website visible to relevant people who are searching for the...
Why Use A Professional WordPress Maintenance Service
You might want to use professional WordPress maintenance services so you can focus on your business and not have to worry about the details of website maintenance. These services can save you time, give you expert help, make sure you can count on them, give you support, and be affordable.
Why It Is Important To Keep Your WordPress Website Updated
For optimum performance and to prevent any security flaws, WordPress and its plugins are regulary updated. Like updates for our phones, computers, and apps, these WordPress updates can help us learn about new features, reduce the number of problems we run into, and maintain a good user experience.
The Future of WordPress
The future of WordPress looks bright and promising. With its user-friendly interface and versatile capabilities, WordPress continues to be the top choice for many businesses and individuals for creating and managing websites. As continues to evolve and adapt our London Wordpress agency will continue to evolve and adapt with it…
Why WordPress is the best CMS
As a WordPress agency in London we get asked why more and more people choose WordPress as a website design and development platform? The reason is simple. Wordpress is a free, open-source CMS that is the perfect platform to build everything from a small blog to a thriving e-commerce site…
Divi 5 is here (nearly!)
The much anticipated Divi 5 is finally on its way and due for release in 2023! This latest release from Elegant Themes is packed with new features and improvements that are sure to take websites built with DIVI to the next level. Divi 5 is focused on performance and...
Divi: The Ultimate WordPress Theme?
We have been using the DIVI theme on all the sites we have built over the last 8 years and are massive fans. So we have written this short article to give newbies to DIVI an idea of what it is all about and why it is so great. About the DIVI theme The DIVI Theme is...
Coronavirus and your business
For business owners now is an uncertain time with the coronavirus causing a down turn in the economy. So what can you do to help insulate your business from being badly impacted... We were listening to a teleseminar yesterday by marketing great Chris Cardell and we...
Featured in the Elegant Themes DIVI Showcase January 2020
The Vemel.co.uk website we built using Elegant Theme's DIVI builder has been selected and featured in the top ten websites for the month of January by Elegant Themes . You can read more here:...
Winners of Best Technology & Design at the Epsom & Ewell Business Awards 2019
We won! Indigo Marmoset won the best business in Epsom & Ewell for Technology & Design 2019. We were up against some stiff competition so it was great to be chosen. A big thank you to the event organisers for putting on another fantastic awards evening and...
Attract more customers with local area landing pages
Are you looking for a way to expand your business empire and attract customers from neighbouring areas? Local area landing pages to the rescue! Maybe you run a business based in Epsom but you also want your business to be found in the Google search results by...
Attract more customers with re-marketing
This short article gives you the heads-up about re-marketing and why you should be using it to attract more leads from your website. Did you know that on average 98% of people who visit a website leave without taking an action such as filling out a contact form or...
Need to get customer reviews? Get a FREE TrustPilot Account!
If you are not already getting reviews from your customers then you need to start because customer reviews should be a key marketing activity for your business. Reviews give your business the chance to see what's working, help you get discovered by new customers and...
Get more customers with Google Adwords pay-per-click advertising
Most business owners have heard of Google Adwords but surprisingly not many of you are using it!! There is a lot of misinformation and old wives stories spoken about Adwords, so here is a re-fresher of how Google Adwords can help deliver a steady stream of customers...
How partnerships can transform your business
When thinking about business marketing, partnering with other companies is not a often discussed marketing tactic. But it should be, because the wins can be incredible! Out of all the different forms of marketing we have tried for our own business, finding and...
Getting more referrals for your business
For most businesses these just happen from time to time, but have you considered what an impact it could make for your business if you were to start encouraging more referrals? You probably already know referred leads are better than most, but are you aware of exactly...
How to use email marketing for your business
It is fair to say the boom days of emailing marketing have long gone! With inboxes bursting with mail and marketing emails often siphoned off by Outlook or just immediately junked, we have now become all but email blind. So, is there still opportunity to be had with...
We are a Google Partner
We are a Google Adwords Certified PartnerTo make sure we keep delivering excellent Adwords results for our clients, we have become a Google accredited Adwords Partner. This means we are trusted by the UK’s leading search engine to setup and manage your Google Adwords...
Secret Sauce – The Ultimate Growth Hacking Guide
I don't normally recommend books but today I make an exception... Launching a unique startup? This is the book for you. Want to discover how $4000 of completely unique handmade neckties were sold via instagram on on a launch? This is the book for you Want...
Chris Cardell’s Marketing Mastermind 2017
We have spent the weekend at the Chris Cardell Millionaire Mastermind 2017 learning about the latest online marketing trends. Highlights were an awesome guest speaker Jo Fairley, founder of Green & Black's chocolate. Listening to how she grew the brand from zero to...
A More Secure Web
For a while there has been talk about using https rather than http for websites. The difference between the two is that the 's' on https stands for 'secure'. Websites with https added at the start of the URL indicate an added level of security. In Google’s browser...
The Horror of a Non-Responsive Website
Beware the horror of trying to use an unresponsive website on a smart phone! Did you know, more people now use the internet on a mobile rather than a desktop device? If you website is not responsive, have you tried using it on a mobile phone? Hard, right? You have to...
The Dangerous Myth of Free Traffic
We are often asked by prospective clients "How can I be at the top of Google?" and they usually mean "for free". Whilst this would indeed be awesome, there are 2 key problems with this question: 1. The Google search results are actually 3 different sets of results....
Weaving Micro Content into Your Social Media Strategy
I often use the 'honey pot & drops of honey' analogy to describe how to promote your blog post (the honey pot) using micro content (like drops of honey) across your social media platforms, linking back to the blog post. However Kazi Quinton from the Small Business...
FREE image editing with the Pixlr online image editor
A common question we get asked by our clients is how to do edits to images before they are uploaded to WordPress to use on the (awesome) websites we have built them. Up until recently we have suggested they either purchase a cheaper stripped back version of Photoshop...
Google 3-pack down from 7 Local results. A push towards Adwords?
This month Google made a big change to how it displays the Local search results. The usual 7-pack of results that showed up for searches that included a geographic location such as "web design in Epsom" have been replaced with 3-packs in the desktop search results. If...
Why your homepage may be losing you business
Be honest. Does your company homepage; A: excite and entice potential customers with lively and engaging copy, impressive descriptions of your products and services and a promise of how your buyers will benefit from bringing their business to you B: provide adequate...
The importance of online reputation management
I listened to a good webinar on reputation management recently from Bright Local, which featured industry experts Thomas Ballantyne, Phil Rozek, Aaron Weiche & Don Campbell (you can listen to the full recording by clicking the link at the at the bottom of the...
Google’s new Mobile Friendly algorithm change
In April 2015 Google is launching an important algorithm change (how it decides to rank websites in the search results). As more and more users of Google are using smart phones to search online, Google are changing the mobile search results to favour websites it has...
He who dares Rodders, he who dares…
The other week myself and Murray finally bit the bullet and did something some of you have been telling us to do for a while (no, not the photo-shoot with the flamingos), something we should have done a long time ago; we handed in our notice at our day jobs. As most...
Creche vs. Toyroom. Shameless manipulation or strategic sales copy?
Well, if I'm honest, a bit of both. When I first attempted to persuade my two year old to try out a creche, apparently this would be a word that conjured up negative thoughts about being left by Mummy in a room. Attempt number two saw me relabelling the same place the...
Google My Business is launched
Google My Business combines Google+ Local and Google Places. The Android app is out and the IOS app is coming soon. The front end experience for clients should remain pretty much the same but Google My Business has been released to make it easier for business owners...
How to choose a web designer
Thinking of hiring a web designer? This post 'how to choose a web designer' looks at the important factors you should consider before picking up the phone! So, how to choose a web designer... Knowing what you want If you are not too familiar with marketing or website...
Google Search Results for Business
We all use Google everyday to search for useful web content such as products, restaurants or a cool local web design & marketing company 🙂 But when you are looking at the Google search results you may not appreciate that Google often displays three different...
Make your life a little easier with Dropbox!
Are you looking for an easy and secure way to store and share files and pictures on your PC, laptop, tablet or phone? Welcome to Dropbox... Dropbox is a freemium service which makes online storage and sharing of files and pictures dead simple. If you work on a laptop...
Mobile Responsive Web Design for Businesses in Surrey
At the time of writing, up to 25 percent of web traffic now comes from smartphones and tablets [updated: over 50% in 2015], and this is set to grow rapidly over the next few years! "48% said that if a site didn't work well on their smartphones, it made them feel like...
Branding & marketing lessons from Nando’s
I love Nando's. For one I don't have to think too much about what I'm going to order (I always go for the chicken!) but mainly because when it comes to marketing and branding they've really got their act together. The spirit of fun and eclectic mix of design that ties...
We are upgrading our website hosting to cloud servers
Our hosting servers will soon be upgraded to a brand new and awesome cloud hosting platform. Most website design companies host their client's websites on a shared server. Shared servers, as their name suggests, are hosting servers that host lots of websites which all...
Build a five star reputation with online reviews and position yourself as the market leader!
Did you know: 85% of consumers say they read online reviews for local businesses 65% are more likely to use a business which has positive online review 79% say they trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations Data taken from BrightLocal's Local Consumer...
Personalised Christmas Cards
If you are one of the few who hasn't already, it is not too late to order Christmas cards personalised with your own image / logo and message. The A5 Christmas cards are printed full colour both sides on a thick 300gsm stock, so it is a great opportunity to not only...