Monthly Archives: May 2019

Building and designing your perfect website

Originally written by Partner Content on Small Business
With so many templates, themes and options out there when it comes to building and designing a website, it can be overwhelming to know where to start and what exactly your new business website needs to do.
Similarly, it can be easy to get carried away and add all sorts of funky features that could potentially impact your website speed and confuse your customers.
Here are some of the main points to consider when you begin thinking about designing your website, with links to handy articles and guides.
Who will design and build your website?
There are a couple of options for you to consider when it comes to the actual building and designing of your new website.
Many online web builders allow you to create your own website using simple drag-and-drop functions and themes. You can investigate some of the top options to use here. When you buy a domain name from a registrar, occasionally they will offer web builders as part of a package, so keep an eye out to explore that option too. These options allow you to have more control over how your website looks and functions, as well as being the more cost-effective

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I pay a videographer to track my every move – podcast

Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
Welcome back to Small Business Snippets, the podcast from SmallBusiness.co.uk.
In this episode, Anna Jordan chats to Peter Watson, managing director of social media marketing agency, Distract. He explains how he uses his personal brand to represent his business and why he thinks that Twitter is dead.
You can listen to it here:
Peter Watson: ‘I pay a videographer to track my every move’
We’ve also got podcast episodes looking at:

How funding a business led one entrepreneur to stress-related alopecia
One entrepreneur’s first professional public speaking engagement
Adapting to UK life and learning English before starting a business
Securing seed funding
Finding the perfect head of customer care
Reaching a £1 million annual rate of return
Boosting client numbers from 30 to 850
Starting a brand new business from scratch

To find out more about Small Business Snippets, you can also download the trailer.
If you want to listen to the podcast elsewhere, it’s available on iTunes, Google Play, SoundCloud and Spotify.
Be sure to visit SmallBusiness.co.uk for more articles around building a brand.
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I pay a videographer to track my every move – podcast

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Investment community to focus on inclusivity and support

Originally written by Stephanie Spicer on Small Business
A programme designed to help investors to in turn help and support the business they invest in has been launched.
Mindful Investor was devised by Guy Tolhurst of alternative investment research source for financial advisers, Intelligent Partnership, after he recognised a need to establish fairer, more responsible and holistic investment practices across the UK business investment community.
The mindful Investor programme operates through key stages: assessment; report and road map.
Assessment looks at how an investor works with employees and SME owners; the report measures the investor against a set of principles and shows the investor how diverse and inclusive it is and the road map stage shows how an investor can support better health, well-being, culture and environment itself and within the business it invests in.
Tolhurst says he wants to create a “more inclusive and supportive financial ecosystem, by encouraging investors to put people and profits on an equal footing and pay more attention to the diversity and well-being of the teams they invest in”.
It is hoped the programme will drive a cultural change towards more socially responsible investment into Britain’s small and growing businesses, focusing on the benefits of financial capital to help businesses

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