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Marketing

SEO for a Small Business: What Actually Moves It and What Only Looks Like Work

Most of what is sold as SEO to a small business is either eligibility work that takes an afternoon or content work that takes a year. Knowing which is which is most of the skill, and it decides what is worth paying for.

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Marketing

How to Analyse Competitors Without Copying Them: Six Columns and What Each One Tells You

Useful competitor analysis is not a study of their design. It is a table with six columns about what they answer, what they charge and what they refuse to do, and the value is entirely in the gaps it exposes on your own side.

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Marketing

Agency, Freelancer or In-House for Marketing: How to Decide, and What to Check Before You Sign

The choice between an agency, a freelancer and hiring is less about price than about which kind of continuity you need. Here is what each is genuinely good at, what each costs beyond the fee, and the four checks that survive any sales conversation.

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Company News

What pages a website should have: the list across three layers

Asked about pages, most people answer with menu items. But a site has three layers, and the third — the utility pages — gets built in a rush or not at all. The full list by layer.

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Company News

Customer reviews on a website: collecting real ones and placing them

Five cards reading Anna K. and everything was great convince nobody. When to ask for a review, how to phrase the question so people answer, and why a dedicated reviews page is useless.

Pitch Deck Design: The Structure the Conversation Rests On

Design

Pitch Deck Design: The Structure the Conversation Rests On

A pitch deck gets skimmed in three minutes without you. Design decides what gets read in them. The defining property of a pitch deck is almost always overlooked: most of the time it is opened when you are not in the room.

Logo Design Brief: Checklist, Concept Examples and Approval Criteria

Design

Logo Design Brief: Checklist, Concept Examples and Approval Criteria

A useful logo brief states the business task, audience, exact name, priority applications, constraints, deliverables and decision owner. Describe what the mark must do before choosing how it should look. Use the checklist below to make the brief testable.

How to Choose a Brand Typeface: Licence, Weights and the Checks That Come Too Late

Design

How to Choose a Brand Typeface: Licence, Weights and the Checks That Come Too Late

A typeface is chosen on a large sample and lived with in tables, captions and small print. A typeface is nearly always chosen from a large specimen: the brand name set at a hundred points, judged on impression.

Website Design: Three Different Jobs Under One Phrase, and How to Choose

Design

Website Design: Three Different Jobs Under One Phrase, and How to Choose

The phrase "website design" covers three different jobs with different prices and timelines. What separates them, when each is enough, and how to tell you have bought the wrong scope.

Which Programs Design Is Made In: Raster, Vector, Interfaces and Generation

Design

Which Programs Design Is Made In: Raster, Vector, Interfaces and Generation

"Which program do you use" almost always means something else: will I receive files I can open and hand on. The four classes of tool, their boundaries, and what belongs in a handover.

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Company News

Mobile version of a website: eight places it breaks most often

Opening the site on your own phone and scrolling is not a check: your phone is newer, the connection faster, and you know where to tap. Eight places a mobile version breaks most often.

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Company News

Website ROI: how to calculate it honestly and what gets left out

The site does not pay for itself is said far more often than it is calculated. A four-number formula, three ways of fooling yourself, and what to set up so there is something to count.

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