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16 Feb 2018

Avoid SEO Disaster While Redesigning Your Website

After a while, every website needs a redesign. Trends change, UI/UX features evolve and it’s only fitting that you keep up with them. However, you have strong rankings, traffic is growing as well as the profits, so it’s understandable that you are worried. It’s not uncommon to make mistakes during redesign that can cost you …

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16 Feb 2018

WordPress Translation is an Accessibility Issue, Don’t Fall Behind

WordPress is a global platform. With over 29 percent of the Internet, a lot of those users aren’t in English speaking countries. In fact, since 2014, there are more downloads not in English than in English. While WordPress defaults to English, it supports many languages and there are many great ways to translate WordPress post …

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7 Nov 2017

4 tips for a successful online business

It’s pretty often that we receive a call or an email from someone wanting to start a new online business. And what are the first words we usually hear from these entrepreneurs? It starts off like this: I’ve built up all this knowledge over the years now is the time to put it to use and …

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29 Aug 2017

2 Core Digital Marketing KPIs That Are Crucial for Your Business

If you’ve ever stepped foot in to the marketing industry, you’ve surely heard about key performance indicators (KPIs) and how important they are for businesses. They’re essentially metrics that help organisations monitor their functionality against their business goals and objectives. Many marketers obtain the gist of it, however, many have a problem in understanding which …

Marketing & Business

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14 Aug 2017

WordPress Essex Meetup

We are very happy to announce that registration for the first WordPress Essex meetup is now open. The event will be taking place at the Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford on Thursday 14 Sep. from 18:30 – 21:00 For several years our MD Dan Maby has been organising the WordPress London meetup, which has grown from …

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26 Jul 2017

How customers can help you Market your business

You already have the most influential marketing force at hand. No marketing program or campaign, organic or paid, can even come close to this force. What are we talking about here? Your customers of course! It amazes me when I think about it, for decades Amway (and many other multilevel marketing companies) have trained their …

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13 Jul 2017

Digital marketing and what it means for your business

Doing your marketing online is no longer optional. Rather, it ought to be an essential aspect of any business’s marketing strategy. Moreover, online marketing is diversifying, with new concepts such as influencer marketing coming to the fore. Recent studies indicate that over 80% of professionals working in the field of marketing and digital communications expect …

Marketing & Business

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15 Jun 2017

Why you need a FAQs page

The other day I went shopping for a shower head. I wanted to see if my shower head, a Moen product, was still under warranty. Since the manufacturer mission statement reads: “Buy it for looks buy it for life”, I thought I would search the Moen website first. I learned something to— Why you need a …

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5 Jun 2017

Essential WordPress Plugins for Virtual Assistants

Our team at assisted.by specialise in WordPress development. This means we spend a lot of time with WordPress plugins, when we can’t find what we need we’ll build our own. When setting out to develop your own Virtual Assistant website you want to ensure you are using well coded, efficient, secure and maintained plugins. Over the …

Interviews & FeaturesTools & ResourcesVirtual Assistants

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30 May 2017

Turning Instagram followers into buyers of your product or service

If you’re a user of Instagram then you know it only allows you to link to 1 website or page in your profile’s description (unless you’re paying for ads). This limits your company’s ability to promote a sale, at least by traditional methods. There are those rare cases where some Instagrammers are making some serious …

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26 May 2017

5 Tips for Virtual Assistants and the School Holidays

How do I manage the School holidays and my Virtual Assistant business? So it’s that time of year again here in the UK. The school summer holidays are upon us. For those of us with children and running a business from home this can be a challenging time of year. The balance of home life …

Interviews & FeaturesMarketing & BusinessVirtual Assistants

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9 May 2017

Homepage designs that are SEO friendly

Building a website for yourself or having it built for you requires thought and planning. This article covers what you should know to make Homepage designs that are SEO friendly and help convert lookers into potential clients. You’ve probably read these terms before: on-page optimization, keywords and SEO. The basics of SEO is the use of …

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