For the HarbourView Guest House in Jersey – a short video to present the feel of the place and the area. The brief was to have an “artisan” and slightly abstract feel, so nice images, lots of mood. The movie was shot over a few days and finished within a week. The owner, Kelly, is thrilled with the results and since adding this to the homepage enquiries have increased significantly. John Hollingsworth, our film director and producer has worked on
With massive bandwidth increases available to almost everyone video is fast becoming the primary method of communication with potential and existing customers. It is dynamic and maintains interest far beyond a static page. It is entertainment. Video should be considered as part of your communication with customers for acquisition and retention. Consider it for anything you want to say to customers when they purchase a product or service – or if they have a problem. A video can be instructional,
The concept of cubicle offices is really getting popular now and taking that one step further is Easy Office which allows you to get an office for as little as two weeks and for up to 20 desks in London or Manchester. The good thing about this is its great for short term projects – trials, or temporary expansion if you suddenly need to up the head count or have a new project. Easy Office comes from Stelios, the man
Google and Facebook have been the high profile perpetrators of privacy gaffs in the past 12 months but thats because they are the biggest, most visible entities, guilty, it would seem, of a rather laissez faire approach to the use of [our] personal information. Less obvious, but more complicit are the advertising networks [baddies] who insidiously exploit modern tracking methods to manipulate advertising to their benefit and supposed interests of us, the consumer [innocent victims]. For example: Two or three
“All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.” Prize for the source of that quote! But its true, customer service appeared to change with the internet and shopping on line, and we all thought the high streets, and buying face to face in shops was doomed. But as internet businesses grow we see that things are coming straight back to where they used to be – perhaps not quite the high street, but definitely where we
Remove Magento demo store image from printed order confirmation Here’s one that catches a few out now and then – when setting up and configuring your new Magento installation remember to test everything! Do a test order and notice, if you haven’t edited it out, you have a link to print this order. This works out of the box and formats properly but the default has the Magento demo store logo. To change this you need to replace the default
Here's an interesting one. Did you know that all road signs in Europe comply with the Vienna convention on signs? Well now perhaps we're seeing the beginning of a similar convention for icons; the Noun Project
Changes are happening faster and faster at Google and the needle has moved a notch closer towards the commercial end of the philanthropic/commercial gauge today with Google announcing that their search is now even more location sensitive. Over the next couple of weeks you will you will have appear in the left column your auto-detected location along with a dropdown to select other locations if desired. Of course this is couched as simply being more transparent but the result is that you’ll
