New year, new ideas – our top 10
January 10, 2010 by Tim
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With a very cold start to the new year, warm up your business opportunities with a new look, fully featured website – and do it in a low-carbon, green way to help the environment with solar powered hosting!
Whether you are a B&B, hotel, holiday cottage, restaurant, food producer, shop, activity centre or any small business choose from a wide range of website design and hosting packages that have been put together with every size of budget in mind.
Our top 10 New Year ideas
Developing your online presence doesn’t have to mean a complete rewrite – here are some ideas for the New Year:
- Improve your visual image and get a new logo designed by an experienced graphic designer – for as little as £75
- Add a gallery of beautiful photos to your website – this creates interest and with the right SEO tags, adds image search to your site
- Create new marketing opportunities using no-cost online tools and applications
- Track your website visitors to measure the impact of traditional advertising in newspapers
- Make your website interactive through web polls or customer feedback forms
- Embrace ‘social media’ tools such as Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook to improve business connections and communication
- Run an email marketing campaign or simply an email newsletter using reputable, proven and often no-cost technology
- Encourage and track ‘subscribers’ to your site using no-cost online tools
- Add Paypal ‘buy-now’ buttons and start trading without a huge investment
- Go green – run your existing website on solar power
Naturally we can help with all of these – contact us to discuss your business plans and ideas this year and get some open, honest advice about the online opportunities that exist for your business.
To take advantage of the offer, just quote GREENSKYE10 when placing your order. Valid until 28 Feb 2010.
Join us on Twitter
December 24, 2009 by Tim
Come join us on Twitter. If you’ve never had a look at Twitter, it is a fabulous communication tool for both business and personal use.
Businesses (small or large) can use Twitter in many ways:
- As a marketing tool to tell customers about your product/service e.g. by making regular pictures of your B&B / surrounding views available for holidaymakers to see
- To provide an additional way for potential customers to get in touch e.g. putting a link on your website
- To link up with possible clients who talk about your business area e.g. searching for holidaymakers who talk about visiting a specific area of Skye or enjoying a specific activity such as walking or kayaking
- To create a community of like-minded businesses / business owners e.g. a horticultural society
Keeping your twitter stream updated and fresh is important but due to the 140 character limit of messages it is very easy and not at all a burden on anyones busy schedule.
From a personal point of view it can be used to:
- keep in regular contact with friends and family (a bit like sending a text message to all)
- make new friends in your area, who are also on twitter
- keep in touch with news about your hobbies and interests
- get up-to-date news from credible sources
Go look for yourself – registration is easy and doesn’t require you to input lots of personal information.
p.s. don’t forget to ‘follow’ skyewebsites !
Welcome to Skyewebsites!
December 24, 2009 by Tim
Welcome to the new Skyewebsites website! If you are new to us please take the time to have a look around at the different website design and development packages, as well as the superb green hosting solutions that we offer to our clients.
Our ‘green hosting’ is powered 100% by solar energy – so it is true green hosting rather than carbon offsetting (where CO2 has already been emitted).
We’ve put together a set of website design and hosting packages that we feel offer quality and value for a wide range of budgets and requirements.
Let us know what you think of the new website and our packages:
Email us at hello@skyewebsites.com
Send us a tweet – follow skyewebsites on twitter
Call us on 01470 511709
or leave us a comment below!