One thing is finding the right theme for your WordPress site, and of course creating really good content, but the right WordPress plugins can really take your site to the next level. In this post we take a look at some of the plugins we believe will make your site fly. High. Sociable This plugin makes it easy for your …
Why Your Business Needs a Website
If you are a small business owner you might wonder why you should invest time and money in having a website. Why not just opt for a Facebook page or a Google Plus page? And whilst you should definitely also have those – having your own website is crucial. A website is yours. It is for you to do with …
WHY WE CREATED SWARM
Usually businesses don’t just happen. They emerge as an answer to a question, a problem or, in our case, multiple requests. So today I thought I’d share with you how Swarm came in to being. And why I love my job. Why did we create Swarm? We’ve worked in the digital world for a long time, and had time and …
WHAT WE LEARNED: THE ELEVATOR PITCH
On Monday we walked you through the Top 5 Ways to do LinkedIn right, but what about those potential connections you meet out in the real life? How do you make sure that you are best prepared to turn a random encounter into a potentially meaningful connection? Enter: The Elevator Pitch. We’ve all heard about the elevator pitch, the 30 second …
WHAT WE LEARNED: JOIN THE CULTURE CLUB
This week I watched an interview with Marc Benioff on This Week in StartUps. Marc is the CEO/founder of Salesforce, one of the largest CRM software development companies in the world. He started by telling the story of his 13 year employment at Oracle and how he watched that particular company grow into the corporation it is today. However in …
WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN CHOOSING A WORDPRESS THEME
Choosing the right WordPress theme for your new website can be a daunting task, but there are a few things which are key to remember when deciding on your theme. A good idea is to first outline which elements will be the most important to you on any site. If you are building an eCommerce site, make sure the shop experience …
WHAT IS SEO?
If you’re new to owning a website, or are looking to start one up for your business, then you probably haven’t heard about SEO, or you have but you’re not quite sure what it actually is. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation; this is the process of driving traffic from web content into search engine results. As a beginner myself, I …
WE LOVE PAGE BUILDERS
There are an abundance of themes out there to choose from. All of which comes with different functionalities and ways of putting together the individual pages. Using a page builder is by far our preferred way of working. There are a whole host of page builders available, and some are definitely better than others. But in general a page builder …
TOP 5: WAYS TO USE LINKEDIN RIGHT
By now it can come as no surprise to anyone that LinkedIn is the social network to be on, when it comes to promoting your business and your (professional) self. But still so many of us struggle to figure out how and where to get started. Join Communities on LinkedIn A great place to start is to join a few …
TOP 5: WAYS TO AVOID STRESSING OUT
Deadlines. Some people hate them, some people love them, and no matter how well we plan they always seem to happen at the same time. So today we are looking at ways to avoid stressing out when your to-do list seems more like a to-do book, and some one seems to have sped up the clock and five o’clock seems dangerously …