Posts by: Jude Wharton

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How to Choose the Right Membership Site Platform for Your Membership – 5 steps

There are so many membership site platforms out there. Choosing the right platform for your membership is really important because once you have set up your membership it’s hard to switch over to another platform. It’s not impossible, it can be done, but it’s time consuming, can lead to tech headaches and your members will…

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How to Promote an Offer on Your Website in a Way That Won’t Annoy Your Website Visitors – 4 Top Tips

We are fast approaching the season of offers, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas bargains, New Year sales, I’m sure there are more! It can sometimes be hard to know how to promote an offer on your website in a way that won’t annoy your website visitor and chase them away. It’s important to make your…

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Are We a Green Web Company? 5 Ways We Are Working Positively for the Environment

More and more people are becoming aware of the impact of what they buy and the services they use on the environment and as a business and in our personal lives we are the same. It’s fantastic that this is becoming more important to people and with it being more present in people’s minds we…

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6 Top Tips for Creating High Converting Landing Pages and Sales Pages

Once someone hits one of your landing pages or sales pages you don’t want anything to distract them from taking action. If they are there, they are already a little bit interested in what you do and you need them to stay focused to make them a lot interested in what you do. Some people…

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It’s Not All About Video – Content That People Want to Consume

Last week I saw a survey on LinkedIn asking what type of content people prefer to consume on social media and the results surprised me. Considering we are often hearing that social media platforms will push video content, it’s not actually the type of content that a lot of people want to consume. Now, I’m…

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How Will the iOS 15 Update Affect Your Email Tracking?

This might not be something you are even aware of yet but there is a new iOS 15 update. iOS is Apple’s operating system used on their phones and iPads. This new update allows users to say that they don’t want their emails to be tracked which means for anyone using email marketing systems, such…

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3 Ways to Stop Getting Overwhelmed by Website Tasks

We are a couple of months in to running our Ready Steady Websites® Mentoring Membership and we have realised that one of the reasons people stall in getting their website online or when trying to improve their website is because they are getting overwhelmed by website tasks. It may be that writing their copy seems…

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4 Lessons From the Day Facebook Went Down

So, on Monday last week there were people panicking in the small business world. Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram went down. People couldn’t access their accounts. They couldn’t access other things that they had set up in connection with their Facebook account. They couldn’t communicate with people. Chris and I didn’t notice until we saw…

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3 Sources of Blog Post Inspiration

Sometimes I know straight away what I’m going to write for our next blog post there are other times when I’m struggling for inspiration. If you write a business blog, I expect you probably feel the same from time to time. You may think that you’ve written it all before and you don’t want to…

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3 Top Tips For Creating Your First Lead Magnet

I was recently asked my views on lead magnets. In short, they’re great if you use the right one, present it well and put it in front of the right people. The problem is knowing what the right lead magnet is, how to present it and how to get it out there. Once you have…