Posts by: Jude Wharton

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50% Off All Our Website and Membership Site Prices to Support Small Businesses

We are hearing at networking meetings and seeing in Facebook groups that many people are considering ways they can work on their business if things get quiet due to the impact of Covid-19. Many of the comments are around working on their online presence including creating a new website. We use Loom, the video recording…

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My VIP Card Discount

Some of you may already have seen that if you have a My VIP Card you can get a discount off Ready Steady Websites® templates. Others of you may be wondering… What’s My VIP Card? Well, I will tell you. My VIP Card is a card that encourages you to shop local by giving you…

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Guest Post – Why I Launched a Website Early in My Business Journey

by Gillian Duncan When you are in the early stages of building your business, it’s easy to get lost in the plethora of information and advice that’s out there. You quickly become overwhelmed by it all and it’s easy to get caught up in the recent trends presented on social media by the latest ‘all-knowing…

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Shout About Your Business with an Amazing Website

As business owners we know that to get customers and sales we have to get ourselves out there and shout about our business. When I say “shout”, that’s not how we tend to do it. In fact, if I’m honest, we aren’t that good at shouting about what we do. This might be because we…

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Our Business Journey

How did we get here? Well, that’s a deep philosophical question. It is one that I won’t attempt to answer, especially as the philosophy module of my degree was my weakest by far. I will instead tell you our journey of how we got to the point of creating Ready Steady Websites®. Perhaps there will…

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Guest Post – Does Your Business Provide a Delightful User Experience?

By Sandra from yUXer Have you ever wondered how your clients feel when leaving your website or what they said to a friend about your services?  It might sound simple but there is a whole field that aims to study and design the experience that a product or service provides to a customer.  I personally…

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How We Build Trust in Our Business

If people don’t trust you or your business, then it won’t be a success. I truly believe that. You might have a flurry of business, perhaps when it’s new and exciting or when you put an unbelievably good offer out there but unless you really deliver and build up trust with your customers or clients…

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Being Unique in Business

We mentioned in our last blog post that it’s important for your website to be unique, just like you and your business, but how do you get that uniqueness across? And how do you find that uniqueness in the first place? USPs In business lots of people talk about their USP or Unique Selling Point.…

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Website Problems and The Solutions

In our line of work we talk to a lot of people who aren’t happy with their website which isn’t a big surprise considering what it is that we do. (We do websites, in case that wasn’t clear.) Sometimes they aren’t happy because they designed and built it themselves thinking it would be easy and…

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Getting Your Online Presence Right is Hard

If you’re an entrepreneur, solopreneur, small business owner, business mogul in the making, whatever title you feel comfortable with, you know one of the key things that will make you successful is getting your online presence right. What you will also know is that this can be hard. You need to consider which social media…