I recently blogged about preparing to give debbidoo.com a big facelift. In this post, I said that my plan is to do away with the services I rarely get asked about, and to bring in some new services that I do get asked about.
One of these is web design. Since building debbidoo.com 18 months ago, I’ve since built websites for clients as well as for other debbidoo projects, and for another business of which I’m a director, Petha Ltd.
As web design is something I seem to be doing more of – and something which I really enjoy doing – I’ve decided to add it as a service to clients. And as it’s brand spanking new, I’ve decided to launch this service with a cracking introductory offer… but it’s limited to the first FIVE people to apply. Keep reading →
The services I’m being asked to provide by my clients have turned out to be quite different from the services I expected to provide when I first started my business (no rude comments, please!) so I’ve decided that it’s time my website was overhauled. Time to weed out some of the stuff that I never get asked to do, and bring in the stuff that I do get asked to do. And have a general tidy-up, add some extra functionality, change the look and feel a bit, that sort of thing.
My new site is going to work quite differently. I won’t say too much now – I’ll hang on until release, and mither on about it then instead – but while I’m in the planning stages, I thought I’d ask around and see if anyone has any suggestions for things they’d like to see added, removed, or improved at debbidoo.com. Keep reading →
Many businesses go bust in their first year; look around the web and you’ll find articles which claim that anything from 25% to 80% of businesses won’t be around to celebrate their first birthday.
What a relief it is to be able to say that debbidoo isn’t one of them!
For today, 7 April 2009, we’re celebrating one year to the day since we launched debbidoo to the big wide world (in fact, the anniversary of incorporating the business slipped quietly by at the end of February; launch-birthday is the biggie). Keep reading →
As a confirmed Twitterholic, I’ve been very interested to learn about the recent explosion in Twitter traffic. Not so long ago, the microblogging service was mainly used by techies, social media experts and marketers.But in the past couple of months Twitter has seen a massive surge in popularity – due, in part, to the number of celebrity endorsements the site has had in the UK of late.
Saw this T-Mobile ad between segments of Big Brother a few nights, and thought it was superb. It’s long (over two and a half minutes) but bear with it, as the message at the end helps it all make sense. Not that it even really needed to make a huge amount of sense, it was that engaging.
Anyway, I’m rambling. Watch the ad and let me know what you think:
I’ve been a Christmas addict all my life. Ever since those massive week-long family gatherings at my grandparents’ house as a child, those magical times when we’d post our letters to Father Christmas (not Santa; it was Father Christmas when I was a little girl) through the air vent in Nan’s kitchen chimney and then wonder excitedly how he’d get through the tiny slats, I’ve always had a lot of love for all things Christmassy. Keep reading →
When you can afford it, it’s lovely to have access to a fully managed email newsletter broadcast service; it saves you work, you don’t need to spend ages learning something new, and you can relax knowing that an experienced professional is doing it all for you.
However, times are hard, and at times like these your budget may not stretch to a fully managed service. Keep reading →
This post is part of a series of articles about presenting and interpreting statistics for business and marketing.The previous post in the series was “Stats entertainment: working with percentages“
What is a KPI dashboard?
KPI stands for Key Performance Indicator, and KPIs comprise whatever data you consider to be useful in measuring business performance, for example sales figures, marketing spend or any other aspect of your business or your industry that you care to measure.
A KPI dashboard is a place where you can keep this data so that you can refer back to it whenever you need to compare one set of data to another. Keep reading →
The thought of working with percentages can be daunting if you don’t already know the very simple formulae involved; in fact, writing this post has reminded me of the tears and tantrums we had to endure when my daughter was sitting GCSE maths (a horrible time in all our lives, and thank goodness that’s all over).
When you’re running a business or are involved in sales or marketing, percentages are something you’re not going to be able to avoid, and you’re going to have to bite the bullet and learn how to work with them.But let me reassure you: once you know how, you’ll wonder what you were ever worried about.Seriously. Percentages are easy-peasy to work out with a calculator, so you don’t even have to be any good at maths (I’ve been a total maths dunce all my life, but I can do percentages with my eyes shut, as long as I’ve got a calculator). Keep reading →
A couple of days ago I received an email from one of my friends, entitled “Important stats just in”, with a load of attachments presenting daft data (such as “things Meatloaf will do for love” and “countries that should cry for me”) in graph form.Actually, I’d seen most of the attachments before, but they still made me laugh out loud.
