When did you last update your website?
Website design and technology has moved on a lot in the last 12 months. This means if you don’t have a plan to keep your website updated then it may well be starting to look tired and also just not work for the mobile visitor. With the big upsurge in the use of mobile devices to browse and make purchases it is essential for any business to offer a good user experience to these devices. It is NOT sufficient to just show a website that has been designed for a large desktop or laptop screen...
Read MoreEU e-Privacy Directive compliance
The EU e-Privacy Directive (aka EU Cookie Law) deadline for compliance in the UK is May 26th 2012. There is a lot of confusion around the directive with many organisations sitting on the fence and waiting to see what competitors are doing. regardless of if you agree with the directive or not you need to understand it, plan how it impacts your own website(s) and plan a strategy to implement the directive. What we at Praeparo recommend you do is: 1. Understand the directive You have...
Read MoreAre you getting value for money on your digital marketing?
It does not matter what amount you are spending but when did you last ask yourself if you are getting value for money on your digital marketing campaigns. At Praeparo we believe we can save you money in the long term. All too often small businesses are either not marketing at all or putting effort into the wrong areas first. For many small businesses getting your own website into order will be sufficient and it is not worth doing anything else until you have done this. We guess you have asked...
Read MoreIs your UK tourism website ready
I have just spent some time looking at a whole load of statistics from VisitEngland and the Great Britain Tourism Survey (GBTS) 2011. They clearly show that the England receives a massive spend in the travel and tourism sector: £8.3bn is the amount spent on domestic holidays in England between Jan and Sept 2011. £225 is the average amount spent per overnight holiday trip in England between Jan and Sept 2011. A number of surveys predict that as money gets tight more domestic holidays will be...
Read MoreIs Your Data Safe?
Have you lost a laptop or lost files due to disk failure or do you know someone that has? We would hazard a guess that most people would answer yes to the above. But, would also say they don’t actively back-up ALL business PC’s. Yes, you may have an external drive plugged into the back of a PC but how often do you remember to copy files to it, also if a power surge on your premises takes out your PC disk will your external hard drive be safe? The cost of recovering data from a...
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