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		<title>A new website is not an instant marketing machine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something that crops up a lot in creating websites for small businesses and startups is the problem of expectations. More specifically, marketing expectations. Many (but not all) customers who commission us to create them a new website have a common expectation – that the new website will be an all in one marketing machine, out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handy resources for you</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to give something back, we think. So we&#8217;ve recently started making a collection of free and handy resources on our website. Mainly they&#8217;re aimed at small businesses and startups, but really anyone could find them really useful. To start with we&#8217;ve added these 2 items: Social network profile images chart Specifications for all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affordable website design package for startups</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Startups are amazing&#8230; No really, we mean it. We work with many of them so we know these are exciting but very challenging times to be starting a business, or making a new product. It&#8217;s hard. But the one thing we hear most is that many of you don&#8217;t need or want a big fancy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homepage fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markbowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently spotted this button on a business website – a shocking example of a company&#8217;s complete failure to read it&#8217;s own homepage! What makes it so bad is that this seems to be their main call-to-action button. They seem to be spending a lot of time relentlessly promoting their own blog posts to people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are we heading?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve not blogged for a few months. We know, it&#8217;s not good. But it all got a bit much earlier this year and events meant that blogging got pushed aside while we sorted out the way forward. But you don&#8217;t want to hear about that! Instead, let us explain what we&#8217;ve been up to and [...]]]></description>
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