It's very common to hear from small businesses owners that they ‘want to increase their likes or follower count’ but when asked ‘why’ there is oftentimes no logical answer given. Isn’t it better to have more followers and likes, you might ask – generally of course but...
How Effective is Business Blogging as Part of Your 2019 Content Marketing Strategy?
We’ve talked a lot about business blogging in our previous posts over the years, here are a few: https://www.opace.co.uk/blog/business-blogging-why-should-i-bother https://www.opace.co.uk/blog/simple-ways-to-generate-more-blog-traffic;...
Essential Free WordPress Plugins & Themes That Your Website Can’t be Without
Editors Note: Our Essential free WordPress plugins and themes post was originally created in March 2016. From Gutenberg to new plugins, the world of WordPress has changed quite a lot since then, but many of plugins and themes on our original list have lasted the test...
The Advantages & Benefits of Using WordPress as Your CMS
It has been nearly 5 years since we wrote our first article titled 'Why choose WordPress for your web design'. Back then, it was a fantastic blog and easy-to-use CMS (content management system) but how do things look for WordPress in late 2018/ 2019? Let's take a look...
Infinite possibilities & revolutionary web design with the Divi 2.4 theme for WordPress
Not every WordPress user is a web designer or developer. With this in mind, WordPress theme development company Elegant Themes decided to create a theme that would allow web designers and even end-users to design their own site layouts inside WordPress, without...
Thinking of starting a company blog? Let’s start with the basics
Some quick blogging tips... If you are a small business that is starting to consider blogging, hopefully these quick tips will help point you in the right direction how to get started. Assuming you already know what blogging is, a good place to start is to start...
What are Favicons and does your website need one?
What are Favicons and does your website need one? A favicon can is a website URL icon that displays from whichever website you are currently visiting, usually located in the top left hand corner of the browser title bar or tab. In the address bar when you type the URL...
Developing great social media content
Top tips to help the time-strapped business owners post effective social media content The increased importance of social media for businesses has been driven by the two most important players in the world of the internet: Google and web users! For many businesses ...
Top Tips to getting your business blog post to #1
Successful Business Blogging Blogs are a great for businesses. Besides being a way to engage with customers, encourage feedback and build brand, done correctly business blogging is a relatively easy way to achieve high Google rankings with a minimum level of SEO...
Social Media Marketing for Retail
Is now the time to start? As Napoleonce declared, the British are a nation of shopkeepers and it is as true in 2012 as it was in 1815. Local stores always find trading conditions difficult - they have had to survive the onslaught of supermarkets and now are facing...