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So What?

So What?

Sometimes people tell me that they don’t know what to do to make their business different. They’re just doing their thing, like all the other business in their industry, each doing their thing….

Black Hat

Blackhat Attitude?

For small businesses that have a website, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is often seen as… A dark art, deploying techniques and skills that are owned by few. A way of scamming / beating…

Responsive Writing

Responsive Writing with Twitter

If your business uses content marketing as part of your strategy to increase traffic through organic search, then let me ask you a question – what defines what you write about? Maybe you…

Working without a brief

Why going Briefless can make you a better creative

I’ve spent 8 years in the web industry and I’ve met more than my fair share of exceptionally creative people. Many of these guys I’d say were limited heavily not by their own…

Twitter for Business Milton Keynes

How Twitter can help your business Take Off!

Twitter is great for finding new ideas, opportunities, information, services, and products. When I first joined twitter, I would spend hours just reading other people’s tweets, getting advice from high-profile bloggers, seeing what…

Online Marketing Milton Keynes

Everything has changed

How was your Christmas? Mine was great. Except for the shopping part – I left it to the last minute, and it was a rush. Judging by the crowds of people, I wasn’t…

Local Search SEO Milton Keynes

Online Marketing in Milton Keynes – 14 Action Steps for improving your Local Search traffic

The fine art of Local Search Do you want to reach prospective customers in the Milton Keynes area who are already looking for the product or service that you sell? Selling to someone…

Wordpress 3.3 Sonny

WordPress 3.3 New Features – Drag and Drop Uploading

WordPress 3.3 was released today and after a few hours of use, I’m quite impressed. Though I kind of wish that some of these updates had been rolled out a bit sooner as…

Free Marketing

What you can’t ignore about Free Marketing

It’s an attractive term isn’t it. The thing is, so many businesses I speak to believe that it exists. They believe in a “build it, and they will come” business model. With so…

Ross Breadmore Nixon McInnes

Interview with Ross from Nixon McInnes – using Social Media for self-promoting artists

My interview with Ross from Nixon McInnes has just been published on Curator today. Take a look if you get a moment, he raises some really interesting ideas about the social landscape.

About 1985

A small but perfectly formed Milton Keynes based creative studio. We design for web and print, we build websites on popular frameworks and from scratch. We help small businesses define who they are, where they’re going, and how they can finely tune their image to make an impact. We write big words… in a simple way.

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