For months now, the team have endured international relocations, sub-zero degree temperatures, heat that threatened to literally melt our eyeballs; all the while working to build a new Wholesale Scene from the ground up. Things could’ve been worse though, we could’ve all been satisfied with the grind of our dead-end 9 to 5 jobs, looking forward only to the ‘rest’ one could get on the weekends when we would exchange our grey-suited tube commutes to and from work, for slightly less formal, to and from shopping center commutes. Ah, to live the dream…

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Amongst the thousands or more schools of thought regarding Twitter marketing for business, the most often discussed, and the one which lies at the heart of all schools is whether or not marketing on Twitter is useful for business promotion.

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Dear Jane, Suzie and Sam,

I apologise for not writing back sooner, but things have been busy here, to say the least! In the 7 months we’ve been away, we have been travelling throughout Europe, Asia and Australia, worked in digital boutiques in the UK, product-sourced and manufactured products in south-east Asia, and found love in the most unlikely of places in the back-streets of Barcelona.
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We’ll jump straight into the final part of our discussion on travel tech, talking about laptop cases, speakers, iPhones and more!

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Part of the dream is to be your own boss, probably work from home or a small office which is brilliant, but some of us take the dream further: we want to work on the road, travelling the world and living life.  Setting up your own home office is fairly straightforward: you more or less mimic your regular office with a desk, computer, etc.  But what about your office on-the-move?  What do you need to be a businessman travelling the globe?  Here are a few ideas from my own personal experience.

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A big part of many websites is user interaction.  This can be achieved in ways such as forums or commenting systems and many popular CMS and blogging systems come with these features built in.  They can be useful in a pinch, but sometimes you need more than they provide.

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Closing off our discussion from last time we’ll jump straight back into things, discussing a few more HTML tags as we as consider the actual content of our site and what points to us.

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I have to apologise straight away, because the title here is a bit misleading.  The following nuggets of insight are the basics of SEO to be sure, but they’re not really tricks or fancy techniques to get Google and the other search engines to notice you and rank you higher.  What follows is the basic standard you should be starting with before seeking out SEO gurus with whom to spend your mounds of marketing money.

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Feedback is an important part of any business.  It’s a way to make sure you’re on track with your customers’ wants and expectations and that you aren’t doing anything completely off the mark.  One way is to conduct a survey, so today we’ll discuss how you might go about this and the sorts of things you can ask.

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We all like to change up our look every now and again, whether it’s our hair, wallpaper or website (and if you’re Facebook then you have this impulse every two months or so).  But when it comes to your company’s website, is your only consideration which graphic designer to choose?

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