What a small business website costs in the UK
Building it yourself, a freelancer or an agency: what each costs, and the yearly costs to plan for.
Marketing tips for small businesses, in plain English.
This is the Towpath Journal, written by me, David. It covers what helps a small business get found and get busier: Google, reviews, social media and your website.
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Google your own business: a five-minute check
Search your business the way a customer would, and fix what you find in five minutes.
Free help for small businesses in Spelthorne
Free mentoring, networking and advice for businesses in Staines and across the borough, and how to sign up.
Doing your own social media? Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, sorted
Here’s how to do a good job of your own social media, platform by platform, without paying an agency hundreds of pounds a month.
Starting from home? What your first business website actually needs
What a first website needs to do, and what you can safely leave out.
How to land your first ten customers with no marketing budget
Where your first customers really come from, and how to reach them without spending a penny.
Five things quietly costing you customers on your website
Five small, fixable mistakes that stop visitors turning into enquiries.
How to get your business into Google’s local Map Pack
How a small business earns a place in the three results under the map.
How to get more Google reviews, without breaking the rules
How to earn a steady stream of reviews, the honest way.
A simple weekly social media routine for a busy local business
A twenty-minute weekly routine you can keep up, without posting every day.
Nothing in that category yet. More posts are on the way.
I can build the website these tips point to.
If you’d rather I set up the website and your Google Business Profile for you, tell me about your business and I’ll come back with a fixed quote.