The art of checking out: Lessons learnt from shopping online
My thoughts on how businesses can provide a positive online shopping experience alongside their brick-and-mortar stores.
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Local SEO in an online world
Thoughts on how to optimise your website for local search when your business doesn’t require a physical location.
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Digital Minimalism Part 2: After the Experiment
Having now finished the ‘digital decluttering’ period, I wanted to report back on how it’s gone and how it has affected both me and my business.
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Protecting your online privacy
Liberate your digital self with some small changes to make your online life a little more private. Includes my recommendations for privacy-focussed alternatives for web browsers, email, search, analytics and more!
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7 ways your website might be abusing your customers personal data
How big tech companies stopped data mining and started handing out shovels instead.
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Digital Minimalism Part 1: The Digital Declutter
I’m exploring Cal Newport’s philosophy of Digital Minimalism using less technology with more purpose and none of the distractions.
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Inbox clever: how to use your email newsletter effectively
Thoughts on email newsletters including collating useful content, designing good signup forms and respecting your readers privacy.
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Setting up a website on a tight budget
If you want to go down the DIY route with your website I’ve put together some tips for setting up a basic site on your own.
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New adventures with an old phone
Everyone can do with a digital detox from time to time! Thoughts on why I’ve been going back to basics with a ‘dumb phone’ on evenings and weekends.
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How ethical branding can help your business and the world
I have had the pleasure of working with Charlotte Holroyd of Creative Wilderness on a number of projects in the past. Charlotte is an ethical branding specialist, and so I asked her to write about what that means and how branding can help elevate a website project.
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