The Importance of Good Quality Design and Print
In an age of technology, print marketing remains prominent and effective for businesses. It gives businesses the opportunity to reach out to their community/target consumer, whether it is through posting flyers or personally handing out business cards. Not everyone uses the internet, so print reaches all ages, specifically the older generation. Printing separates your business […]
How Can I Boost My Presence with SEO?
First impressions last and your website’s speed is a potential customer’s first impression of your business, so for it to be responsive and loading speeds to be at a minimum is so vital. If your website takes longer than 3 seconds to load, approximately 40% of your visitors will abandon your site, and about 70% […]
Why Does My Niche Business Need A Website?
In today’s digital age, a website is no longer a luxury for a business; it’s a necessity. A website is the online storefront that can help you reach new customers, build credibility, showcase your products and services, stay competitive, and build relationships with your customers. In this blog post, we’ll explore the importance of having […]
What Makes Us Somerset’s Leading ECommerce Web Developer?
If there’s one thing we’ve learnt, it’s how much we rely on online shopping. The eCommerce industry continues to thrive, quickly overtaking traditional face-to-face shopping. One of the key aspects of any successful eCommerce website is design. Your website’s design visualises the quality of your business, building customers’ trust in your brand. As an eCommerce […]
Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2022
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are long-anticipated days for retail lovers in the US, the UK and other countries all over the world. Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States and around the world. Many stores offer highly promoted sales on Black Friday and open very early to queues of people. Black Friday has routinely been the […]
Everything You Need To Know About International SEO
International SEO deals with offering optimised content for multiple languages or multiple locations worldwide. It focuses on optimising content for different languages for the search engines. With a proper multilingual SEO strategy, people in different countries will find your website for their market in their native language. If you want to target countries with similar […]
SEO vs PPC
Everyone wants their website to rank as highly as possible when people search for terms relevant to their business. This goes without saying. Not only does this mean we are more likely to generate more traffic, but good search engine optimisation (SEO) and pay per click (PPC) will always generate more enquiries and sales. PPC […]
All You Need To Know About TikTok for WooCommerce
TikTok for WooCommerce is now available! It gives your store a platform to reach one billion plus active users on the world’s fastest-growing advertising channel. You can sync your catalogue, create videos, and track performance without leaving your dashboard. No matter the size of your business or the type of products you sell, building your […]
Dexterous Designs’ Print Services and Recent Projects
At Dexterous Designs, we take vital steps into account when helping create the best quality print marketing for our clients. We make sure that your materials and designs match the existing company branding guidelines, alongside: format, bleed, colour, image quality, DPI (Dots Per Inch), and PPI (Pixels Per Inch). We have creative, professional, and expert […]
New Somerset Support Hospitality Grant Available!
A new hospitality support grant is scheduled to be made available from the 6th of January and will be open to applications for 14 days until 22nd January. The new grant will be available from the South Somerset District Council and will be funded by the Additional Restriction Grant Fund. The South Somerset District Council are offering this […]
5 Common Myths About eCommerce Web Designers
Having a great product range is only one of the many factors that contribute to building a strong online presence for an eCommerce business. Though it can be overlooked, your website’s design and user experience can make or break the initial success of your site. For the best results, your first port of call should […]
What makes a good eCommerce web design company?
Finding the right web design company can be a daunting task for business owners looking to create a site. With countless options available, it can be hard to know what to look for. So to help, we’ve highlighted some of the key factors that make up a good eCommerce web designer. An extensive portfolio As […]
Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are long-anticipated days for retail lovers in the US, the UK and other countries all over the world. Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States and around the world. Many stores offer highly promoted sales on Black Friday and open very early to queues of people. Black Friday has routinely been the busiest shopping day […]
E-Sports Sim Racing CRS GT3 Sprint Cup Result
A few weeks ago, we announced that we are now involved with E-Sports Sim Racing Events and we are sponsoring drivers in various British GT and Global E-Sports competitions. One of our drivers, Ian Hall speaks on his most recent race… “Debrief from the final night of the CRS GT3 Sprint Cup… So, the night was set up as 2 […]
Our Brand-New Company Video
We are proud to release our brand-new company video. Over the last few weeks, Joe, our resident Videographer and Adobe Premiere Pro expert, has been hard at work utilising his video creative skills to conceptualise and create this energetic and professional company video for us. We are super proud to be highlighting our range of services in this high-quality media, such […]
Happy World Wide Web Day!
Each year on the 1st of August is World Wide Web Day! It is an international celebration dedicated to web browsing – the online activity that gives you informational access to the entire world. The World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 at the CERN Centre in Geneva, Switzerland, as a way for him to communicate with co-workers via […]
Our Brand-New Car!
A few weeks ago, we returned to the Kia Garage in Taunton, to upgrade our car to a Stonic 2. We were helped by David Williams, who was knowledgeable and professional throughout the whole experience. The garage has looked after us for 4 years, so we had no hesitation in signing up again for another term with the new car. It is so refreshing […]
Dexterous’ Website Hosting, Support and Maintenance Services
Having strong, reliable and consistent website hosting, support and maintenance is a vital component to maintaining the speed, user experience, security, reliability and the foundation of good search engine optimisation for your website. Any downtime could mean lost revenue, and the security of your data is of paramount importance. Website Loading Speed is one of the measures of how Google will see your site and give it credit or ranking credibility, so this is […]
Free and Effective Ways to Improve your SEO
The highest-converting, most valuable and profitable traffic to your website comes from Google’s organic (and free) listings. That is why it is so important to be near the top of your Google search, because if you aren’t then you won’t be noticed nearly as much as you would be if you were at the top. […]
The Benefits of e-Commerce
Over the past year, while shops have been shut, e-Commerce sites have been both the only source of shopping for customers and the only way businesses have been able to sell these goods. E-commerce’s share of global retail trade rose from 14% in 2019 to about 17% in 2020. There are many benefits of e-Commerce websites, but with every new phase of e-Commerce, the customer expectations on […]
Dexterous Helping Businesses Get Ready for a Post-COVID Summer
On Monday 17th May, indoor hospitality and indoor entertainment, including cinemas, museums, and children’s play areas, reopened. With this, all remaining outdoor entertainment reopened and some larger events, like conferences, theatre performances, concerts, and sports events are now taking place, but restriction on the number of attendees remains as set out in the roadmap. Organised adult sport and exercise classes […]
The Timeless Effectiveness of Print Marketing
In an age of technology, print marketing remains prominent and effective for businesses. It gives businesses the opportunity to reach out to their community/target consumer, whether it’s through posting flyers or personally handing out business cards. Not everyone uses the internet, so print reaches all ages, specifically the older generation. Printing separates your business from the internet world, where people are more likely to remember something they’ve physically read, rather than virtually. Producing print materials allows for creative […]
Pay Per Click: Helping Your Business Build an Effective Paid Media Campaign
Pay Per Click (PPC) is an advertising model that lets advertisers (you) place ads on an advertisement platform (like Google) and pay the host of the platform when your ad is clicked. It is used to drive traffic to websites, specifically webpages that are advertising a service or product. An effective paid media campaign is all about targeting correctly, reviewing and reporting metrics, and then altering the campaign based […]
The Process and Importance of Email Marketing
Email remains the main source of communication with customers. So, in terms of using emails as a marketing strategy it is the most reliable pipeline to your customers, rather than websites and socials, because you are directly sending them to your subscribers/customers, while being able to track it on a person specific basis. This being said, your website and […]
E-Newsletter: Staying Connected With Our Customers
E-Newsletters keep subscribers up to date with industry and company news, in a way that helps both parties stay connected with each other. E-Newsletters create a community feel to your business, which builds interest and trust with your customers. They give your business an opportunity to sum up their weekly news/achievements, while advertising your services and offers. Like Trustpilot reviews, […]
Trustpilot: The Importance of Reviews
The best way to bring in new customers is through the experiences of your past customers. Building a strong portfolio of reviews is essential to bringing in new business, with 63% of shoppers being more likely to purchase your product when you have online reviews in place (MyCommerce.com). The particular review platform that we, at Dexterous Designs, use is Trustpilot. It is “a digital platform that […]
Schemes in Somerset To Help Build Your Business
Last week, we wrote about the Government Restart Grant, so it’s only fitting to focus on the workshops and schemes that Somerset West and Taunton specifically offer, both post-COVID-19 related and not. There are several support schemes to help local start-up businesses in Somerset, and after the year businesses have had (particularly small ones) we thought it a good idea to highlight some of the schemes on offer […]
How Is the Government Helping to Restart Businesses Post-COVID-19?
In the past year, COVID-19 has had a huge impact on small businesses all over the UK. Scrolling down our TikTok FYP, we’ve seen those miracle cupcake businesses being born from people’s own homes, but the reality of it is many businesses, big and small, have been negatively affected by the pandemic. A report in September 2020 (before the second and third lockdowns) by Simply Business, found that 67% […]
How Will the Google Page Experience Update Impact Your Website?
Google’s long-anticipated page experience algorithm update is landing in May 2021, with a more a structured, data-collecting and “user centric” approach. What is Page Experience? Page experience impacts rankings, how users interact with your website, and their overall experience of it. It includes Google Search signals such as mobile friendliness, safe-browsing, HTTPS and intrusive interstitial guidelines. The new update will also include, metrics in Google’s Web Vitals, […]
Getting the most from third party rating and reviews services
You’d be hard-pressed to find a business that doesn’t see the value in ratings, reviews, and testimonials. When you’re looking to book a holiday or a restaurant I imagine TripAdvisor is always one of the Google results you end on and you can bet your life that the owner is all over it as a […]
How do I measure website traffic?
Before we start talking about how to measure website traffic we should probably explain what ‘Website Traffic’ is… Website traffic is essentially just the users/visitors to a specific website. We usually tend to measure this in ‘visits’ or ‘sessions’ and this helps to give a great indication of your websites online presence and how many […]
What are the best ways to advertise my business?
Businesses need to make a good first impression. Whether you prefer printed or digital material, everyone accepts that if you don’t put yourself out there, your business will never get noticed. So, do enough customers know about you? In this age of social media marketing, there is no such thing as enough advertising. Your business […]
The reasons why e-newsletters are so useful
An e-newsletter can help a business to stay in the limelight of their clients. Whether you are currently working with a customer, trying to expand your client base or trying to do new work for old clients, an e-newsletter can remind your customers of the great work you did for them. What are you waiting […]
Should I invest in e-Marketing?
Advertising is everything in a business’s survival nowadays. Whether that’s pop-up adverts on Google pages or a newsletter sent out to all of your clients, you would be amazed at the benefits that e-marketing can bring. So why wait? Find out how we can help advertise your business today! In a report conducted earlier this […]
What is the most popular colour for design?
When browsing through the web you will probably notice that one colour sticks out more than any other – that colour is blue. Go and Google something, then take a look at your Facebook news-feed, then go check out Twitter, now take a look at LinkedIn. you should notice a very obvious pattern, there is […]
The new Dexterous Designs branded car!
Look out for the New Dexterous Designs Car in Taunton, Somerset and across the South West! It’s been a fantastic journey growing our business in the last 3+ years, and as we continue to recruit and move from strength to strength in our market, we are extremely proud to have recently taken the plunge to […]
Resources for customer retention
Another fantastic piece on Customer Retention, this time it’s Gregory Cioiti. Gregory is the Marketing Director of Helpscout. This article explains customer loyalty, something everyone in business needs to take seriously. We all know that earning customer loyalty is an uphill battle, but it is always going to be worth the effort There is a […]
