Were moving… To Agile Project Management

After moving to the big smoke of Richmond we are now moving… to Agile Project Management.

Agile is based around the idea of iterative and incremental development, turning projects around faster; smaller releases more often. It allows our clients to plan long term strategies with us; but giving us the flexibility to adapt to their requirements if the need arises.

An example is having a single project being a 3 month build and release. The client is looking to piggyback on great exposure, either within the sector or themselves; 3 months later the exposure is gone and they are releasing into a flat market! If we had …

We are now a Tableau Software Partner – the best for business intelligence tools

We are proud to be a Tableau Software Partner – the best of breed business intelligence tool

Tableau data visualisation solutions

We chose to partner with Tableau Software as they provide a superb and affordable business intelligence and data analysis and data visualisation software.

Why Tableau as a business intelligence tool?

Tableau is an award-winning business intelligence tool/software providing fast data analysis and superb business dashboards.

The visualisation engine is based on breakthrough technology from Stanford University that lets you drag & drop to analyse data. You can connect to data in a few clicks, then visualise and create interactive dashboards …

Designing the Right Ecommerce Websites

What makes the right ecommerce websites depends on the end user requirements of the client. Magento can serve both really simple ecommerce websites and sites that require more flexibility. Magento integrates beautifully with PayPal, Google Checkout and SagePay. All are easy to integrate and get the job done securely.

More complex ecommerce websites based for example on Magento give the client a greater flexibility in terms of how his or her site is run. This platform allows sophisticated open source content management, allowing you to build ecommerce websites that reflect more accurately the brand persona and environment of a …

January 27, 2012

Mark Haller, founder of LogicSpot via Podcast

A while ago I was approached by a fantastic company based in the City called Busibuddies  - a business platform and media network that essentially exposes and connects business with each other.

I attended their office in Lloyds Building - a building I used to walk past every day when working with Allianz … and was interviewed for a podcast that has just been published today!

You can visit their site and get to the podcast here

See what you think.  It was extremely energised and dynamic – I was …

January 27, 2012

How to work less and do more – 10 tips to boost your productivity

Do you work effectively?

  • Have you ever felt the whole day just passed away and you did nothing you were supposed to do?
  • When the task is supposed to take you 2 hours you still can not accomplish it throughout the whole day?
  • When you create a TO DO list all the tasks just stay there unticked?

 

If you said yes to the 3 questions above  you might have a big problem with productivity.

Does it always have to be this way?

The hard part is that, if you did this for many years it became ‘the way you do it’. But if you are aware …

January 23, 2012

Setting up IE6, IE7, IE8 and IE9 properly for website testing

Testing your website/application in different Internet Explorer versions is a real challenge. To SEE what the website looks like, there are some great websites to show how your site looks in different browsers. Some of them are:

However, the above will show you how it looks, but not how it WORKS – you can’t use or interact with the website at all – it’s just a screenshot – so for quick visuals, it’s good – but these fall short for us nearly ever time.

How do I test better on my …

January 20, 2012

Top 10 list for working mummies/ mumpreneurs

Hey hey

Being a mummy is hard enough but being a working mummy or a mumpreneur, especially when the baby is very young, is just madness!

I thought I’d share my tips with you and what kept me sane… This is more for women who are planning their pregnancy and are not sure how they can combine it with work or running a business but maybe anyone will get a nugget for themselves :) That’s the intention anyway!

1. Save up and reduce your costs

Running a business is stressful… You need to keep your eye on everything. Is your product/ service still …

Large Scale Web Design London

Web design London carried out for larger companies has a distinctive set of goals. Your site design may need to work for multiple offices or teams that work in more than one location. Cloud functionality to share inter and intra company data – reports, spreadsheets, minutes and other key resources – may also be required.
Larger scale web design London works just the same as all web design. You start with a conversation with the client explaining about business and their goals, their current experience and where they would like to be in future – and you grow your solution …

Accurate SEO for Ecommerce

SEO services London providing SEO for ecommerce are looking specifically at directing web users into a buying action. One of the biggest new tools in the organic SEO model is the Google plus one.

Google’s plus one works in an SEO for ecommerce context because the plus one technology is directly applied to consumer behaviour. When SEO services London arrange social media presence for an ecommerce site, they can get lost in the wider social context of the recommendations and chatter in the sphere: but when you go specifically for the plus one, you are putting your SEO for ecommerce …

Mystery shopping – interesting discoveries

This was an interesting little project for me and I thought I’d share…

Our strategy advisor kept on telling us about the importance of superb customer service and continuous improvement in this area but also about knowing our competitors, what they offer, how they engage, what they charge, etc. We thought it would be rather fitting to experience how potential clients are treated by other companies in our field.

I have an old e-commerce site that needs re-vamping and I have submitted a request for quotation to about 10 different competitors in our field. The results were quite interesting:

  1. Most of the …