Early last year we helped a business called Ystrad Nurseries and Agricultural Supplies with their new logo and branding, the business has since grown and earlier this year decided it was time for a website to further promote their business. The website was completed in early May, offering Ystrad a way to attract new business and allow new customers to find them online. Ystrad offers a cafe, a post office as well as their grades furniture and tool shop. #websitecontent #websup

You've got a great website and people are finding it on google or coming through to it from a link on social media, but are you tracking your visitors? Google Analytics is a great free tool to track every single visitor and to see what pages are most popular, you can then use this data to improve your marketing or improve your website. If you are running adverts on social media then Google Analytics is great to see how these ads are performing and what links they are sending

Carwyn Jones Builders in Cardiff needed a facelift for their current website, optimising the site for mobile and desktop, clearly displaying page elements and focusing the site on imagery of the stunning projects they have completed recently. The mobile site and how it displayed on mobile was different on every page and this needed a tidy up, images were set to the same pixels on every page and the text was formatted to display correctly. The website will go through more chan

We try and meet with every business we work with, whether it be in Cardiff, Aberystwyth, Swansea or over the bridge to Bristol but sometimes it isn't that easy like with our recent website clients CatchCanon who are based in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. CatchCanon needed a new website and contacted online after seeing us on social media and online, the brief was clear and a date was set to launch the site. We set out to design a clean and modern site that would not only showcase

Insurance Centre Wales based in Aberystwyth were in need of a new website, a website that is mobile friendly and also bilingual in Welsh and English. We met with Evan at ICW earlier in 2016 when we created some artwork for various ads for his business in West Wales, the ads were a hit and the business has grown since then. Check out the site - www.icw.wales The team at ICW were really keen to have a bilingual site as the business operates in both Welsh and English, a number o

Joining the list of new websites we have completed for clients this year is Bristol based company Square Gorilla Casting, the business approached us in September to re make their current website and improve its UI and UX. The brief was set, take an existing website and copy it, but improve it! We have been asked to this a number of times for clients who want a better flow to their site on desktop and for the site to look and feel better on mobile. Like with many clients who w

Our client Morris Bros Kitchens and Bathrooms in Aberystwyth were in need of a new website, their current website was dated and they had no control over the site or its content. The brief was to completely redesign the site and content but in keeping with the current branding and colours of the recognisable business in Aberystwyth. We began with a basic design to the homepage and header of the website, somewhere that every site visitor will see and it ended to include as many

We love creating beautiful websites for clients, but they also need to have a great user experience (UX) otherwise it's likely the user will leave and never come back. We have been working with clients in Aberystwyth and Cardiff to develop new websites as well as improve their currents sites. To help us understand how websites are performing we use Google Analytics to track: 📲 Acquisition 🤔 Behaviour 👨‍👩‍👧 The Audience 📈 Conversion Our work with a local Aberystwyth

Wow, we've made it to August already in 2017... it's been a busy but enjoyable first 7 months of the year with new projects coming in on a weekly basis. As well as loving our work in video, social media and planning marketing for our clients in Cardiff and Aberystwyth; we also still love making beautiful website for businesses of any size. Like the fashion industry the trends in web design change from year to year and even month to month, good design and great user experience

We have helped countless business already in Aberystwyth with new websites, social media management, video editing and graphic design. We have met business to help them with their digital marketing to get a better and bigger reach, one of our recent clients in the Commodore Cinema in Aberystwyth. The Commodore Cinema is an Aberystwyth institution. There aren’t many people in the town who haven’t visited to watch their favourite film at this family run, independent cinema. The

Julie Grabham of JG HR Solutions first spoke to us at one of our social media workshops and since then we've helped where we can with advising on her companies digital marketing. we have given Julie advice for a number of months with digital marketing but what Julie really wanted and needed was a new brand identity and a new mobile friendly website for her business. The need Julie needed a clear brand identity for her HR business. She wanted a professional, clean and clear we

Spring time. Clean time. Have you given your home the once over yet? We’ve not got round to the house but for us at Red Squirrel Marketing it means helping our clients give their websites a refresh ready for upcoming summer campaigns. Take a look at our four simple, spring clean tips for your website this month (and believe us, they’re not as tasking as that home clean) 1. Spruce up your Google Analytics Check out your vital visitor statistics – audience engagement, number of

Where does digital marketing feature in your 2017 marketing plans? "You need to spend money to make money." But for many small and medium sized businesses this is difficult to follow - often it's a case of how to spend less and make more. Have you thought about where you'll be putting your marketing spend next year? Even when times get tough, it's important to remember how important the marketing portion of your budget is for survival. Don't ever stop promoting your business.

Dylanwad Wine is a great little wine bistro in Dolgellau (Not far from Aberystwyth). Dylan is a wine importer who travels the world to find quality, carefully sourced wine. Their beautiful, rich in heritage cafe, cellar shop and bar is situated in the centre of Dolgellau and aptly named ‘dylanwad’ meaning under the influence in Welsh. The business approached us to work with them on a new, updated, modern and mobile friendly website... We think we hit the nail on the head! www

How did you choose the colours for your website design? A recent project in website design in Aberystwyth involved a fair amount of discussion around picking the right colour palette for our client. Does red = passion and yellow = happiness? We think all that matters is what colours people actually like not necessarily their supposed meaning. A recent survey of 230 respondents by Joe Hallock had the following findings. Blue stands out as being very popular across both genders

Your website homepage is effectively your virtual front door. If a visitor doesn’t like what they see expect them to hit the ”back” button. You have about 3 – 5 seconds to grab visitors attention so make sure your homepage shows exactly what your business does in a nutshell. So what makes a website’s homepage design GREAT instead of just another website?! To start its got to look good, be easy to navigate and WORK WELL. That’s why we advise all new clients about to launch the

We’ve worked with a number of clients on developing or creating a website from scratch right across England and Wales including website design in Aberystwyth, Cardiff, Dolgellau and so on. From full concept, design and management. Our clients have seen a dramatic increase in business and brand awareness in their local area as a result of their new websites. If you still need convincing please read on… 1. Consider if your competition has a website Sales are won or lost due t

Follow these steps to produce explainer videos for your video marketing campaign that will drive traffic to your website. Are how to videos part of your social marketing? Looking to find out how you can improve them? Explainer videos help your customers and promote your product or service. Why use Explainer Videos in your Marketing? Video is one of the most powerful forms of social media content. If youre not sharing video, but your competitor is, then they have the persuasio

Do you want to know how to use Twitter Video to your advantage? Video is a great way to tell a story and grow your twitter following. Twitter video is pretty straightforward. You either record a new video from your smartphone or if you have an iPhone, upload a video you’ve already taken. Open the Twitter app, start a new tweet and touch the picture icon. Next, touch the camera icon and switch your camera to video.You have 30 seconds to capture your video. Finally come up with

Come closer and let's talk website secrets. 1. You need your own domain and hosting Invest in a serious website not a cheap blogging site that Google won’t take you seriously. Also do not point visitors to it, if it's not considered trustworthy. 2. Use original content Remember that Google’s whole purpose is to provide their customers with relevant and useful search results. The most important think you can do for your SEO (search engine optimisation) is create massivel