The Village Websmith - Web Design & Development in Your Area
Target your message with pinpoint accuracy
It's no good sitting and waiting for customers to come to your web site for the latest news. By building and using a mailing list, you can make sure your news reaches people first. The workshop covers:
- Writing great newsletter copy
- Maximising response by selecting your audience
- Keeping it relevant - choosing who sees what
- Growing your list and seeking referrals
- Keeping it legal - dancing in the data protection minefield
Abenhall is a tiny, ancient village in a secluded quiet valley near Mitcheldean. The parish includes the settlement of Plump Hill, on the Mitcheldean to Cinderford Road as it climbs into the high Forest.
Once part of the Westbury Hundred (which was known as Dene at the time of the 1086 Doomsday book) Abenhall is on the Flaxley to Mitcheldean Road. Originally a mining and iron making centre, it is notable for its 14th century Church of St Michael, which is built of local red sandstone and has excellent contemporary carvings relating to the Forest of Dean's industries. These include a shield bearing the arms of the Freeminers on the west wall and the fabulous mid -15th century octagonal font, that has tools of miners and metalworkers incised on its St Michaels at Abenhall sides.
St. Michael's Church - originally built as a chapel of ease, the church was expanded in the 14th century to include nave, south aisle and tower. The arms of the Freeminers can be seen on the south side of the tower and on the 18th century font. St. Michael's Church - Abenhall is 1.5 km south of Mitcheldean and is set in beautiful surroundings on the edge of the Forest. Old Parish baptism, marriage and burial registers, from 1596, are stored at the Gloucestershire Record Office. For more information, please call us on the number shown, or click in the header of any page to email Abenhall-forest-of-dean@villagewebsmith.co.uk.
- Website
- Web design
- Search engine optimisation
- SEO
- Webvertising
- Advertising
- Marketing
- Promotion
- Graphic design
- Branding
- Brochures
- Exhibition graphics
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Wedensday Website WorkshopsOK, so your website is up and running, all you have to do now is sit back and wait for the calls, right? Well, not exactly. Like any form of advertising, your web site needs to be promoted and managed. The message needs to be fresh, topical, powerful and in the public eye.
This takes effort. It takes imagination. It takes forethought and consideration. Luckily, there is a lot you can do yourself, particularly with Webinthebox® that can help to keep the wheels turning without spending a fortune.
In order to help this process, you can now join in an online masterclass in 12 modules based on real questions asked by real customers over the 20 years of Websmithery here. Each module lasts an hour and delegates will be provided with course material to act as an aide memoire as well as a 'homework' assignment each week, with online assessment and advice.
Are you a morning person, or an evening person? With only five spaces per workshop available, you can choose a time of day that best suits your workload. There will be a slot in normal business hours, and a slot in the early evening after work, so you can choose which group to join according to the shape of your day.
Give us the tools and we will finish the job Every module includes a recommended list of resources and tools to help you. Most of these are available free online, and are the tools that we use ourselves in the Websmithy. You don't have to spend a fortune to get reliable, easy to use, fast software.
Modules based on real world needs Over the years here at the Websmithy, a strong pattern of what our customers want to know about managing their online presence has been established. By going back over the answers to questions and concerns, the following list of modules has been created to provide the most relevant and important information.
- Understanding audiences - human and robot
- SEO - What it really means and how to DIY
- Layout and graphics - their importance in framing and showcasing your message
- Photographs - choosing and assigning
- Photographs - what's in a name?
- Your message - how you say what you say
- Your message - uploading and shaping
- Your message - grammar and spelling do matter, here's why
- Non-web promotion - customers are everywhere
- Social media - use it to your advantage
- Outgoing contact - fly fishing vs ledgering
- CREAM - the virtuous spiral of ongoing improvement
Book early and save The price of registration for the full course is just £240, payable in advance, but for bookings before August 15th you can claim an 'Early Bird Saver' rate of £180. Follow this link to the booking page to check availability and claim your place.
Abercraf is well known for these attractions: Waterfalls caves and close by the National Red Kite Centre.
Abercraf is also close to our headquarters in Shirenewton, Monmouthshire, which helps us to maintain our policy of only working face to face with customers to make sure they get the best results quickly when writing the content for their web sites. This is a much quicker method of establishing what aspects of a business are the most promotable and getting the order of things. So, if you have a small business in Abercraf, just get in touch with the Village Websmith and experience the difference of truly personal web design for yourself. For more information, please call us on the number shown, or click in the header of any page to email Abercraf-s-wales@villagewebsmith.co.uk.
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- Web design
- Search engine optimisation
- SEO
- Webvertising
- Advertising
- Marketing
- Promotion
- Graphic design
- Branding
- Brochures
- Exhibition graphics
Fabtastic Friday
Friday is derived from a translation of the Latin 'Veneris Dies', the day of the planet Venus. Venus was the goddess of love and today is a great day to love your business. If you don't do that, how can you expect anyone else to? Look at all the great work you have done and make sure you tell everyone about it.
Sometimes it is too easy to take what you do for granted. You always do your best to make customers happy and leave them with a great job done. Very often they will tell others which is one of the best feelings in business. Do you manage that process though? Do you encourage and remind people to refer you? Do you make follow up calls months, even years down the road to make sure customers are happy? Satisfied customers can be your best sales team so use them to the maximum.
How about your online presence? Do you regularly publish case studies of sales and work done? Do you write a 'blog to highlight snippets of news? Do you promote your work fully through social media and the search engines? This is all easily done if you have time yourself. If you don't have the time, tools or inclination do make regular updates, you will find that the Village Websmith can offer easily affordable programmes of regular 'drip-feed' information to keep you in front of your buying public.
To find out more, call us on 0203 239 0350 or click in the header of any page to send us an email.
Aberdare is well known for these attractions: Country park fabulous indoor market and Aberdare Park home of historic motorcycle road races.
Aberdare is also close to our headquarters in Shirenewton, Monmouthshire, which helps us to maintain our policy of only working face to face with customers to make sure they get the best results quickly when writing the content for their web sites. This is a much quicker method of establishing what aspects of a business are the most promotable and getting the order of things. So, if you have a small business in Aberdare, just get in touch with the Village Websmith and experience the difference of truly personal web design for yourself. For more information, please call us on the number shown, or click in the header of any page to email Aberdare-s-wales@villagewebsmith.co.uk.
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- Web design
- Search engine optimisation
- SEO
- Webvertising
- Advertising
- Marketing
- Promotion
- Graphic design
- Branding
- Brochures
- Exhibition graphics
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