Fashion online: Some things change, some stay the same
This post picks up the thread I started when I posted on what I considered Crimes Against Flashion. In that post, I looked at the websites of Chanel (no change), Balenciaga (change!), Lanvin (minor change) and John Galliano (change!). Although I didn’t cover their site in my original post, what reminded me to revisit this … Continue reading
Staking your claim(s)
I am very torn about this post. One the one hand, even if from the outside an online presence (in any format) seems like the shiniest and most beautiful jewellery box you have ever see, I want you to understand that anything can be a pandora’s box of timesuck and effort and there are elements … Continue reading
Basics: There is more than one way to peel an orange
© Nicole Paton | Dreamstime Stock Photos As a wet behind the ears creative SMB and online babe in the woods, I would suggest there is one more thing you probably need to have internalised before you start on the path of your great big online adventure. In addition to: understanding the importance in knowing … Continue reading
Basics: The tells
There are tiny little tells that give away what you are looking at when you view a website, much like there are signs on a poker player’s face indicating the hand they are playing. These tells can be very important in terms of you being able to communicate what it is you want/need from your … Continue reading
Basics: This is not a website
One of the worst phrases you can ever utter as a SMB who doesn’t have an online presence, but who wants one is: I need a website… Unless you have undertaken some analysis of your: core business activities core customer requirements from you, your base requirements for an online presence, and your planned future actions … Continue reading
Basics: Know thyself and know thine targets
No business has ever: discovered themselves (as in the finding themselves sense, not the ‘gosh darn someone has already bought the domain (aka web address / URL) or staked a claim to the online real-estate I was hoping for’ or the ‘oh wow, someone has written something good/bad about me’ senses), or identified their core … Continue reading
Crimes against flashion
Today I am going to start talking about a subject dear to my heart and my credit card, fashion. It is such a unique set of industries that intertwine in a symbotic relationship – some purely creative, so overwhelmingly commercial. And the online presence of the many areas of businesses which make up that spectrum … Continue reading
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