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5 simple tips for making your website a great experience

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 04:17:19 -0700

Your website should be helping you put money into that till.....Side note; I'm a consumer and I like to look on a website before I choose, if I can check menu and price and ethos for a resturant before I go then I'll choose them. If I can book my legwax on a website, I'll choose that one for ease.

So here are 5 simple tips for making your website a great experience for your customers:

1. Act as your brand, it should showcase your ethos, your essence.

When we say brand we don't just mean colour scheme. What price point are you? Do clients come to you for fashion colours? Or natural lived in hair? Do you specialise in ......It has to match the salon. If we took screen shots from the website, we should be able to hang them up on the wall of the salon.

2. Let it work as your secretary.

Your website can be another working member of staff. List faq that's you get asked frequently on dms. Link to a Google my business map. For directions. Have the client journey there so they know what to expect. The patch testing policy- booking procedure, deposit, cancellation policy.

3. Booking system or some sort of calender.

To allow the website to work for you. Train your clients to book boa your website using the booking system and it cuts down your admin time....Read More

12 Tips To Improve Your Website

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 03:50:14 -0700

Want 12 awesome tips that will improve your websites visitors experience, lead to more sales and greater return rates; which are also easy to implement - well here they are:

1. Add a Value Proposition

The value proposition, or mission statement, tells the visitor what you do and why you do it.

Put your value proposition on your home page, in your headline if possible. Add it to your blog or about page. Let the visitors know exactly what they will be getting if they come to you, buy your product, subscribe to your newsletter or read your blog.

Your message should include:

[our company] is where

[our audience] gets

[what information] that offers

[what benefit].

2. Website Navigation

The navigation on your website serves two purposes;

it helps the user find what they’re looking for
it helps your search engine rankings

COVID19 - KEEP YOUR BUSINESS (AND YOURSELF) HEALTHY

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:38:42 -0700

This is number 3 in the series of our COVID19, quarantine life BLOG.

I hope you are all prospering in which ever state of lock-down, social distancing, movement control order or whatever it's called where you are.

For those of you that missed our last few blogs; like many of you we have closed our highstreet business due to COVID19 and like you because of this virus; our family is in quarantine.

For many business owners and entrepreneurs like us, right now is their time to shine, and they might walk away from this with a new skill learnt, their marketing finally under control and the next years projections ready to go - for others each day may be a routine of Netflix and pajamas.

Which ever end of the scale you are at; I want to tell you - that's ok.

The future of our business is uncertain, and for some the overwhelm of it all will be too much to handle, but as a fellow business owner you know as well as I do, even under normal circumstances we face stress and challenges every single day, and we handle it - so I am confident that we (you and I) can come out of this healthy and thriving.

We are fortunate to have multiple digital businesses to ride this storm but the future of our business is still uncertain.

At Weblocs we are constantly developing our business and working on new features to respond to trends and challenges.

For the whole of April we have added a voucher shop feature to any website order, totally free. Read More

COVID19 - IT'S TIME TO THINK LONG TERM

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 02:30:17 -0700

We are back, one week on, for another update to quarantine life. With a 4 and 6 year old we are finding ingenious ways to entertain our impatient co-workers, whilst they frantically destroy our limited supplies - so nothing has changed there then!

For those of you that missed our last newsletter; like you we have closed our salon business due to COVID19 and like you because of this virus; our family is in quarantine.

We are fortunate to have multiple digital businesses to ride this storm but the future of our Salon business is still uncertain.

As an entrepreneur though, you know as well as I do, even under normal circumstances, business is uncertain anyway - so I am confident that we (you and I) can come out of this healthy and thriving.

At Weblocs we are constantly developing our business and working on new features to respond to trends and challenges.

Right now we have added video streaming as an addon website feature, this will help new and existing clients to stay engaged with their clients online - even if their business is currently closed.

However this blog post isn't about us, its about all of us. We have developed our businesses to work successfully without us being physically any where near it, or our clients - we have essentially been social distancing ourselves for years :)

So we thought we would take this opportunity to try our best to provide some clear concise information, and useful links in the following blog - to help prevent business owners like you and me...Read More

COVID 19 - HOW WILL YOUR BUSINESS SURVIVE?

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:43:36 -0700

(My daughter, ready for quarantine in Malaysia)
Like many business owners in the UK we have closed our salon business due to COVID19 and like many of you out there, because of this virus; our family is in quarantine.
Perhaps, unlike you - we have been isolated now for 12 days in Malaysia, having traveled ahead of it's spread from Vietnam and Singapore and so have witnessed first hand the effect this pandemic is having on communities and businesses worldwide.
We are fortunate to have multiple digital businesses to ride this storm but the future of our Salon business is still uncertain.
As an entrepreneur though, you know as well as I do, even under normal circumstances, business is uncertain anyway - so I am confident that we (you and I) can come out of this healthy and thriving.
At Weblocs we are constantly developing our business and working on new features to respond to trends and challenges.
Right now we have added video streaming as an addon website feature, this will help new and existing clients to stay engaged with their clients online - even if their business is currently closed.
However this blog post isn't about us, its about all of us. We have developed our businesses to work successfully without us being physically any where near it, or our clients - we have essentially been social distancing ourselves for years :)
So we thought we would take this opportunity to try our best to provide some clear concise...Read More

Little Big Voyagers - Digital Nomads

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:47:37 -0700

Us.
Worldschooling, adventure seeking, digital nomad family - with the wanderlust gene. We sold everything back home to start a journey of adventure, and exploration on the other side of the world.
The beginning of our voyage is Asia, but that's as far as our plans go. Feel free to follow our blog, and share our adventures as we discover them.
Our Journey.
Before kids, before "us" we led very different paths.
I was a well traveled child, enjoying holidays all over the world every year. Emma was not, with frequent train journeys to Scotland forming her only holiday.
When we first met I had hardly touched public transport, having never even been on a bus whereas she didn't have a driving license and used them frequently.
It was how we met, that inspired our continual love for adventure.
I was fundraising for an expedition to be the first rowing boat to cross the Indian ocean, from Australia to Mauritius. To cut a long story short; we crossed successfully, got all the records and I proposed to Emma on the finish line.
Emma had supported and encouraged me from the moment we met and traveled the same emotional journey I did and, although I never again entered a country in such dramatic fashion; our love of exploration together had started.
Our travel at this point was still confined to the package holiday.
Where ever we were though we always found ourselves fleeing the confines of the hotel, in search of something more "real" to meet local people and explore local traditions.
Then before starting a family we wanted to do some real travel, soak up culture and learn more about the world outside of the holiday brochure (because as people without the experience of kids, we knew that would be impossible to do as parents!)
We chose a volunteering project in Iringa, Tanzania. Again a story for another time, but we loved...Read More