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Crash course in SEO

May 26, 2020
With Hope Marshall – Support Local As part of our series of specialist workshops during lock-down Hope Marshall joined us to talk about SEO to support local businesses improve their digital presence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_aBkTmivDM&t=19s No 1 Top Tip…..Name your images. Depending on your website provider this can be done via the alt tag or on your desktop before you upload to your website by renaming the image name. It normally defaults to something like JPEG-0099. This is the bit you need to change.

City Healthcare Solutions have produced a FREE user guide for creating a healthy work environment at home.

April 16, 2020
James Burgess, Kent based business owner of City Health Solutions has produced a free guide to help everyone working from home during this period of lock-down. With many of us all now working from the kitchen table, or a make shift office in the spare room, have we really thought about our health and the impact this way of working could have on us. FREE Guide Here James BurgessDC, MSc, LRCC, ICCSP James Burgess "My intention is simple, to help people working from home keep a healthy body, and healthy mind, throughout these uncertain times!" To find out more about City…

Local companies join force to ensure businesses across the county stay connected.

April 10, 2020
JK Online, Clockwork Moggy and Dragon Co-Working, all based in Medway, set up Together Self Isolated Business Networking on Facebook. In just under three weeks, the community has gathered more than 1,000 followers. One of those behind the network, Karl Cowell, set up his business JK Online, which offers digital marketing solutions, with best friend Joe Bennett two years ago….. Read more about what they have been doing HERE…..

digitalbeans launches YourLocal.Delivery

April 1, 2020
Free website to support local businesses in Kent stay in business digitalbeans, a leading digital agency based in Canterbury, has launched YourLocal.Delivery, a free website solution which will help local businesses in Kent who are impacted by the Covid-19 situation and unable to service their customers. This free of charge service from digitalbeans will allow restaurants, toy shops, art shops, garden centres, small convenience stores and those on Kent’s high-streets to launch their own online store, by signing up to the free website solution.  YourLocal.Delivery is a swift solution for many local businesses who would not have been able to…

Coronavirus – Where are we now? Updated 27 March 2020

March 27, 2020
Jack Sales of TN Accountancy takes a look at the measures announced so far. Support for Businesses The government has put together a package of measures to support public services, people and businesses through this period of disruption caused by COVID-19. This includes a package of measures to support businesses including: a Coronavirus Job Retention Schemedeferring VAT and Income Tax paymentsa Self-employment Income Support Schemea Statutory Sick Pay relief package for small and medium sized businesses (SMEs)a 12-month business rates holiday for all retail, hospitality, leisure and nursery businesses in Englandsmall business grant funding of £10,000 for all business in…

How to Successfully Start a Local Business

June 29, 2016
How to Successfully Start a Local Business Like anything good in life, owning your own business comes with its highs and lows. It can be an extremely rewarding experience – one that may sort you out with a job that you’ll enjoy for the rest of your life – but it isn’t without its struggles. One of the things that people struggle to get to grips with the most is the initial start-up process. Even if it’s something you’ve done in the past, it can prove to be a tricky and sometimes overwhelming task. Even more so with the sheer amount…