News and Views from Real Point
Record number of start-up businesses in Coventry in 2013
Make sure your potential customers know about you and are convinced that you can help solve their problems. After all a great product or service that no-one knows about isn’t going to help anyone and isn’t going to help grow your business.
Ian ODonnell talks on Growing your business through Social Media
Video of speaking recently at a Federation of Small Businesses event in Nuneaton about making effective use of social media to help grow your business
Problems setting up administrators on Facebook pages
The process of adding administrators to a Facebook page seems to be getting increasingly complicated and unpredictable. Here’s a few tips that we have found to help.
Ian ODonnell on local and national radio
Yesterday was a busy day for our MD, Ian O’Donnell, starting with a radio interview on our local BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, followed by an interview recorded for BBC Today program on Radio 4 which was broadcast this morning.
5 Ways Twitter can help your business get more sales
We thought we’d share just a few of the ways that developing a strong Twitter presence can help you.
The Ridiculously Exhaustive Social Media Design Blueprint Infographic
With social media changing so fast, it can be hard to get your head round all the different platforms, know how to approach each of them and how to make the most of what they offer. It would be great if all the platforms used the same image dimensions so you could...
Finding a mobile mechanic, how we helped
If you’re looking for a Mobile Mechanic in Coventry or Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, then the website we launched a month ago for AW Autotek has made that a bit easier.
Ignore Social Media for SEO at your peril – infographic
This great research based infographic was recently produced by Tasty Placement, demonstrating the importance of social media in helping your websites perform well in search engines, unsurprisingly Google’s own social platform, Google Plus, generates the best results
From design to search, changing trends in online
Researching search trends recently on the range of services Real Point offers showed an interesting trend. Since 2007 interest has shifted from website creation (web design) to website visibility with the growth of interest in social media and SEO. Which just proves...
Facebook Announces New Look for News Feed
Facebook has announced a new version of the News Feed "designed to reduce clutter and focus more on stories from the people you care about". Inspired by the mobile version and apps, the new Facebook has the same look and feel across the mobile, tablet or web versions...
Why focus on local SEO?
Being number one on google nationwide or even worldwide for your business type and service is always going to be difficult, time consuming and costly and unless you have national reach, will be unlikely to deliver return on investment. So getting your local search optimisation right is vital.
Coventry Telegraph interview Ian ODonnell
Our MD, Ian O'Donnell was recently interviewed by Coventry Telegraph for their Business Monday feature, talking about how Real Point Design started out and why he believes that it's a great time to start a business when you're young.
Get on with social media
Alongside Real Point's website design and online marketing services, we also run a range of social media courses at our office in Hampton-in-Arden. Each course focuses on a different social media platform and gives a detailed look at how social media can help grow...
Out and about at B2B Expo
On Tuesday 15th Jan 2013, Real Point attended the B2B Expo, a free networking event organised by the Coventry Telegraph, the Belgrade Theatre and the Federation of Small Businesses. If you visited our stand at the Belgrade or attended the 'Winning business using...
New website for Coventry and Kenilworth Chiropractor
So when Andrea Soonius, a chiropractor in Kenilworth and Coventry asked Real Point to help her develop her website, I certainly understood the value of chiropractic treatment and Andrea is passionate about just how much it can help from her own personal story.
The ins and outs of building email marketing lists
The heart of the issue of what is also a legal requirement in this country, that all email marketing should be to “opt in” only recipients. I’m a big believer in that principle, but what counts as “opt in”?
Putting the barriers up
I know, I know, anyone who’s talked to us about websites know’s that we always talk about designing your website to make it easy for your customers, don’t put barriers in their way.
Have a great bank holiday weekend
Just a quick post to wish everyone a great bank holiday weekend.
Giving Young Driver Website some extra Vroom
riving lessons for under17s? What are you on about? That’s the normal response when we talk about a client who we’ve worked with over the last couple of years building and maintaing their website and online booking facilities.
New website design launches with a song
Real Point were recently asked by RantProd, a midlands based music production company, to design and build their new website. Nothing unusual there you might say, but it's literally launched with a fanfare. The new site went live on Friday, coinciding with the launch...