Marketing

Welcome

by Kev on 19 July, 2010

Scribbleit is a UK based web design and hosting company run by Kevin Partner. Scribbleit develops applications for clients and also develops its own web applications and ecommerce sites. PassYourTheory, MakingYourOwnCandles and MicrobusinessEntrepreneur are all Scribbleit developments.

FixedPriceWebsite.co.uk

Scribbleit has created a Fixed Price Website Service that will allow small business owners and others to have a fully custom designed site built by using WordPress technology and hosted on our space with built-in webmastering services for a fixed development price followed by a low cost monthly hosting and webmastering fee. We’re limiting the number of clients for this service and spaces are filling quickly so if you have a small business and want a new website (whether you have one at present or not), time’s running out!

I’ve been a Contributing Editor of PC Pro Magazine since 1996 and am also the author of How to set up an online business, a complete guide to planning, building and marketing a profitable web business idea: it even includes methods of ensuring that your idea will make money. Order it from Amazon.

Follow Kevin on Twitter at kevpartner for all the latest technology and internet marketing news, and some undisguised grumpiness.

We use BigCommerce, by far and away the best online ecommerce solution we’ve found.

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Making Your Own Candles shop launches

by Kev on 11 November, 2009

Our latest commercial venture www.MakingYourOwnCandles.co.uk has launched in time for Christmas. This site/business was created as part of a project for PCPro (or which more in due course) and offers easy-to-use but professional quality candle making kits that anyone can use to create coloured and scented 15-hour candles.

The site was created using WordPress and is linked to a shop created using EKMPowershop’s ecommerce structure. It’ll run until Christmas, at which point we’ll evaluate whether to run it as an ongoing business.

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How to buy a used car

November 5, 2009

Somewhat off-topic, I’ll admit, but I’ve worked with Automotive clients for years helping to teach them how to sell properly so perhaps I’m well placed to help you get the right deal for you. Having just bought a used Toyota Verso, here are my practical observations: Choose your car before you go to the dealer [...]

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Safebuy

October 8, 2009

Safebuy, the online accreditation scheme for web traders, is currently down. Type www.safebuy.org.uk into your browser and you’ll get “No web site is configured at this address”. No warning. Charming: so my potential customers who click on the logo will see that message and assume I’m taking the mickey when the whole point of the [...]

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Posterous

September 9, 2009

I’m finding Posterous an excellent blogging tool: it allows me to post to all my blogs and my Twitter feed with a single email. I’ve now discovered that I can even ensure the entry goes to the right category in my blog by simply “tagging” the email. In this case: ((tag: marketing)) in the subject [...]

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Yahoo!

September 8, 2009

Just signing up for a new yahoo mail account. Am being asked for the name of a relative as a security question. Problem is, they require four characters or more and the person concerned has a three character name! Genius. Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous Use Facebook to Comment on this Post

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Autoresponders

September 8, 2009

Just completed Ch36 of book on starting a web business. Subject: autoresponders. Would you believe how hard it is to find a good autoresponder sequence covering autoresponders? Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous Use Facebook to Comment on this Post

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Police-speak

August 25, 2009

Just heard on radio: “a propensity for people we think of who are involved in gang culture to lower their age of entry” = “Gang members are younger now” Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous Use Facebook to Comment on this Post

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The Age of the Dinosaurs

August 6, 2009

Talk about trying to bolt the door after the horse has bolted. The news that the Sun etc are going to charge for access to their websites from next year had me nearly falling off my chair with laughter. It’s the stupidest idea I’ve heard in a long time and has precisely zero chance of [...]

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How not to get people to help

July 28, 2009

Got this email today from Moneywise magazine: Your opinion is vital to us as our aim for the website is to ensure that you have all the information you need presented in the right way for you. They want me to complete a survey, spending my own time and helping them to make more money. [...]

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