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First Impressions Matter!

Whether we like it or not, first impressions matter and your business website may be the first impression that someone has of your business. Clearly, it is incredibly important to get that first moment right with your potential customers. https://www.figmentagency.com/ understand that customers judge your website within 1 second of the page loading, so they strive to create that everlasting first impression that will keep people coming back to you for more. Having a professional web designer will work in your favour. The same is true of using a professional web designer for your graphics and images. I always go to a GD friend of mine who is an ace at these things.

SEO is Your Business Website Best Friend

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is one of the most useful tactics that you can use throughout your website. Basically, it helps organic traffic find your website based on keywords that match your website. So, if you want people to find you easier, think of all of the search terms that you’d use if you wanted to stumble upon your business. If you’re a photographer, for example, you’d use keywords within your website such as ‘prestige photographer’ ‘high quality photos’ and so on. Use SEO to your advantage and you’ll gain that traffic you’re after which ultimately, will turn into sales. Do your research before plunging into a half baked SEO strategy though or you’ll be disappointed with the results.

Navigation should be easy

It’s all well and good having a business website that’s intricate with sliders and pages that glide together, but if your website isn’t easy to navigate around, people will click away to find something easier. Make sure your website is simple to find and simple to use and you’ll be onto a winner. Remember that having contact information in an easy to find place will also work in your favour.

Give them Something for Nothing

Finally, one of the best bits of advice you can receive today is this: you need to give your potential customers something for nothing if you want them to stay on your website with the eventuality of buying from you. Whether that be a piece of information in the form of an article or video or even free downloadables for them to keep is up to you. Make your website somewhere people want to be. I’m still working on this part for my website!

Keep these tips in mind and your business website will thrive!

It always annoys me when I read articles on how to declutter and free up space in the home, and the tips are focused on throwing things out. Obviously, there will be a few things you can give to charity or friends, and everyone has a few items they can just get rid of. But, what if you’ve already done all of that and you still have too much clutter? You don’t want to throw your things away as they might be valuable in one way or another. Instead, here are a few easy ways you can declutter without throwing all your valuable possessions away:

Make Use of Every Room in Your ouse

It’s all too common for people to feel like they have no storage space when they actually have a lot. The secret is using every single room in your home. I’m talking about a couple of places in particular that regularly get neglected; the attic/loft and garage. If your attic is boarded up, then it’s the perfect storage room for loads of things you don’t use on a regular basis. If it isn’t, then boarding it up is such a good investment as you instantly create a storage room. The same goes for your garage; make use of the space available to neatly organise things. Here, you have a way of moving clutter out of the main rooms in your home while still keeping it nearby. So, if you do randomly need something you stored away, you can easily get it out.

Put Some Valuables in Storage

We all have a few family heirlooms or things that are either emotionally or financially valuable. Similarly, a lot of these things don’t really get used every day, and you can live without them in your home. Therefore, you can seriously declutter your interior by putting these things in storage. There are long-term storage solutions out there where you can keep things for months on end locked away in a secure room. A lot of these places offer discounts too, so check online find out if you can save money. Mainly, this idea gets rid of things that are taking up space by not being used and keeps them safe. You still have them, they’re just no longer in your home. We don’t have heirlooms sitting around but I have to admit, there are things that have always moved with us that we never throw out that could be happily located elsewhere!

Use Multi-Functional Furniture

My favourite idea is to use furniture that has multiple functions. Beds or chairs that contain storage compartments are brilliant examples of this. They take up as much space as regular items of furniture, but they allow you to store things in them. As a result, you banish a lot of clutter from the room while keeping it very close by. It’s ideal for things like children’s toys or books that you might use regularly but don’t want to leave out all the time as they clutter up a room.

While it can be a good idea to sort through your clutter and get rid of things that have no purpose, there’s no need to throw away loads of perfectly good things. I said to Roy just the other day “We have too much stuff” but really, I think we just don’t have enough storage. Could you declutter a better way than simply throwing things away?

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