Raising money for Cancer Research
I am really pleased to announce that I am competing in the British 10k London running event, in order to raise money for Cancer Research UK. The event, which takes place on Sunday 14th of June 2013 is the first of many runs that I’m aiming to take part in this year, with a view to preparing for the New York marathon next year. >> Any sponsorship is greatly appreciated and can be given here: https://www.justgiving.com/paulnrogers/ << If you would like to run with me, you can sign up...
read moreMy favourite responsive ecommerce websites
As of last year, the agency that I work for, GPMD, became a mobile first agency, meaning that we design for mobile devices first and work up. With this in mind, people in our office are always talking about different responsive retail websites that they like, so I thought I’d put them together and create a blog post with my favourite examples. I have shamelessly included a few websites that were built by GPMD (such as The Watch Gallery and Budd Shirts), but only because I think they’re good examples of fluid design. I plan to keep this...
read more7 simple tips for improving your outreach efforts
Over the last few years, I’ve spent a lot of time working with bloggers and editorial site owners and I’ve learnt a lot about what they’re generally receptive to. Here are 7 actionable tips for improving your outreaching campaigns. 1. Put a compelling pitch together In the time that I’ve spent working on outreach campaigns I’ve generally found that that you will get a much better response if you pitch a structured idea to them. We generally approach bloggers with an idea, comprising a title, some data or research and an overview of...
read moreTop 50 Ecommerce Websites
Having spent the last few months going through lots of ecommerce websites for work projects, I thought it’d be a good idea to write a post about my favourite ones. I chose the following websites based on their design and uniqueness and the order is not based on which ones I prefer. Net a Porter www.netaporter.com — Mr Porter www.mrporter.com — Gieves & Hawkes www.gievesandhawkes.com — The Watch Gallery www.thewatchgallery.co.uk — The Body...
read moreSocialCrawlytics: A Brand new social crawler tool!
Social Crawlytics is a brand new social crawler that was released late last week by Yousaf Sekander. The new tool is a hugely useful resource as it allows you to see which pages of a website have been shared and on which social networks. By simply entering your web address, Social Crawlytics allows you to see the amount of shares (broken down by social network) for each page of your website. You can also validate that you own a website (by uploading a file to your server) to make the crawler perform faster. I am really impressed with this...
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