have just posted details of this on the creative coast blog. wouldn’t it be great to for a yorkshire coast company to get some acknowledgment and exposure?
categories include ‘best business to business website’, ‘business to consumer’ plus some new ones for this year too. sadly the ‘best not-for-profit website’ award has been removed this year. it’s free to enter but get your skates on as the deadline is 4th february.
it seems a bit egotistical to have two blogs - i very much doubt i have that much to say, or at least, stuff to say that people will want to read. but one of ross’s top tips last wednesday was to know who your intended audience is and use your blog accordingly. so i intend to use this blog to focus on creative coast, the creative industries, stuff happening locally and thoughts, ideas and stuff that’s related to creative coast.
if i were to put that stuff on the electric angel blog it would get in the way of showing our work - which is the primary aim of our business web presence. i just hope i’ve got time to do both…
i admit i am an enthusiastic convert to blogs and blogging. and that’s because we’ve found our blog at electric angel to be hugely beneficial.
it’s sometimes the case that graphics designers have the most out of date websites - they have the skills to design and produce them but they often struggle to find time to do it. after literally years of having only a holding page because our last website was very out of date, we swapped to a blog.
it’s was a sudden decision - in fact we’d built quite a tasty new website but we realised that having a blog would enable us to update much quicker and collectively add a bit of personality to our web presence.
and it’s a been one of the best decisions we’ve made. we used to get about 8 visitors a month to our website (ok, so it only had our address and phone number on) but now we regularly get 400+ visitors a day - all that in under a year.
so the idea (thanks to ross) that creative coast ought to encourage local creatives to get blogging by setting up free blogs is an exciting one. i hope that other creatives find blogs as useful as we have and i look forward to when, is perhaps 12 months time, a google search for ’scarborough’ or ‘yorkshire coast’ will bring up a host of creatives blogging away and showing what a hotbed of creative talent we have in the area.