As a design agency, we manage social media accounts and put together social media campaigns for small and large businesses. However, we often find companies can be guilty of focussing too much on gaining new business and typically neglect their existing customer base. Did you know...
If you think your small business can ignore social media, you should think again. It is estimated that 90% of young adults (18-29) are actively using a social networking site and this figure is only going up. So, does your small business dabble in social...
Twitter is one of the best online social media platforms for business but getting your Twitter account up and running is one thing, identifying your objectives, targeting your market and measuring your success and performance is another. So to get the most out of Twitter...
Here at The Maltings Studios our web designers spend a lot of time ensuring the websites we design, build and host are safe from hackers. It is an ongoing and continual part of being web designers. So how can you keep your WordPress website or...
We first built a Wordpress website for our client T. & J. Fire back in 2011. The site was clean, informative and suited their business needs. To keep the site fit for the web we had added a plug-in to make the site mobile-friendly but...
Looking back over 2015, the studio team has produced some real gems in design for web and print. we cannot list them all so here are a few of our favourites ones. We began the year with a complete branding for start-up Lewis of Radlett butchery...
We get asked this question a lot and there is no correct answer, but you can, by doing a bit of research, narrow down which ones are more appropriate for your type of business. To start with you need to decide: 1) Who are your target audience/market? 2)...
Website tips You have a great website but now it is time to improve it by following these easy tips. But, firstly, let us just remind you that your website should be continually developing and changing. Not only in it's content but in its SEO as...
We recently built 2 ecommerce sites for clients in very different industries. Great, everyone is happy but now the real work starts. Just because you have an ecommerce site it doesn’t mean people are going to be able to find it. You need to market...
Tah Dah! The Maltings Studios’ new website is now up and running! Over the past few weeks we have been working hard to clear the decks and apply all our creative energy into getting our own website finished. We are happy to say that it is...
For a while now we have been banging on to our clients about the importance of social media in their marketing strategies. For some they have fully embraced it and are actively, blogging tweeting, pinning, linking and posting. However, for a few we might as...
I think it would be fair to say, that in the 27 years that The Maltings Studios has been designing, we’ve seen and heard every cliché and had every old chestnut thrown at us! One of my personal favourite’s is ‘can you just do a...