Getting sites to the top of Google rankings is a serious business - so serious that it's easy to forget that the company also has a fun side. This week, the BBC showed us a video and images of Google's new offices in Zurich. Fancy making an...
We are in full swing to organizing our coffee morning in support of Macmillan Cancer's World's Biggest Coffee Morning. Taking place on Friday 24th September, you can now see full details here: Notting Hill Biz Coffee Morning. We do hope to see...
You may currently be preoccupied with thinking about how you're going to optimize your website for the oncoming mobile web explosion. Well, if you want a break from that, we've got news for you - it looks like we're also in line for a massive rise...
If you sell internationally, it's definitely worth reading the technology section of the daily papers. For example, did you know that many websites, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, not to mention the all-important Google, are blocked in...
Not exactly unexpected, I suppose, but Google reports that searches for "gift ideas" are up by 40% since last month. Does your site sell anything that could possibly be someone's ideal Christmas gift? Well, now could be the time to put together...
Web veteran Fari Peyman of Notting Hill Biz predicts top small business trends for 'The Teens'. Read full article »
Heard of Black Friday? Despite its grim-sounding name, this is the day retailers traditionally see their tills ringing, as customers start their Christmas shopping in earnest. It's a more common term over in the States, where the effect is...
A recent interesting article in Management Today mentioned the research we conducted on how many small businesses in the UK have websites (answer: fewer than ought). This was as part of a wider response to a recent report about how much time is...
The best things in life are FREE. We have found out that Notting Hill Biz (https://www.nottinghill.biz) offers FREE websites to small businesses. Read full article »
London web agency Notting Hill Biz is producing websites for small businesses free of charge in a bid to stimulate the local economy. Read full article »
Big news in the office this week: we are embarking on a training scheme to improve our customer service. Why? Because much as we'd like to believe we meet our own high standards all of the time, a couple of recent customer complaints alerted us to...
To the cynic, Twitter can seem like little more than an arena for self-promotion. In the space of those 140 characters, we're all trying to find new ways to 'big ourselves up'. One way to gain Twitter brownie points is by being among the first to...
Case: The Reel Poster Gallery is situated in west London and renowned for its collection of vintage original movie posters as well as related books. Trading for over 17 years, the company was certainly well established and successful but its online...
Case: The Back Shop is a well established retail outlet selling orthopaedic furniture, trading for over 20 years, with a showroom in central London. It had an online presence but the website was not generating enough interest nor had it been...
It is a lot of a small business person, unfortunately, that one never has time to concentrate on absolutely everything. Something always has to give while you deal with, well, the realities of life: customers, tax returns, stock control... Which is...
Got your website looking just the way you like it? Great news - but has it ever occurred to you that not every visitor might be seeing it the same way you do? I'm not talking about human visitors (although that's a whole issue in itself when you...