Chances are that as a small business you have spent some time worrying about what those well versed in marketing call “branding”. You have probably paid for a logo or logotype, signs, business cards and the whole works. (If not, get in touch with our team at Trends Mobile and Web Solutions and we can help take your brand to…read more →
Imagine if you can, a time before the Internet, when businesses had to manually collect data by physically asking customers how they found them or by counting coupons or vouchers they received back from a promotion in order to gauge how successful it was. Basing important business decisions on this data was a little risky because the demographics wouldn’t necessarily…read more →
Our previous article ‘What is a Responsive Website?’, provided an explanation of the different terms used to describe responsive and mobile websites, but why is a fully responsive website so important? Let’s look at some statistics. Subscriptions made through mobile devices grew by 10% over 2014, which increased the total of all subscriptions made through a mobile device to 22,000,000….read more →
Domain renewal scams are intended to scare you into thinking your domain is about to expire. They provide a renewal invoice – which transfers your domain from your current registrar to theirs – and they charge you a high price for renewals. Sometimes, they are even offering you a domain that is very similar to yours – so close that…read more →
At Trends team meetings we have a saying that goes around; “it’ll just take ten minutes.” While not a large amount of time, ten minutes can seem like a lifetime during a busy and hectic day. It’s not always easy finding some down time in which you could surprisingly be even more productive than you may have originally thought. Your…read more →
Is backing up your data really all that necessary? The answer to that question depends on you. Data backup can be time consuming, especially if your information isn’t organized, and with so many files on our systems you may question what is the most valuable. We often ignore the most important reasons for doing a backup in the first place:…read more →
e scenario: you have just invested in your business by putting together a website and you are now tasked with filling your website with compelling content. Imagine that you have thought about content ahead of time and produced some wonderful copy and imagery, now what? Do you just copy and paste your content in and call it a day? By…read more →
The last two weeks have been an incredibly challenging time for many Southern Alberta business owners. The record breaking floods that raced from the mountains to Medicine Hat dislocated hundreds of businesses throughout the flood zone; some have been completely destroyed. Even our business, though untouched by the flood water, “went on pause” to deal with this enormous event. Most…read more →
One of the web’s hottest trends over the past few years is responsive web design (RWD). Over and over, as a business owner you have probably been urged to make your website accessible to mobile phones, and perhaps you have begun to equate the two. After all, both internet browsing on cellphones and RWD seem to have risen at the…read more →
Everywhere we go, we are now confronted with QR codes. It seems like the newest trend that every business has jumped on board with, yet most don’t know why. Just the other day at the bank, I was handed a business card with a QR code on the front. When I asked where the QR code would send me, the…read more →