NewCo to ?? : How to launch a new business in three months

Published January 8, 2012 by Gillian Hunter

It has been quite a week for aardmaan.

We celebrated our tenth year in business, supported the World Record attempt to get a record number of comments on a blog post in 24 hours (see #comment24 on twitter) in support of RNLI.

Completed finishing touches to website in time for launch of a new company and worked on a major web project.

(However, the 5:30 to 22:30 (Monday to Saturday) these last few weeks, aren't our usual hours!)

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Too busy to celebrate our birthday?

Published January 4, 2012 by Gillian Hunter

birthday candlesIt is our tenth birthday this week! We opened the doors for business the first week of January 2002. Those ten years have flown - and the tenth anniversary sort of snuck up on us! We've been so busy with projects for clients that we put our own celebrations on the back-burner!

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Digital trends for 2012

Published January 4, 2012 by Gillian Hunter

Just a thought

Published October 28, 2011 by Gillian Hunter

Who do you really think drives your business success? Is it your direct paying customers? Or their customers? The people who actually use your product or service.

Who drives your business successSo, who do you focus on? Where do you put all your effort? Pleasing the customer or creating something that users will rave about? It's simple really, if you don't excite users, your customers (the guys who sign the cheques) won't get excited either.  Users drive sales. Customers only buy because they see there is a ready market - and they're onto a sure thing. They're only really interested in the bottom line and making a good profit. If users aren't going mad about your product or service - where's the incentive? 

So, how do you treat the users of your products and services? Do you engage them? Talk to them? Or, ignore them?  

First Prezi - a presentation game-changer

Published June 24, 2011 by Gillian Hunter


Have known about Prezi for a while, but haven't tried it out. What a revelation. Really don't know why I didn't give this a try before. It's fabulous!

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