We were thrilled to see a new grant available for small businesses in Carmarthenshire to help in developing your bilingual presence both in your online and offline marketing. This is a great opportunity to help with costs on getting a new bilingual website, or even...
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Website Launch: Ystwyth Vets
Ystwyth Vets were looking for a new website to showcase their wide range of services, and move to a website that is modern, colourful and informative. It was a pleasure to work with Kate and the team (a very large team!) on the new website, and to create a website...
Website Launch: Lleisiau Bach
Kicking off 2022 with a new website launch, and this one has been so interesting to work on. Lleisiau Bach (Little Voices) is a team who work together to empower children as researchers and advocates for change in Wales. They use methodology adopted by the Observatory...
Instagram Reels: 5 Top Tips
One of our big aims this year is to make sure we really utilise Instragram Reels, and probably TikTok to reach a new audience, and help educate the audience we already have with some fun content. With that in mind, we thought it would be useful to share a blog with...
Trends for 2022 – Websites & Social Media
A brand new year! I love a new year, it always feels like a fresh start – ideas buzzing around, optimism for the possibilities over the next 12 months, and a clean slate in the office (usually with a new notepad just because). With that in mind, I always like to take...
New Website Launch: Gwesty Cymru
Our last website launch for 2021, before we head into the new year is for a local cafeb-bar Gwesty Cymru. Recently purchased by Julian Shelley, Gwesty Cymru has enjoyed a new direction over the past couple of months - moving away from restaurant with rooms, to a...
Favourite Apps for Small Businesses
Sharing is caring, and this month I wanted to share some of my favourite apps that I use for business. There are so many apps and programmes you can use these days, it can sometimes be hard to find the wood from the trees. Of course, the whole point of these apps and...
Now is the time for video..!
Instagram recently released news on their latest update, in short, saying that they’re moving away from being an image focussed platform to incorporating more video. There was a bit of an uproar online, how would people change their strategies? How would businesses...
Digital Marketing Strategy
What is it? In simple terms, a Digital Marketing Strategy is a series of actions taken to help you achieve your long-term marketing goal. Digital Marketing: The promotion of a business and it’s products and/or services through online marketing activities. These can...
Stand out from the crowd
Making marketing work for you. It is estimated that the average person encounters between 6,000 and 10,000 ads every single day. This varies from social media ads to flyers. Radio adverts to email marketing. There’s just no getting away from them! So how can you stand...
FREE Social Media tools we couldn’t live without
We often get asked here at Gwe Cambrian Web: "What apps do you use to create your social media stories / posts / reels / videos etc.?" The truth is, we don't use any fancy nor expensive apps; just ones that are straightforward and simple to use. These include: Canva...
Digital Marketing Explained
What is it? And how can it be used? Due to the ever-changing world of technology, everyone seems to be unclear of what exactly digital marketing entails, and how you can use it efficiently to benefit your business growth. Here we will define digital marketing; give...
Shortlisted for the Rural Business Awards (Wales & NI)
We were absolutely delighted to hear the news that we've been shortlisted for 2 awards at the Rural Business Awards Regional Finals for Wales and Northern Ireland this year! For all small businesses across the country, it's been a very difficult time over the past 18...
What is Local SEO?
Web designers often talk about ‘SEO’, or search engine optimisation which is essentially giving the best chance to your website of appearing higher in the search engine results. A huge part of that is Local SEO. Local SEO is a search engine optimisation strategy that...
Welcome Catrin!
A huge warm welcome to Catrin James who joined the Gwe Cambrian Web team at the start of June! Catrin has joined us as part of our digital marketing team, and will be working alongside our social media clients. Catrin's main roles will be social media management,...
Happy birthday to us – 8!
It doesn’t seem too long ago that we started our business, so it’s quite a shock that it is now 8 years. It’s amazing how far we’ve come, from an idea that formed in a bedroom working off laptops to now having 2 members of staff working for us, and a fantastic office...
New Website Launch: Aber Heating Engineers Ltd
We were delighted to work with Aber Heating Engineers Ltd on their new website which recently launched - it is always an absolute pleasure to work with companies local to Aberystwyth. Unfortunately, Aber Heating Engineers had lost access to their old website, so took...
Caring About the Right Analytics
Whenever you spent time, energy or money on your online presence, you should make sure you look at the insights and analytics. Why? So that you know that what you are doing is working, or perhaps that the content you are spending time creating is being digested by...
What is an online presence?
The new year is a great time to evaluate your online presence and renew the energy you put into your online marketing. You might have a website, but it isn’t getting you any sales? Or perhaps you spend a lot of time posting on your Instagram profile but that isn’t...
Tips for Email Marketing
Email marketing can sometimes be thought of as a little ‘old fashioned’ by some people, especially with social media and new platforms growing in popularity all of the time. It definitely isn’t going anywhere though, and it’s one of the strongest digital marketing...
Kerry named as one of 40 Digital Women to watch in 2021
Last night, Digital Women announced their shortlist for the Digital Women Awards 2021, and their list of top 40 digital women to watch in 2021 - and we were absolutely delighted to see Kerry make that list this year! A fantastic achievement, and we're really proud to...