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By Robert Mathers

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Your Business

Run better meetings with Six Thinking Hats

Whenever you have a meeting you want to make sure that it's as productive as possible. One technique for achieving this comes from a book called Six Thinking Hats which helps all the different participants to consider problems and ideas to more effectively reach a clear consensus. This post will go through the basics of the Six Thinking Hats method of running meetings so you can use it to make faster and better decisions for your projects. Read on to find out more.

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By Robert Mathers

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Heart Internet

Inspiration for our Sculpt Showcase Competition

THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED

You may have seen that we recently launched our Sculpt Showcase Competition in which you’re free to build any kind of site that you want with Sculpt and the one that wows us the most will receive £1,400 of amazing prizes including a brand new 21.5 inch 2.7GHz iMac. This post will run through some of the different kinds of websites that you can create and enter into the competition to get your creative juices flowing.

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By Robert Mathers

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Interviews, Website of the Month

Interview with Website of the Month winner Lewis Peterson

April’s Website of the Month winner was Lewis Peterson, a business development consultancy who specialise in tendering and procurement. We caught up with their Director of Business Development, Jamie Peterson to talk about the site's success, the importance of brand values, how to approach setting up a business website and more.

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By Matthew Telfer

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Your Business

A review of online advertising networks for small budgets

At Heart Internet we use a variety of marketing channels to drive traffic to our website. As an online business ourselves digital marketing plays a significant role, and we are active across a number of display advertising networks.

Here is my review of the networks we have experience of using that are suitable for advertisers with relatively limited budgets (i.e. £100 to £2,000 per month). These are Google AdWords, BuySellAds, Facebook, AdRoll and Twitter. Which online advertising network is right for you?

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By Robert Mathers

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Heart Internet, Your Website

What is a brand?

One of the biggest issues when talking about brands is that people often have a range of different definitions for this term. It’s often taken for granted that everyone is on the same page when these conversations start, but without being clear about this definition from the get-go plenty of misunderstandings and unnecessary compromises can appear as the project progresses. This post will list a number of the most common definitions of brand and give you a single definition that will help you to get the most of the brand work.

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By Matthew Telfer

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Reseller Hosting

New for resellers: Sell nTLDs through HostPay plus get an exclusive 10% off

We have made it even easier for our Reseller Pro customers to take advantage of the new domain names (.guru, .photography, .graphics, .red etc.) being introduced every week.

All Reseller Pro customers now get an automatic 10% discount off all new Top Level Domains (nTLDs). We have also added the ability to sell nTLDs directly from your website through HostPay. Keep reading to find out more.

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By Jenni Brown

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Domain Names

How to set up your domain name for Bit.ly, GitHub and others

The best feature of domain names is that they allow for freedom of expression and help you create a consistent persona or brand across the web. But a lot of third party accounts restrict you to a username that isn’t your first choice or a long URL that’s impossible for you (or potential visitors) to remember. The good news is that you can quickly resolve this for GitHub and any other third party accounts you have, either with a simple DNS change or with a fast control panel redirect. All you need is a domain name to get started.

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