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Energy Company’s New Look Helps Secure Global Future
Read more: Energy Company’s New Look Helps Secure Global FutureElectrical Oil Services (EOS) refreshed its branding which helped secure its acquisition by global company, HCS Group. As a leading supplier of unused and reclaimed electrical insulating oils and on-site transformer treatment services, the EOS brand successfully branched out into Europe after joining HCS group. EOS decided to re-evaluate its branding and website, because their…
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How to write a Press Release
Read more: How to write a Press ReleaseIn today’s overworked and understaffed newsrooms a well-written press release more often than not stands a good chance of being published. But don’t rely on this. Reporters and editors stick proudly to their editorial principles and will only use a press release if it is worthy of publication. To ensure your press release hits the…
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Celebrating 10 Years of Textile Conservation
Read more: Celebrating 10 Years of Textile ConservationLast month, Mackman’s Paul and Bruce joined May Berkouwer and the team in celebrating 10 years of textile conservation in Sudbury. May Berkouwer Textile Conservation offers a full range of services. From advice to treatment on a variety of historical textiles, their clients include the National Trust and the V&A Museum. As well as many…
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Hosting & Support: Service Upgrade
Read more: Hosting & Support: Service UpgradeWe’ve recently updated our hosting solution. In line with recent Google updates, and to increase the value of our service. We believe that we now offer the strongest WordPress hosting solution possible, at no extra cost to our clients. Find out what this means for all of our website clients by reading below: Why did we…
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New Greenfields Website: Encouraging people to get online
Read more: New Greenfields Website: Encouraging people to get onlineThe Mackman team recently collaborated with Greenfields Community Housing to launch a brand refresh and new website to make it easier for residents to access its services. Greenfields’ new, contemporary website is designed to make it easier for residents to find the information they need. At Mackman, we brought together the expertise of our whole team. Refreshing…
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Facebook: Measuring Social Media Success
Read more: Facebook: Measuring Social Media SuccessMeasuring the success of your social media can seem straightforward – particularly on Facebook. Mackman’s Digital Manager Jim Carr shows us what’s under the surface of tracking and monitoring the success of your Facebook strategies. Are you measuring your social media success in the right way? There are two types of metric that often get…
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Google Update: Mobile Page Speed Matters
Read more: Google Update: Mobile Page Speed MattersThe importance of mobile page speed Today, we give one simple instruction: get your website page speed optimised. Google has announced that the loading speed of your site will be an important factor in its mobile-first index. This may not seem important, but this suggests that overall site speed is being seriously considered as a…
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Why you NEED an SSL certificate
Read more: Why you NEED an SSL certificateWe cannot stress this enough: make applying an SSL certificate to your site a top priority for 2017, or miss out on a Google rank boost. Back as far as August 2014, Google announced that switching websites over to HTTPS via the use of an SSL certificate would give website owners a minor ranking boost. As it prefers…
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What will you Make Happen?
Read more: What will you Make Happen?In collaboration with Essex Collaborative Outreach network, the Mackman team has recently worked on a campaign called Make Happen. The campaign aimed to help students across Essex take control of their future and Make Happen! The Make Happen campaign involved running workshops in schools throughout November and December 2016. These workshops aimed to empower young people…
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Hosting & Support: The Importance of WebCare
Read more: Hosting & Support: The Importance of WebCareHosting & Support services are crucial to the smooth running and long-term maintenance of the websites we create here at Mackman. To prove the value of Hosting & Support, let us talk you through the importance of webcare… At 3pm on Wednesday 10th February 2016, our hosting partner suffered a global failure due to a power…