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“9:55 Creative is a design-led team” – sounds a touch pretentious, doesn’t it? Well, there’s a serious meaning behind it… so allow us to elaborate…

Most people could be forgiven for assuming website pages and landing pages are effectively the same thing (they are “pages on a website” after all) but they’re not. Let’s have a look…

Positive reviews on your Google My Business page reviews are awesome. Like rock solid building blocks for your online marketing efforts they provide credibility, reassurance to potential customers, and are valuable SEO ranking signals, too.

We are keen to contribute to our local community, and members of the Silver Monkey team recently abandoned the office to spend a morning litter picking in Sudbury.

This response brilliantly captures the essence of this well-intentioned, if misguided, question. So anything from £75 to £2,395,000 according to a quick glance at today’s Autotrader. Sounds about right.

I have a bone to pick with certain SEOs, and it revolves around the importance of word count. During conversation with a friend who works in content marketing we discussed on-page optimisation techniques and the importance of…

Customs delays at the French port of Calais have caused chaos for importers and web designers alike.

Like the idea of starting your own creative design agency? Then you’ll need our handy, easy-to-use Design Agency Name Generator…

We are thrilled to have been awarded Silver Level Carbon Charter, marking a huge step on our journey towards net zero.

We regularly receive CVs from aspiring graphic designers hoping to start their careers, and it’s crazy how many fall at the first hurdle.

Social media marketing without a strategy is like a ship without a rudder. We see it all the time, inane nonsense posted for no apparent reason – a cup of tea with the message “brew time” and a thumbs-up emoji or staff eating cake for Carol’s 46th birthday. Yawn. No-one cares.

Despite being a “thing” for more than twenty years, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) remains an unregulated field with no shortage of charlatans and snake oil salespeople.

Flo Rooke, our wonderfully talented graphic designer, website creator, digital marketing expert, and all-round good egg, has begun a 12-month round-the-world trip of a lifetime – while continuing to work full time for 955 Creative.

Did you know Google is phasing-out third-party cookies? If you’re not sure what this means for your business – or what a third-party cookie even is – don’t worry.

The pandemic has not caused marketing to disappear, it has simply evolved to reflect the ‘new normal’.

Making the transition from university to the marketing industry can be extremely daunting, here’s what to expect when making the transition.

Database marketing is not dead – far from it. A well maintained database can be the most effective tool for generating new business.

The golden rule to writing effective web copy is ‘it’s not about you, it’s about your target audience and what they’re interested in.’

Simple question – when you’re creating a new website is it best to tailor the design around the content, or create content to fit the design? There’s one clear answer: Content is King.

Social media marketing has the power to deliver fantastic results in terms of sales, leads, customer service and search engine visibility…

We are delighted to have been awarded Bronze Level Carbon Charter, given to organisations that are monitoring and reducing their carbon emissions.

While we’re full of admiration for the sterling work the HMRC does, we’ve got a small bone to pick with them. What are we talking about? VAT on websites.

We enjoy trying to “make sense of marketing” for the benefit of those outside the profession, so here’s a simple analogy for SEO…

Website design is not new.  Many people in today’s workforce were not even born when we first began to recognise the potential of the internet. Things have evolved somewhat since then…

Marketing is a visual game…and imagery often makes a ‘first impression’ before carefully chosen words get a look in.

In 2012 we heard that Companies House was going to take a harder line with companies that don’t meet the legal requirements in regard to business stationery..

Business is tough enough without making your customers do all the work. Find out why a good guitar and a decent bike make a good analogy for branding…

A common part of day-to-day business life involves the creation of quotations and proposals to win business.  However, we see the same basic mistakes crop up that could potentially cost the sale.

If you were in an Apple store or McDonalds where every logo had been removed, would you honestly be in any doubt about where you were? Of course not.

We had a bit of fun creating this video on why some of the more traditional ‘old school’, shouty and promotional PR methodologies might be starting to look out of tune with today’s media industry. A subject close to Dave’s heart! Click for more information on our own Strategic PR Services. Funky music score by bensound.com

Digital marketing is not new… believe it or not, the world wide web was created 27 years ago.  And yet still people insist on making the most basic, annoying and fundamentally stupid errors with their websites.

Journalism and digital marketing are increasingly intertwined…so here’s some SEO tips for journalists from our digital marketing team.

10 jargon-free thought-provoking questions to help a technically terrified business owner create a meaningful brief to discuss with a website design agency

955 HQ is always a busy, creative little place, but we plan to take a few moments out later this week to enjoy a refreshing cold beverage and celebrate a significant milestone.

There is more to great web design than one might think. To illustrate this, we devised and often refer to ‘The Four Pillars of Great Web Design’

Here at 955 Creative we make regular use of cookies in our website design process. But what are the rules of using cookies online?

“What is SEO?” might sound like a pretty fundamental question to those of us involved in the murky world of digital marketing on a daily basis, but it’s one that we do still get asked.

We find we spend a lot of time debunking outdated misconceptions about SEO techniques. Here are a few of the most common SEO mistakes we find people make.

Stop taking advice from SEO companies! Find out how Google Webmasters gives you all you need to know to make an informed decision on which SEO agency to use.

On-page SEO is all about boosting the ranking of your web page in the natural search results of basic search engines like Google. Here are five tips to help!

Is there an ideal SEO keyword density? No…..and yes…..There is no set formula for keyword density, but here’s what we recommend!

There’s far more to great ‘content’ than just creating articles with lots of words to help with SEO…here we discuss a few other great content marketing ideas.

Tips on how sales objections can boost your SEO and positively benefit your online marketing

Good photography is an art, but a half-decent camera and access to Photoshop does not make you an artist.

An SEO strategy based on anything other than demonstrating that you deserve to be on the front page is a shirt-lived one. At least I hope so…

Google Panda 4.1 has recently been released, but what’s changed and how will it affect your website? 9:55 Creative explain…

There’s an excitement and a buss here that come from a shared belief that we are building something special. We’re proud of our brand. Are you?

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) might sound complicated, but it can be simple if you get the basics right. Here’s four SEO tips to get you started.

Don’t expect a branding agency to create brand loyalty, you have to EARN it. But good branding will set the tone and create the right first impression.

Here’s a few tips for using social media to interact and form relationships with customers, create brand awareness and draw traffic to your website

A myth I was regularly fed by well-intentioned sales directors throughout my sales career is that people buy from people. Sorry, but it’s simply not true.

There are many different ways of trying to boost your website in search engines, but two often get confused…SEO and Google Adwords. What’s the difference?

Effective website design will convert visions into enquiries. Suffolk website team 9:55 Creative explain why you’ve for just five seconds to do it…

Follow James the Plumber on his quest for great web design in Suffolk. Did he get a website written by a plumber? Or a website company?