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Digital Event Cardiff 2012

Think Digital: News Update

By demand, THINK DIGITAL is back and ready to hit 2012 with a bang. A huge thank you to all who attended our first event on 11th November 2011, your feedback has been gratefully received and our survey says:

THINK DIGITAL 2012 / Friday March 2nd 2012 3pm – 6pm. / Kuku Club, Cardiff, UK

We will be announcing full details on the next event very soon. In the meantime, please feel free to email info@thinkdigital-cardiff.co.uk with any questions, or pop over to @TDCardiff

Here’s some of your feedback…
“Fantastic event. Something very much lacking in Cardiff. Would be great if future events had a little more focus as I’ve found they can get a bit similar if not. Brilliant first event though.” Thank you! We are looking to cover specific topics in the next event, and will be allocating Q&A sessions in order for you to go into more depth as required.

“GOOD EVENT! But needs some tweaks… more space more light and longer speeches.” Absolutely. We definitely need proper lighting and have condensed the number of speakers from 4 to 3 in order to allow more time per topic.

“Excellent first event. Well done. Learned a lot. Got the synapses firing. Met some cool people. Hope to be around for future events.” Thank you, we’re really pleased with the overall feedback and will do everything we can to ensure the next event offers value to each and every attendee.

“It was a really positive, interesting event which is different from anything I’ve ever been to and draws in a different crowd.” Felt really good to have such an incredible turnout from local business, it was inspiring to see such a broad group of people sharing ideas and opinions.

Would come again and bring more colleagues for some more specialist insight from your speakers.” We’re expanding presentations slightly and have also introduced a Q&A session, hopefully enabling us to offer maximum insight on topics.

“First event was great. But from the marketing it isn’t clear if the event is aimed @ Digital media for dummies type audience or aimed @ seasoned digital media people i.e. advanced CPD. I think you need to differentiate clearly.” THINK DIGITAL 2011 was aimed at small to medium sized local business owners (who wanted a bit of digital inspiration) but ended up drawing in a lot of digital enthusiasts and agencies etc. All are welcome, but perhaps it’s a case of ‘must try harder’… will do our best to set out our agenda clearly when marketing the next event. Thank you!

Groupon Advice To Merchants

A digital enterprise which enjoyed Wall Street petting, suddenly brandished as the skintest multi-billion generating company in existence, Groupon is almost celebrity with its turbulent media coverage featuring merchants going bust, Watchdog reports hitting The Mail, Business Insider running articles such as The truth about the world’s most controversial company, heaps of scepticism and damning reports about its ever-decreasing stock shares and countless forums pumped with complaints about misinformation and crafty small print. Horror and pandemonium aside, Groupon is still in business and the British public still seem bang up for a bargain.  But for anyone considering setting up a deal for the first time with Groupon, I’d like to share some very honest, non-jargon advice/views based on my recent experiences of working with Groupon on behalf of a client.

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Clwb Ifor Bach/Multimedia/Rubberbandits

Having discovered the Rubberbandits through Youtube, I instantly had big love for these two Irish mentalists, their comedy, videos & music. All of which award winning, I think they even have an MTV show on the go, wey hey! Anyhoo, last night I was chuffed to see that they were coming to Cardiff to gig at Clwb Ifor Bach…

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THINK DIGITAL Cardiff: Your Feedback

On Friday 11th November 2011 we held our first digital event in Cardiff, THINK DIGITAL. Our aim was to collaborate with other digital professionals in Cardiff and put together a collection of presentations which would both (hopefully!) inform and inspire. Our target audience for the event was local businesses, from start-ups to medium sized companies, possibly with a web presence in place but with scope for improvement and room for ideas and inspiration.


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Think Digital – New Cardiff Business Event

Being a web company means your clients can be all over, from London to New Zealand, New York to South Africa. Sounds glam, but I think it’s easy to forget what’s on your doorstep – and there’s a great saying: ‘Don’t forget your roots, for they’ll always support you‘, which I think is a nice approach to working with local companies. When I started at Big Eye Deers, I was keen to meet up with local business people… Continue reading

Magento – I’m Mad Frrit, Me! #ecommerce

Since starting to work for Big Eye Deers I’ve been introduced to something called Magento and it’s started to take over my life. ‘What is Magento?’ you may ask. Well, apart from being a stupid-sounding word, and all techi stuff aside, it’s basically a type of online shop (boutique or superstore) that ANYONE can have. Tiesto’s got one http://www.shoptiestoglobal.com/ (yup, we did this) and non-global superstar DJs can have one too. I think they’d be good for anyone with something to sell. A florist maybe, furniture retailer, sunglasses seller, hairdresser (get your tigi products and hairbrushes selling online), you could be selling anything.

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A Good Business Needs A Good Website!

Regarding the title to this blog – yes, it’s cheesy but it’s true, so no sniggering in the back!  Alas, just wanted to fill you in re a great little site for a new client. KCD is a UK-based KeyChain Desktop retailer that needed a website to communicate a clear and professional message to its customers…

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Big Eye Deers Loves Supporting Independent Businesses

Integrated Management Systems is a business which provides consultancy to companies across the UK. The Director of IMS, Ian Wilcox, approach Big Eye Deers seeking a website for his company, which had previously not had any online presence…

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The APN site is now live!

Clothing brand APN (A Public Nuisance) required an e-commerce site that showcased their debut retail line, in addition to a stunning photography campaign and an SWL feature (or “Stuff We Like”) where visitors submit a range of interests to be included on the site.

We built the APN online store using FoxyCart, which offers a range of benefits, including:

- The ability to use your existing templates

- A format that is easy to implement

- Automatic shipping rates calculated

- XML Datafeeds

The overall site design is simple, yet striking, featuring red, white and black as the dominant colours. The Flash banner on the homepage features the campaign photography in an image carousel doused in a rich cherry red overlay.

See the site for yourself here.

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The Atticus Black online store is now live!

Atticus Black, the music division of the world-renowned clothing brand, required an online store to showcase its range of CDs, T-shirts and accessories.

We built a slick store using Magento technology – a market-leading, open-source shopping cart system that delivers Amazon-like functionality at an unbeatable price. We delivered an easy-to-manage store with a dark and gritty  look that was a design constant throughout the site.

One of the defining features is the T-shirt download mechanism, where customers who order a T-shirt from the store can input their unique code into the site and download a free mp3 track.

The store also boasts a seven-frame Flash banner, best-in-class SEO, easy-to-use functionality with best-practice e-commerce user experiences. An important aspect of the store’s functionality centred on easy-to-use (and easy to maintain!) upload and management capabilities – which Magento tackles with ease.

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Visit the store here.

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