August
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Facebook is not only great for communicating with friends and family you can also get help from them to promote your business or website, many friends of mine have inspired many ideas over the last year or so, why does it have to stop there? Friends of friends or people you don’t even know can be just as inspirational.
You can promote your niche, product or service within your group, create one yourself and see, just ask people to join, create discussions, where people are involved. Within your group you can promote your business brand if you have one, include your business logo and website address and contact details.
When you sign up you can join a network, I joined the Brighton network because I want to promote my website to the 61,688+ members of Brighton who are on Facebook. I can communicate with other members by leaving messages or joining in discussions, also my group is global so anyone in the world can give feedback or ideas.
People join your group and will remember your brand and business the next time they need to use your service or product. It’s a good way to network and promote your business and maybe come up with new ideas.
You can create notes and link them to your blog or website, which have interesting content for people to read, you can create automatic notes through your blogs RSS feed, so people can read your blog via your Facebook profile and comment on it as well
Just don’t spam, the community hate that and it defeats the object of why you started the group.
The reason I started my group was not just to promote my website and shop for my own financial benefit but to help other worthy business take advantage of free marketing, word of mouth plays a big part of a successful venture.
I am looking for people to help with writing for my blog, finding bargains and at the end of the day have fun doing it.
Feel free to join the group You Could Save when you have registered on Facebook, its easy! Just type You Could Save and search groups.

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August
1

The Beauty Room

Posted In: Website Reviews by Online Shopper

The Beauty Room - Beauty ProductsSite Name: The Beauty Room

Address: http://www.thebeautyroom.co.uk/

Core Business: Beauty products, gifts, lotions and skincare products.

Online store selling high-end but reasonalby priced branded beauty products including skin care, sun protection and complementary treatments.

Website Plus Points

  • Familiar and intuitive online store layout
  • Attractive and appropriate choice of colours (rose)
  • Subtle, non annoying, distinctive animation in the page header
  • Simple navigation and clear location feedback from breadcrumb trail
  • What’s in the basket clearly displayed
  • Readable, resizeable text
  • Freephone telephone number clearly displayed
  • Simple account creation process

Website Negatives

  • The fixed width may be a little small on some high resolution displays (but not mine)
  • Some may find the dark pink text on light pink background in the menus hard to read (I don’t)

Main Products

You Could Save Review

The Beauty Room presents a delightfully styled, light and airy online store that is a pleasure to visit and use. Very easy and quick to navigate with good quality product images used throughout the store. They have managed to recreate the look and feel of a high quality beauty products high-street store but, unfortunately, we aren’t yet able to sample or smell the products via the internet.

They have a large catalogue of products but somehow the store maintains its uncluttered airy feel throughout. Finding the right product is made simple using their menus which enable the shopper to choose between shopping by brands, categories or skin type. Unfortunately they don’t have a ‘warty and haggard’ selection in the skin type menu. The direct link to the top 10 sellers is a useful feature that may help guys like me find the right gift for their partners.

Product prices: A brief comparison of the Beauty Room branded product prices with those of other online beauty product vendors indicates that they are matching some of the best online prices available. What’s more, their monthly sale items appear to offer significant savings on prices seen elsewhere. E.g. Their Mary Cohr: Youth And Beauty Hand Cream is attractively priced at £6 whereas elsewhere this item is £10.

Delivery: The Beauty Room offers free delivery on UK orders over £50 which is something of an encouragement to spend at least that much. They also offer recorded and special delivery at an additional cost. As an enticement there is a substantial free gift when you place your first order.

Gift wrap: Its not immediately clear whether a gift-wrapping service is available.

The Beauty Room offers the online beauty product shopper a pleasant shopping experience, good prices and some appealing free gifts. Its just a pity that you can’t smell the products across an internet connection.

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July
23

WSP Marquees - Marquee Hire

Posted In: Website Reviews by MoneySaver

Site Name: WSP Marquees
Address: www.wspmarquees.co.uk
Core Business: Marquee Hire

WSP Marquees supply Capri style Marquees for events, parties and weddings throughout Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and parts of Kent.

Website Plus Points

  • Offers plan layouts
  • Offers images of marquees
  • Lots of images of marquees

Website Negatives

  • No online live assistance
  • Site seems to contain old price information

Main Products

  • Party Maquees
  • Marquees for weddings
  • Marquees for corporate events

You Could Save Review of West Sussex Party Marquees

West Sussex Party Marquees is a very simple site in terms of its operation. Its purpose is as a lead genneration tool. Personally I don’t think it offers enough information to potential users of their services. If I were going to hiring I would want to know everything there is to about the subject. Don’t get me wrong, the site is not offensive, if you are looking for a Marquee Hire company is Sussex and the surrounding areas, then West Sussex Party Marquees is the site for you.

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