by Ian Elcoate | 6th July 2022 | Business Development, Business Development, Marketing, Insights, Miscellaneous, Technology
It’s been a busy couple of weeks with work for clients but also taking some time out (and working the weekend) to learn how to run the business better. We’re big fans of lifelong learning whether that is through reading, talking to our peers or getting...
by Ian Elcoate | 29th June 2022 | Business Development, Marketing, Insights
As a small business owner a lot of my time is spent just “doing stuff”. That includes sales, staffing, writing blogs, networking, general admin and being a technician – actually doing some of the geeky stuff. All of those things are necessary and, at...
by Ian Elcoate | 22nd June 2022 | Business Development, Marketing
To me it seems that there are two main choices in growing an agency. You can grow a big team and bring in all asociated services under one roof or you can outsource services outside of a core offering, collaborating with others to provide services such as copywriting,...
by Ian Elcoate | 8th June 2022 | Insights, Miscellaneous, Partners
We are a small business and have limited spare funds available to support local charities but feel it is important that we do. There are an ever increasing number of people, both locally and nationally, who rely on charity as the cost of living crisis deepens which...
by Ian Elcoate | 3rd May 2022 | External Environment, Insights, Miscellaneous, Technology
Technology is neutral, how it is used, owned and managed determines whether it has a positive or a negative effect on society. I believe we need to have a very different view about technology and make changes as a society that greatly reduce the hours people work as...
by Ian Elcoate | 30th June 2019 | Business Development, Marketing
We’re proud of where we are from and also have a social conscience – so when one of the team suggests that all 5 of us run a 5K for a local not for profit organisations that tackles a blight on our society ( and unfortunately our area is one of the worst...
by Ian Elcoate | 4th June 2019 | Business Development, Marketing, Partners
Tad Web Solutions have partnered up with My Sisters Place in an effort to raise money and awareness to a charity in which we firmly believe in. We first come across My Sisters Place when attending one of our business networking events, BNI. My Sisters Place do...
by Ian Elcoate | 16th May 2019 | Insights, Marketing
Over the next couple of weeks we will be releasing a series of short BIOs to gain an insight into each member of our team. First up, we sat down with our Managing Director, Ian, and asked a few questions to get to know him a little bit better. About Name: Ian Elcoate...
by Ian Elcoate | 30th April 2019 | Business Development, Insights, Marketing
Over the last couple of months, Tad Web Solutions have expanded, and we recruited our Marketing Manager, Jamie. This post is going to explain in short from his point of view of what it is like to work at Tad Web Solutions. There are a lot of positives working at Tad...
by Ian Elcoate | 25th February 2019 | Data protection, Security, Web
Last week it was reported that there is a major vulnerability in WordPress in version 4 prior to 4.9.9 and the new version 5 (Gutenberg) prior to 5.0.1. The advice is simply to update your version asap. The problem with a CMS like WordPress is that it is used to allow...
by Ian Elcoate | 4th February 2019 | Insights, Technology, Web
This will be a short post and we do welcome comments from other web-designers and developers with their thoughts. My starting point is: I don’t think Gutenberg is completely release ready I’m not saying that it doesn’t work, we are using it, but I...
by Ian Elcoate | 7th January 2019 | Data protection, Insights, Security, Web
There is a never-ending stream of news stories about security breaches and the reality is that if dedicated groups like Anonymous can hack (usually for good reason – personal opinion) major organisations and Governmental departments with a huge security budget,...
