7 tips for writing blogs

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Writing a blog

New Years Resolutions for Bloggers. Every year we make them and occasionally we manage to keep to them. New Year’s resolutions often represent our best intentions, which somehow fall by the way side when real life kicks in and we get caught up in the day to day workings of our businesses. If you’re a […]

Logo design & ecommerce development

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Mellow Duck Logo and Website Design

Logo design and ecommerce development for high-end furniture manufacture Bluehoop Digital are really pleased to have helped Mellow Duck, designers and manufacturers of stunning furniture, to launch their business. Mellow Duck specialise in stylish upholstered furniture and accessories that provide eye-catching comfort zones to homes.  Mellow Duck’s furniture is manufactured in Yorkshire from sustainable hardwood […]

Increasing online Christmas sales

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Christmas is coming

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday just around the corner, how do you compete with your online competitors and get visitors to buy from you rather than someone else? The answer very much depends on attracting the right visitor to your website, selling the product they desire at the right price and how you treat […]

Social Media – It’s not all about the numbers

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SEO the key players

Here at Bluehoop Digital we have lost count of the amount of times we hear business owners saying  “ I have thousands of followers on social media” which is all well and good and pretty easy to achieve BUT… how many of those followers will actually be interested in the services or products provided by […]

Website still not mobile friendly? – Google’s going to penalize your business

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Still not mobile friendly? - Google's going to penalise your website

The importance of having a mobile-friendly website has never been so critical. For the past few years it has been increasingly important for your website to be mobile friendly – so that it looks pretty on a smaller screen. However Google is now going to show people which websites are mobile friendly and which ones aren’t […]

5 Simple steps to manage customer complaints on social media.

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Customer complaint

Deny everything – admit nothing – blame someone else… not quite what we’d advocate when dealing with a customer complaint. No business, brand or product gets everything right all the time and negative word of mouth happens. Customers are increasingly using  social media as a  tool to get their voice heard. If someone does post […]

Bluehoop Digital helps Marsden Packaging revamp its online presence

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Marsden Packaging website design

New look website designed for Marsden Packaging Leading packaging company Marsden Packaging has appointed Ilkley-based Bluehoop Digital to re-vamp its online presence. Market leaders in contract packaging, Marsden Packaging’s new website is reflective of the company’s increased investment within digital as a result of strong sales growth. Bluehoop Digital will help build Marsden Packaging’s digital […]

Jomil appoints Bluehoop Digital to stitch up online sales

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Jomil logo

Stitching up the web Bluehoop Digital Limited has been commissioned to re-design the website of Jomil, a Bradford-based wholesale craft and sewing supplies company. Jomil have been a leading supplier to the craft and sewing industry for more than thirty years and now need a website to be designed which allows their retail customers to browse […]

New website for community arts organisation

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Blaize website design Ilkley

Community arts website to reach a greater audience We’ve launched a new website for Blaize, a Yorkshire based community arts organisation. Blaize already had a website but it didn’t fully reflect the scope of the activities that they were involved with and it didn’t allow any scope for interactions with their online community. Bluehoop Digital […]

The last typewriters are made…

Typewriter

I wrote my first book on a Petite Typewriter. It was about a puppy and I was 9. When I say ‘book’, I mean about half a page. It joined the ranks of all the other unfinished literary greats that could have been. The world will never know how Pippy the Puppy will cope with […]