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REJOICE! Openreach to legally separate from BT

This is a truly remarkable day if you rely on BT Openreach to supply your broadband, after many years Ofcom have got their way and it can only be for the good. For decades Openreach (the infrastructure division of BT) have under achieved leaving millions of businesses and homes without the broadband they deserve. In fact we still have clients in East Kent on not much better than ‘dial-up’ in rural areas. “This is a significant day for phone and broadband users,” said Ofcom chief executive Sharon White. “The new Openreach will be built to serve all its customers equally, working truly independently and taking investment decisions on behalf of...

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Legitimate emails going to junk folders

Just had a client complaining that here marketing emails to bulk and individual recipients are not being delivered, or going to the junk folder! The samples we looked at were OK but contained ‘trigger’ words (and attachments) that some spam detection software will pick up like ‘special offer’ for example. There are probably more reasons why a message shouldn’t reach its destination than you can imagine, a long list of tick boxes every message has to get through. Using a public email address is almost certain to get filtered (like a yahoo or hotmail acc). Some attachments are not accepted, email formatting comes into the equation as well. Government and...

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New WordPress website design for Dover Taxi company

We took over a 3rd party WordPress website design for Richards Taxis Dover last year so the client was already familiar with the WordPress editing platform and how WordPress works, but the design was old and a bit tired so the client asked us to re-design the web pages. To complete we needed to find new images plus the client was purchasing new vehicles so we needed to convert images from a phone camera. We sourced free images from our online library, but we also contacted Dover DC marketing who also supplied copyright free imagery. There was also an issue with the logo as we didn’t have an original file...

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Every considered Radio advertising?

We’ve just completed an intro meeting with The KM Group Radio advertising guys and was quietly surprised how affordable local radio advertising can be. Take a look at the tariff on offer (March 2017) and this marketing booklet PDF. KM have 7 transmitters in Kent which allows the client to select marketing areas, interested? contact us for more and a referral to the marketing exec. Prices include commercial production using single voice and library music. 7 day package on single FM transmitter 5 x 30 second commercials per day £299 + vat 10 day package on single FM transmitter 5 x 30 second commercials per day £349 + vat 4...

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Advert design for local residential home

We’ve been supplying web and print design to Bradfield Residential Residential Home (Walmer) for many years now. We don’t profile advert design on our web pages as there isn’t much call for this work these days but if a client requests a design using the graphic elements we already have on archive, we can create a nice design quickly and at a competitive price. This particular ad featured in 2 titles, Northbourne Park School mag and The KM group Care Supplement. As usual the KM advert was on a tight deadline but the artwork was completed and delivered in the right formats on time. Print design is totally different from...

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East Kent based wedding video company – new website design

The wedding trades in Kent are a great bunch of guys to design websites for, they call them ‘the wedding mafia’ because they work in packs, hunting down that elusive prey – the loving couple!   Why are they a great bunch to work for? They know exactly what they want and on the whole, supply top quality imagery, videos and copy. They are also on very tight budgets because this is one of the business sectors that’s shrinking, that’s ideal for us at OHM with our best price policy for website design in Kent. Chris Hewitt, owner of Kent Wedding Video is no exception to the rules offering couples...

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Ashford charity website re-design

It’s always a pleasure to create WordPress websites for community and charity groups in Kent, adhd treatment centre, Ashford and Tenterden Umbrella charity has been no exception with the second re-incarnation of their website design in 4 years. The change to mobile and Google SEO friendly designs was a major factor for charity leaders Eddie and Val who personally work tirelessly against KCC budget cut to provide a safe haven for those less fortunate. Here at OHM we support all Kent charities and community group websites with discounted hosting, design and free support to ensure a website is a low burden on the budget Good luck to Ashford and Tenterden...

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New B and B accommodation website in Great Mongeham

It’s always nice to get a website design commission from a business based in your own village – Great Mongeham. My wife and I have walked past The Old Rectory many times and our children have attended the same schools, so it was a nice surprise to get the call and approval to create a B and B accommodation website for this beautiful Kent property – coming soon see website: the-old-rectory-b-and-b-deal.co.uk

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Drone demonstration at Oast House media in Kent

Website design client Ryan Holah of Renowned Roofing contacted us last year and asked me to set up a demonstration with a local drone pilot, Ryan could see the potential of a drone when completing roof surveys, especially awkward or big projects like factories and warehouses. We spoke to Dave Sander – Kent Drone Filming and we arranged a demo here at Farm Cottage just outside of Deal in Kent. The drone and controls came in a hand luggage style bag and was put together in just a few minutes. After a few check the drone was in the air within 10 minutes of taking up a launch position. Watch...

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New SEO website and business partners

SEO is the second most important element of a web page. It’s a generalisation because SEO (search engine optimisation) covers many on and off page attributes. Here at Oast House Media we’ve realised for some time that delivering a nice web page design is not enough and to expect a website with basic page content and links to achieve a Google page one position is pie in the sky. Websites need SEO and lots of it, stop smoking products, not only to get onto page one and stay there – but because everyone else on page one is also optimising their web pages. Over the past few years SEO has...

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