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The Studio Cotton Blog

Industry Insights

A peaksy behind the curtain of the small business and website design industries from the team at Studio Cotton

Writing notes for Studio Cotton.
Industry Insights

21 projects we’ve completed in 2023

New websites, traffic-driving blogs, and two new products we're dead proud of
11 January 2024
Industry Insights, Web Design

Coming from a student, should you pursue website design as a career?

13 July 2023
Industry Insights

10 Instagram accounts sharing small business advice and unmissable expertise

2 March 2023
Industry Insights

59 small business owners share their goals for 2023

21 December 2022
Industry Insights

8 small business owners tell us what they would do if Santa Claus gave them £5,000

15 December 2022
Web Design, Industry Insights

6 very big things a brand new top-of-the-range website can’t fix in a small business

6 December 2022
Content & Copywriting, Industry Insights

16 frighteningly popular sales tactics that work ghoulishly well (and might just be some bright, blood-red flags)

26 October 2022
Industry Insights

Why our web design company’s new type of client disheartens the heck out of me

24 October 2022
Industry Insights

6 members of our small business community spill beans on what they love from their memberships

26 August 2022
Industry Insights

Spec work: an icky practice exploiting creatives that you NEED to know about

22 June 2022
Industry Insights

How the WECA logo design competition exploits and devalues creatives

16 February 2022
Industry Insights, Marketing

35 small business owners tell us why they’ve fallen out of love with Instagram in 2022

7 February 2022
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Industry Insights

The 6 crucial enquiry criteria we review before saying yes to a website design project

Congrats to all of our clients who got through these dealbreakers.
18 January 2022
Industry Insights

The three best investments I have made in my small business

20 July 2020
Industry Insights

5 things to scrimp on (and 5 to splurge on) when you’re starting a small creative business

3 October 2019
Industry Insights

Bristol Life Magazine, and how not to sell ads to small business owners

27 September 2019
Industry Insights

6 reasons why my marketing agency won’t work with your brand

It's awkward, but always worth talking about. Here's 6 reasonable rejections that hurt none-the-less
2 July 2019
Industry Insights

Marketing agencies are guff at marketing

17 June 2017
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