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Notes from the studio.
Field reports on AI, strategy, engineering and the craft of shipping premium digital. Written by the seniors doing the work.
How to Analyse Your Competitors Online: A Cyprus Guide
Your competitors' websites, ads and Google reviews are full of free lessons. Here is how any Cyprus business can analyse its rivals online in about an hour — no paid tools, no jargon — and turn what it learns into more customers.
Website Hosting for Cyprus Businesses: What Matters
Hosting is the cheapest line on your website quote and the one that quietly decides page speed, uptime and recovery time. A plain-English guide to shared vs VPS vs managed hosting, backups, and the three questions every Cyprus business owner should ask.
Website Maintenance: What Really Happens After Launch
Launch day is not the finish line. Here is what website maintenance really involves — updates, backups, speed checks and content accuracy — what it should cost a Cyprus business, and how to tell if your current setup is protecting you or quietly costing you customers.
Customer Testimonials That Actually Win New Business
Most business websites hide three vague quotes in a slider nobody reads. Here is how Cyprus businesses can collect specific, believable customer testimonials, where to place them so they are actually seen, and the EU review rules to stay on the right side of.
How to Choose a Domain Name in Cyprus: .com.cy or .com
Should your Cyprus business use .com or .com.cy? A plain guide to picking a domain name you will not regret, plus the boring checks that prevent disaster.
How Much Should a Cyprus Business Spend on Marketing?
Most marketing budgets are guessed, not calculated. Learn how to work your monthly figure backwards from what one customer is actually worth, how to split it 70/20/10, and the hidden costs owners forget to include.
Marketing to Tourists in Cyprus: A Practical Online Guide
Cyprus visitors plan, book and review entirely on their phones. Learn the three search windows tourists move through, the landmark keywords locals forget, and why your shoulder-season pages need writing during peak season.
Your Website on a Phone: What Cyprus Customers See
Most Cyprus businesses review their website on a desktop, but up to 80% of visitors arrive by phone — and Google ranks the mobile version. Here are the five faults that cost enquiries, plus a ten-minute self-check you can run today.
Should You Show Prices on Your Website? A Cyprus Guide
Most Cyprus businesses hide their prices and hope the phone rings. Here is what that really costs you in lost enquiries and wasted quoting time, plus four ways to publish pricing without committing to a single fixed number.
Speed to Lead: Why Replying Fast Wins More Customers
Most Cyprus businesses lose enquiries to the clock, not to competitors. Here is why the first hour after a form submission decides the sale, where the delay really comes from, and four fixes you can put in place this week without hiring anyone.
Landing Pages: Where Your Google Ads Budget Leaks Away
Plenty of clicks but no phone calls? The leak is usually not your Google Ads — it is the page they land on. A practical guide for Cyprus businesses to the four-second test, five fixes that pay for themselves, and why a better page also lowers your cost per click.
Why Your Business Emails Land in Spam (and the Fix)
Quotes, invoices and newsletters that vanish into spam cost Cyprus businesses real money. Here is why inboxes got stricter, what SPF, DKIM and DMARC actually do, and a plain-English checklist to get your email delivered again.