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Things worth writing down
Everything here is written by the people who did the work, about the work. No guest posts, no borrowed statistics, and no article that exists only to hold a keyword.
Software
Nobody in this industry publishes prices. We do. Here is exactly what the cheapest one buys.A line-by-line account of what our £600 landing page includes, what it does not, and when a business genuinely needs the £1,200 or £2,400 version instead. Real published prices, no enquiry form.Read itMost broken websites have four cheap problems. You do not need to pay anybody to find them.Twelve checks you can run on your own website in five minutes, what each one means in plain English, and roughly what it costs to fix. Free tool included, no email required.Read itThe brief that gets an accurate quote fits on one page. Most people send five, or half of one.A free one-page website design brief template you can fill in and send to any agency. No email required. Plus the eight questions that decide whether the quotes you get back are worth comparing.Read it
Logistics
Every forwarder has one file that would cost them a client if it went missing. Start there.Spreadsheets run a great many freight forwarders, and for a while that is the right answer. Here are the five signs it has stopped being the right answer, and which spreadsheet to replace first.Read itEvery freight software website shows you the dashboard. Nobody shows you the boring things that decide whether it works.A checklist for choosing freight forwarding software, written by a team that built one and runs it inside a working forwarder. What the demo will not show you, and the questions that separate a system people use from one they work around.Read it
Illustration
The artwork came back wrong. Nine times out of ten the problem was in the brief, not the artist.A practical checklist for briefing an illustrator, from a studio with artists in house. What to include, what to leave out, and the three things to agree in writing before anybody starts drawing.Read itTwo studios quote £200 and £2,000 for the same picture. Neither of them is lying.What illustration actually costs in the UK in 2026, why two quotes for the same brief can differ tenfold, and the three things that move the price more than the drawing does. Real published rates, no enquiry form.Read it
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