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Welcome to the part of the website where we share the good stuff — web design tips, small-business advice, branding ideas, marketing nuggets, and the occasional “why didn’t I know this sooner?” moment.
Everything here is written for real people running real businesses — no jargon, no fluff, no 300-page technical manuals. Just practical advice, mini-guides, and insights to help your business show up online and stand out for all the right reasons.
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🎩 Too many hats, not enough hours?
👋 Hey,Running a business means wearing every hat.You’re the marketer, admin, bookkeeper, customer service rep — sometimes all before lunch!That’s exactly how Sarah felt…Until she found a few clever tools that gave her time (and sanity) back. 🙌Let’s take a

Affordable Web Design: Helping Your Family Business Grow with Harris Consultancy
In today’s digital world, having a website is no longer optional—it’s essential. Whether you’re a small family-run bakery or a local plumbing business, your online presence can significantly impact your growth. But if you’re running a tight-knit, family-owned business, the

Introducing the Chinnor Village Centre Santa Tracker 🎅
Get ready for a sleighful of festive fun and community spirit! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Chinnor Village Centre Santa Tracker, an exciting new service brought to you by Harris Consultancy web design. This innovative tracker allows

The Benefits of Choosing One Company for Website Design and Hosting
In today’s digital age, a strong online presence is essential for businesses to thrive. This begins with having a well-designed website that not only captivates visitors but also provides a seamless browsing experience. When it comes to creating and maintaining

Is Your Website Performing? Ensure Fast, Secure Hosting with Harris Consultancy’s Bespoke Solutions.
Introduction In today’s digital age, a website is the face of any business, serving as the primary gateway for customers to engage with products or services. Is Your Website Performing? not all websites are created equal, and an essential factor
The Power of Intuitive and Simple Web Design
Introduction:In today’s fast-paced digital world, user experience plays a vital role in the success of any website. With attention spans growing shorter, users expect seamless, intuitive, and intuitive and Simple Web Design that guide them effortlessly toward their goals. This

Building Bespoke Websites
A website is the face of any online business, and having a website that converts visitors into customers is critical for business success. However, building bespoke websites that converts is not just about having a visually appealing website. It’s about

Magic of Simple Intuitive Web Design
An effective website design should fulfil its intended function by conveying its particular message whilst simultaneously engaging the visitor. Several factors such as consistency, colours, typography, imagery, simplicity, and functionality contribute to the Magic of Simple Intuitive Web Design. When

Website Showcase: Thame Midsomer Tours
Describe your business & your objectives Thame Midsomer Tours promotes and runs weekly tours from April to October around Thame filming locations used for the ITV show, Midsomer Murders, for the general public. It is a not-for-profit organisation operating under

Podcast – Top 10 Business Tips
Tune in to our insightful podcast where we unveil the essential business strategies for success! Crafted amidst the challenges of the pandemic, our discussions with TeaUniq aim to empower and uplift local businesses, providing valuable insights and guidance during these

Introducing PC & Mac Repair
Here at Harris Consultancy, we’ve always been focussed on making the most of our technology. Whether that is utilising and building award winning websites, creating unforgettable messages on social media or consulting on business process to ensure you run more

How To Support Local Business
As we ease out of lockdown our valuable and treasured local businesses will spring their doors open, and now is the time they will need all of our support. So how can we help and support our favourite high street

Top Ten Business Tips
For many starting a business during the pandemic has been about survival. For others an opportunity to start their dream venture due to consumer change of habit or lifestyle. There is no doubt the pandemic has changed our habits and

Dyslexia Support, Courses & Tuition
Harris Consultancy is delighted to announce we’re now offering courses & tuition in Computing & IT, Digital Marketing and Social Media. In addition we are also helping students and children with specific needs including Dyslexia support utilising assistive technology. Technology

Why Design Is My Story
In business we often talk about what we do, the services we offer and the products we sell. But we don’t often talk about why we do it, who we are and how we’ve got here. So, in this article

Free Website Design Offer
It’s a new year! Hooray I hear you shout! There is no hesitation that I’m sure that you’ll be pleased to see the back of 2020. Happy New Year and best wishes for 2021! We wanted to take this opportunity

AJRB IT Services Partnership
AJRB Services & Harris Consultancy has taken a further step towards its long-term goal of local and reliable partnerships. In the spirit of New Year’s resolutions, we are delighted to announce this partnership between our two companies that are equally

Working Together – Stronger Together
As this year comes to a close, we look back and reflect certainly a year that will never be forgotten, a year of coming together with family, friends, community and neighbours to support one another and to show strength in

Free Web Design Trial Offer
Harris Consultancy is offering businesses a free web design trial – Allowing you the opportunity to see what can be achieved when working with an award winning agency. If you supply us with text, imagery and your logo we will

Digital Excellence Delivered
As we brace ourselves not only for the cold winter months ahead, but the wider economic uncertainty emerging with COVID19 Harris Consultancy stands by our community to continue to offer support and deliver excellence. Our businesses must live and breath

Keeping Business Running Smoothly
In our previous articles we have talked about digital marketing, current trends and ways in which to strengthen your business foundations and prepare for what lies ahead. As well as providing award winning digital marketing services, we can also maintain

Strengthen Your Digital Foundations
This year has seen more and more businesses invest in their online presence; COVID19 has torpedoed the need to have a robust online digital strategy. A strategy that remains vigorous in these uncertain times, that offers flexibility to your client’s

Getting Back To Business
We do hope you and your family are safe and well, this has been a tremendously stressful time for us all. Over the last few months, we’ve been doing all we can to support our local communities, including marketing to

Colouring Competition
Harris Consultancy in conjunction with Chinnor Hub, a Facebook presence which serves the community of Chinnor (a village in South Oxfordshire) have created a Children’s colouring competition to assist parents with activities during these unprecedented times. Harris Consultancy have created

Marketing Might To Support Our Neighbours
When the COVID19 outbreak started to take hold, Chinnor Parish Council activated their emergency plan and we used our marketing might to help. Part of this plan is to setup “Street Friends” which are there to help if people need

Our Fight Against COVID19
Simply by installing software which runs in the background of our office computers while continuing to use it for our day to day activities, we’re helping to develop a treatment for the virus and determined in our Fight Against COVID19.

Look Local Partnership
Over a couple of Coconut Lattes and a slice of cake, it soon became very clear that there were significant synergies between Look Local Magazine and Harris Consultancy and that their company ethos and objectives complemented one another well. As

Harris Consultancy Becomes Award Winning
The Oxfordshire Prestige Awards celebrates small and medium-sized enterprises consisting of localised businesses and sole traders that have thrived in their highly competitive community and have proven their success. Over the past year 3,627 nominations were received by the awards