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If your quotes, invoices or newsletters keep landing in spam, missing email authentication is the first thing to check. What SPF, DKIM and DMARC each do, how to find every service that sends as your domain, the exact DNS records to add, how to move DMARC from monitoring to enforcement safely, and how to test it.
Shopify handles hosting and the CDN, so when a store is slow the cause is almost always the theme, the apps and the media you added. How to measure speed the way Google does, find what is actually slowing the store down, fix images, apps, fonts and scripts in the right order, and keep it fast after the next app install.
A cookie banner that blocks everything on 'reject' quietly deletes a third of your data. Consent Mode v2 is how Google's tools keep receiving signals — anonymous, cookieless — so conversions can still be modelled. What the four consent signals are, who legally needs this, basic vs advanced mode, the WordPress setup, and how to test it properly.
Most churn is decided in the first fortnight, before any work is judged — by how organised the start felt. A 14-day onboarding sequence you can automate: the welcome, the intake that actually gets completed, access collection, the kick-off call, the week-one win, and the 30-day check. With the CRM build and the handover pack.
Around seven in ten carts are abandoned, and most of those people wanted to buy. Recovery is the cheapest revenue in e-commerce: capture the email early, send three well-timed messages, and fix the checkout problems that caused it. The WooCommerce setup, the exact sequence and copy, SMS and WhatsApp, consent rules, and realistic recovery rates.
Zapier and Make charge per unit of work; n8n charges per executed workflow, or nothing at all if you host it yourself. That changes the maths at volume — and adds a server to your life. The honest comparison of cost, capability, AI features and maintenance, the four situations where self-hosting pays, and what it takes to run it safely.
If you travel to customers, you have no address to rank — and Maps favours proximity you cannot change. What you can change is the website: real location pages, the right structure, areaServed schema and internal links. How many pages to build, what must be on each one, how to avoid the doorway-page trap, and the order to do it in.
A landing page has one job and about eight seconds to do it. The section-by-section anatomy that works for service businesses, the five copy blocks that carry the page, form design that lifts completion, what to test first and in what order, realistic conversion benchmarks, and the mistakes that quietly halve results.
Quotes for the same brief come back at £500 and £15,000, and neither party explains why. Here is what you are actually paying for, honest ranges for each tier from DIY to custom application, the five things that move a quote most, the ongoing costs nobody mentions, and how to get three quotes you can actually compare.