April 2016
Over the last 14 years Newcastle marketing agency Urban River has built hundreds of websites and experienced firsthand the benefits of selling online. With UK online spend having risen by 11% in 2015 to over £114 billion; things don’t seem...
February 2016
If you’re looking to increase leads and sales by engaging with a results driven marketing agency like Urban River, there is now funding support to help you do just that. Through the new North East Business Support Fund (NEBSF)...
January 2016
Behold the Urban River A-Z Marketing Jargon Buster! We always promise to cut through the jargon and give you the facts, but unfortunately the marketing sector is rife with buzzwords and industry speak that only serves to bamboozle its...
January 2016
No one likes web spam, particularly when it clouds your ability to make accurate decisions. Having been asked by 2 clients recently about how to tidy up their Google Analytics and remove unwanted traffic, we’ve put together a quick...
November 2015
It is important for schools to have a professional and useful website. A school’s website can be used for keeping school staff, parents and pupils up to date with what is happening within the school community. Your school’s website...
November 2015
If you run your own driving school, you need to make sure that potential customers can easily find your business. Having a professional looking website is the first step of having an online presence. This is where your customers...
October 2015
As a service business, good customer care is essential and we wanted to put a few words together about what it means to us, and, more importantly, what it means to our clients. Earlier in the month we spent...
October 2015
Let’s face it – there are hundreds, possibly thousands of web design agencies to choose from. It makes the decision for companies to select their creative agency partners a lot more difficult and can result in false promises, customer...
September 2015
Branding is so important to your business. It’s not just your logo and it’s not just what your business looks like. It’s all about representing your core values as a company and includes logo, style, tone of voice, customer...
September 2015
South Tyneside – the proud home of the legend that is Catherine Cookson, the Arbeia Roman Fort and…us! But there is so much more to South Tyneside than the visitor attractions, the seafront and the fish and chips (seriously,...
September 2015
A branding is very important, especially to us as a Newcastle web design agency. It is normally the first point of contact for most of your customers/clients and forms a recognisable face to your business. In truth however, your...
August 2015
Creative web design – it’s something that doesn’t have many limitations nowadays, and thanks to higher resolution screens and increasing internet speeds, web designers are coming up with stunning visual ideas that make the most of their online space....