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Do you really need a logo? After building websites for hundreds of dealers, we’re not convinced. Here’s why a great font can often do the job better, and what to avoid if you do decide to have a logo.

September's double referral bonus went down so well that we're extending it through October! Recommend us to someone and they'll get 75% off the setup fee and you'll get £100 paid to you, plus £10/month off your monthly fee for each client you refer *

Visitors to a fair see hundreds of items in a day. Give them a way to take yours home. Print price labels and display cards for your stock in seconds, each with a QR code that opens the item on your website; every photograph, every detail, saved straight to their phone.

Sharing is caring. We've existed for over 20 years by looking after our clients, and in turn they recommend us. By recommending us they'll get 75% off the setup fee and you'll get £100 paid to you, plus £10/month off your monthly fee for each client you refer *

Still think a bespoke website is the way to go? Here's an honest look at why an off-the-shelf site is the smarter choice for most dealers in 2026.

Say hello to Sian, the newest member of the team! She's joining us as a Website Sales & Customer Advisor, working alongside Liv to help you get the most from your website. Read on to find out more about her.

Still photographing your items one at a time? Discover the simple styling trick that lets one photo sell two, three, even four pieces at once, plus how to link your descriptions together to seal the deal.

Don't let interested customers disappear after a fair. Learn how our dealer app helps you instantly share item details, collect email addresses and stay in touch long after the event ends.

Learn how to use our “pending to go live” feature to schedule your antiques stock in advance, build anticipation with your clients, and coordinate your website with fairs, mailshots and social media for maximum impact.

Google Shopping can help militaria dealers grow their businesses online. This article explains what Google Shopping is, and how we can help you cheaply and easily integrate your website with it

Including website setup, instagram management, and our specialist online marketplaces. Read the article for details

Sharing is caring. We've existed for 20 years by looking after our clients, and in turn they recommend us. By recommending us they'll get 75% off the setup fee and you'll get £100 paid to you, plus £10/month off your monthly fee for each client you refer *

Hashtags were once the secret to Instagram growth, but in 2025 their power has faded. They still have a few smart uses — if you know when and how to use them. Here is what has changed and what still works.

We welcome Will to the team and have some exciting news to share about Lydia

Instagram have recently announced that content from professional Instagram's accounts will be allowed to show in search engines (such as Google and Bing). This could be great news for your business, but you'll need to make sure you follow a few tips to make the most of it.

Discover 10 simple and effective ways to promote your website and start getting real visitors. From email marketing and SEO tips to Google tools and social media tricks, this guide will help you turn your site into a powerful magnet for traffic and sales.

When it comes to selling militaria stock on an online shop, your product descriptions aren't just filler; they're sales tools. And thanks to advances in AI, writing them just got a whole lot easier.

We’re shining a light on four great features from our LARGE plan that many website shop owners aren’t using enough and explaining how each one can help bring more visitors to your website and sell more stock.

Think follower count is everything? Think again! We’re busting 6 common Instagram myths and sharing tips that actually work to help you grow your account the right way.

For March and April 2025 we're offering double referral bonus and discounts off your monthly fee! Read on for details

Of course you do…! That’s why we’re making uploading pictures even quicker. Read on to hear more about it.

Another choice of payment service provider has been added to our eCommerce website platform; SumUp. With rates as low as 0.99% and next day payout. Read more for details.

We have a new option on our websites allowing our clients to sell digital products on their websites. Read for more information.

Read about how we've increased engagement for a recently client with our instagram management service.

Best practices if changing your company name to make sure you don't disappear

Introducing our new social media management service (focusing mainly on Instagram, and then Facebook) to help militaria dealers grow their businesses online, easily

Details of updates to our mobile app including being able to easily share items, faster speeds when you have lots of stock, and several other updates. Read more for details

I almost can't believe it myself, but today is our 20th birthday! Read more to learn about our history, what we've been up to for the past 20 years, and what we have planned for the future

We are delighted to let you know that Liv (Olivia) will soon be returning from maternity leave. Jed is also taking a quick sabbatical over the summer. Details in the article!

Sharing is caring. We've existed for 20 years by looking after our clients, and in turn they recommend us. By recommending us they'll get 75% off the setup fee and you'll get £100 paid to you, plus £10/month off your monthly fee for each client you refer *

Easily manage your stock, website, enquiries and marketplaces on our new mobile app

However, what if I were to tell you if there was a genuine and easy way you could increase sales by 27%, increase the average value of orders by 41%, and increase purchase frequency by 36% with one simple thing....?

Good photography and video are vital in selling stock online. Whether you use an iPhone or digital camera, your lighting has to be spot-on. Get some of our latest tips in this blog article

We dispel the myths promoted in countless spammy emails circulating the web recently. Rather than falsely promising you the world in a ploy to steal your money, we buck the trend of the scammers and instead recommend the steps that will genuinely provide results.

Emma joins us as a valuable addition in customer service and sales where she will be working alongside Liv who will be going on maternity leave around late August/early Sept

Reduce your monthly fee by recommending us to people you know

Elevate your online presence and captivate potential buyers using videos of your items. Our new video feature makes it easy to upload videos to your item pages.

Avoid PayPal scams... I look at the latest PayPal scam making its rounds on the internet and explain how it works, how to avoid it, and how not to get scammed.

We've just launched a new design theme (template) for ready made websites for antiques, art & vintage dealers. This new off the shelf template is called "Bakewell". It has a fully customisable colour scheme, a flexible home page layout, and simple yet sophisticated looks.

Matteo has moved to Derby to work at ph9 as a junior web developer. Welcome!

Why buying instagram followers is a BAD idea, why it'll ruin your instagram account, and what you should do instead.

According to research from authoritative organisations such as Knight Frank, Deloitte, ArtTactic, Market decipher, Antique Sage, UBS Investor Watch and many more, investors are increasing looking to put funds into collectibles such as Antiques, Art, Wine and....

“It’s so easy to use and it definitely helps divert traffic to my website. From the customer's perspective it’s really beneficial to instantly see all of the information there and then, e.g the price etc instead of having to search for the item on the website.”

For each client you refer we'll give you £50 (straight into your bank account) and £5/month off your monthly fee, plus we'll give the person you're referring 10% off their setup fee too!

Free stock imports from 1st Dibs, 2Covet, Antiques Atlas, BADA, Chairish, Concept 500, Decorative Collective, LAPADA, Love Antiques, Selling Antiques, The Hoarde or Vinterior

We explain the quickest and easiest ways to get pictures from your camera or phone onto your computer so you can edit them and upload to your website.

Many of our dealers now use an iPhone to take their pictures and we have compiled these 8 tips of how to take better photography of your pieces with your iPhone, including a really important overlooked tip.

We sometimes get asked by our web design clients to put background music on their website. Our immediate answer is "bad idea!". In this blog article we explain the reasons why.

Hopefully this Christmas will be a lot more sociable and festive than the last one!

The internet and how we promote our websites is constantly changing, theres always new hoops to jump through and new methods to adopt. I've collated 4 of these for you that are relevant to your Antiques business. Read on for more

I have recently been asked to provide a blog post on how to create short links - So here it is!

You all know I love to answer questions and so here is another commonly asked question... What is Google Analytics and how do I use it?

We've done plenty of posts talking about how to ge traffic to your website but we thought we would dedicate a post to ways you can get traffic to your website competely free.

Some of our lovely clients have now switched over and have started to use our new design themes. Read on to see how they've made them their own.

Have you been racking your brain trying to think of ways you can innovate with your email marketing? Read on to get some new idea of the types of mailshots you can send out to get subscribers back to your website

To go along with our new theme releases, I thought a great idea would be to create more colour scheme inspirations. Read on to get your creative juices flowing

Our websites now integrate with 'Stripe' and so it's easier than ever to take payments through our websites.

Did you know you can now have a virtual tour on your website?

Here we are with another round-up of new features! We've released some cracking ones so we hope you enjoy them.

Do you want to know how to encourage more of your website visitors to buy from your website? Read on for 10 ways to help encourage sales through your website

There are 3 key evolutions of the human brain and they each play a key part in how we see the world. Read on to find out how these come into play when viewing your website

See "Cromford"; the third of three new design themes (templates) we've launched for our off the shelf websites for Antiques Dealers.

"Carsington" is the second of three new design themes (templates) we've launched for our off the shelf websites for Antiques Dealers.

One of three new design themes (templates) we've created for our off the shelf websites for antiques dealers.

Should you use images with a white-out background?

Today we're looking at 4 affordable photo editing and graphic creation applications you can use for easy editing of your images for your website!

If you've had trouble accessing your emails through gmail.com today, were unable to watch funny cat videos on YouTube, couldn't find your way on Google Maps, or couldn't access your files on Google Drive then you weren't the only one.

Has taking card payments through your website always been something you've wanted to try but haven't because you thought it would be too complicated? Well I'm here to tell you that it's not what you think... It's super simple and even easier if you're using one of our websites.

Offering collection is rapidly becoming an essential part of the online shopping experience. But the question is, is this something you offer?

With it being announced this past weekend that we are indeed heading back into lockdown, have you ensured that your business is lockdown proof?

Instagram is the social platform on every dealers lips! But are you utilising all of it's fantastic features? Instagram shopping is taking the app by storm. Read on to find out how you can integrate it with our off the shelf websites

You might have heard about Pinterest and that you should probably should be using it. Our website integrate with Pinterest and make it so that sharing to Pinterest is super easy and quick to do. Read on to find out more

The internet is an integral part of most of ours lives these days and theres nothing more frustrating than your internet going on a go slow! We've got some tips on how to speed it up, just carry on reading!

There can be a lot of barriers to making sales on your website, often times without you even realising it. Sales are our ultimate goal right? So let's look at some of those barriers and what you can do about them

You may be wondering why this requires a whole blog post, but believe it or not a lot of people write their phone number incorrectly on their website for international clients. Which can of course cost you enquiries or even sales... Read on to find out more!

There's no mystery behind effectively refreshing your web browser... In fact it's so easy a baby could do it! And she did. Read on to find out how

There is no single thing that triggers a spam filter, there are dozens! So I wrote a follow up from 'Are your email mailshots being trapped by a spam filter?' - How to get your emails through junk mail filters!

I often get asked whether it's best to have images switch the backgrounds cut out, or whether you should keep the backgrounds, or use lifestyle/styled images. So I thought a great article to write would be one breaking this down for you all.

It has been proven that offering free delivery on your website can increase your sales by 10% or more. Read on to find out more!

It's really simple to set up a website with us and there has never been a better time to do it. With us all being confined to our houses you have the opportunity to really knuckle down and dedicate the time to it that you've never had before.

How to ensure your emails don't end up in junk mail. This article explains why it might be happening to you, and what to do about it

The Google Chrome browser is now warning users of slow loading pages before they have even clicked on the page. Read on to find out details

As you know, we pride ourselves on updating and upgrading our websites frequently. So here's some of what's new...

In this article I'll explain the importance of inbound linking, and why it is a MAJOR component of being found organically on Google.

We recently made some improvements to the websites which have changed the way images load on the websites. Read on to find out details about how we've improved the image sizing on sites

Instagram stories - What are they and why should you use them?

Choosing the right domain name can be tricky. What is the right domain name? Should it have a certain amount of characters? Should it contain keywords? These are all things I've been asked in regard to clients choosing a great domain name for their website, so read on to find out how to choose yours

Another commonly asked question is... How do I build an email marketing list? Here are 6 ways to help you start collecting email addresses

So your website has just gone live... Now what? Here's some idea's on how to make your first sale through your website

Have you been wondering whether you should use Email marketing? Not sure what it's about or if it's worth your time? Well it 100% is! Read on to find out why it's super important to send out your latest items

I get asked all the time about blogging... 'Should I do it?' 'Will it benefit my business?' 'Do I have the type of business that requires blogging?' and the answer is yes, yes and YES! Read more to find out how blogging can benefit you, and how to do it

The .uk version of your domain name will become available for anyone to buy on 25th June 2019. Secure it before somebody else does!

We get many questions around WordPress so we decided to answer a few of those and tell you why we don't recommend using it for your business website

We passionately believe in technology being easy to use which is why we've now launched WorldPay integration to make it easier to take debit and credit card payments

On a whole we see less enquiries on websites which don’t display prices versus websites which do display prices. BUT WHY? Read on to find out more