<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Sage on Afroleft</title><link>https://afroleft.com/tag/sage/</link><description>Recent content in Sage on Afroleft</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2015 08:51:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://afroleft.com/tag/sage/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Shortcuts You Can’t Take</title><link>https://afroleft.com/shortcuts-you-cant-take/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:50:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://afroleft.com/shortcuts-you-cant-take/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Last month &lt;a href="http://www.sage.co.uk"&gt;Sage&lt;/a&gt; approached me asking if I could write an article on marketing for their small business community.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;To narrow the context a bit, I concentrated on marketing websites. The outcome of which I&amp;rsquo;m really pleased with. &lt;a href="http://www.sage.co.uk/blog/index.php/2013/11/shortcuts-you-cant-take/"&gt;The short post&lt;/a&gt; offers an insight into my past 5 years of researching, designing, building and iterating marketing websites for clients. What works / what doesn’t; all brought to life with three tiny case studies from a few of my longstanding clients.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Bootstrapping vs. Barry</title><link>https://afroleft.com/bootstrapping-vs-barry/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:23:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://afroleft.com/bootstrapping-vs-barry/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A few months ago I was asked by &lt;a href="http://sage.co.uk/"&gt;Sage&lt;/a&gt; to be one of their business experts. Thinking that sounded a bit like something from &lt;a href="http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/166301/the-office-dance-o.gif"&gt;The Office&lt;/a&gt;, I asked what the role would involve.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;The team explained that I&amp;rsquo;d be rolling my sleeves up and helping the business community by sharing my understanding of the web, design, marketing and business in general. I welcomed the opportunity.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Last week they published &lt;a href="http://www.sage.co.uk/blog/index.php/2013/07/bootstrapping-vs-barry/"&gt;my first post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;“How Barry raised investment, risked everything and faced bankruptcy before turning his company into a multi-million pound operation…”&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>