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Big Roast – It is all worth it

So it hasn’t been the best of weeks in certain areas. Some of the businesses have had a few creaks, some people issues and other ‘things’ to be resolved. All part and parcel of the flotsam & jetsam of modern business life. Then the idiot goes and rips his ankle to pieces on a tennis [...]

Varidesk UK website launches

Rt7 became involved in the VARIDESK venture through a long standing connection in the USA, and today we are soft-launching the VARIDESK UK website. In January 2013 we helped with the roll-out of the VARIDESK brand in the USA, and after a successful initial period in the USA we are today soft launching the VARIDESK [...]

Google Photo Sphere

Playing around with the functionality of Google Photo Sphere on a wordpress website. Jelly Bean 4.2 added quite a few improvements to the Android experience, but arguably the most exciting feature is the ability to create a Photo Sphere. Unfortunately, taking and viewing these 360-degree panoramic images has been a limited experience at best. The [...]

Worst liquidation payout in history

Worst liquidation payout in history …… AKA …….. why do we give some customers credit. Receiving company liquidation letters from solicitors is not my favourite thing in the world to happen to us but like rainy days and traffic jams – shit happens sometimes. Businesses over-extend themselves, their customers don’t pay them and the doors [...]

New website for St Josephs Residence

Rt7 were pleased to be asked to work on the rebuild of a website for St Josephs Residence in Dallas by a friend in the USA. We were the web part of a team drawn from friends and co-workers who thought that the charity needed some help online. The team have beta launched the website [...]

Corkcicle Awards celebrations | We wait with baited breath

Our wholesale brand – Root7 – is in the runnings to pick up Corkcicle Awards tonight at the annual Housewares Conference in the UK. The Housewares Magazine and housewareslive.net have a long history of creating successful events for the housewares industry: the Housewares Conference, the Product of the Year Awards, and the Britain’s Best Retailer [...]

ABC for Life website launched | Charity Work

Since basing our family in South Africa, my wife has become involved with a community outreach project called ABC for Life which seeks to assist disadvantages school children in written and verbal English schools. Using a base of teachers from the Harbour Heights community in Hout Bay, the scheme encourages volunteers from across Hout Bay [...]

Root7 Original Website | Tripping down memory lane

We were fortune enough to bump in the first ever iteration of the Root7 original website this week – designed back in 1999. Root7 was a fairly different company back then but we think that the site holds up some 14 years later. Apologies for the wording – we were young. Click on the image [...]

Birando South Africa launched | Online Retail

Rt7 have today launched their flagship retail website in South Africa building on the back of our retail websites in the UK and USA. Birando South Africa is initially supplying parts of the range of that we stock through our UK distribution company – Root7 - and will also be stocking part of our party-ware [...]

Google Teaching The Basics of Search

Google teaching the basics of search engine optimisation – surely they wouldn’t. Oh yes they have. Over the years we have learnt (and continue to learn) is a whole load on what search engines want from websites – and how this affects the rankings of search engines for any particular query. We have researched, practiced [...]

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