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On Friday Create held a fun, informal party at Brighton's Koba bar to celebrate hosting 10,000 online shops and websites.

We invited the extended Create family, including colleagues, customers, business partners and friends in the industry to help us round off a month of events and special offers in style.

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Lists, lists, lists. You can't move for them these days. If you don't use them in your business or day-to-day life you'll certainly see them plastered all over the web, thanks to their easy-to-digest, shareable and immediate nature (serious advice: consider writing an interesting list for your blog - you might find it grabs people's attentions quickly).

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With the sun finally showing its face, we can start to get on with the important business of being able to see just how many layers of dust have piled up on our mantelpieces, and thus embark on the annual Spring Clean. But spare a thought for your website, sitting online and working hard to get you customers. Perhaps it's time to get siteproud as well as houseproud?

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COMPETITION CLOSED. Congratulations to Jonathan Tilley for winning this book competition, and thanks to everyone who played along!

Last year Create member and business owner Joanne Dewberry published a fantastic book aiming to help those looking to turn a craft hobby into a viable business. This week we'll be giving away a copy of Crafting a Successful Small Business to one lucky person!

The book is filled with advice from the award-winning business blogger on where to sell and how to price your products, how to develop a unique and recognisable brand, how to use social media to market your business and much more.

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