About thesiteguide.com and Patricia Davidson

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About thesiteguide.com

I launched thesiteguide.com in 2003 with the aim of bringing together all the best online shopping boutiques for Designer Fashion, Luxury Skincare and Cosmetics, Decorative Homewares, Gifts and Pampering Treats, put them all under one attractive roof and create a service that made shopping online quicker, easier and much more of a pleasure.

Searching can be a real bore. We all know that there's a mountain of information available on the web, and that mountain's growing bigger by the day. Most of us have little time or inclination to trail through the thousands of sites we're offered every time we're looking for something. Almost no-one goes beyond page two of search results even if those first two pages don't take you to where you want to go.

At thesiteguide.com we've made searching for products, specific shops or brands easier than ever - with excellent, mostly tried and tested retailers just waiting to show you their products over a wide range of categories. Some of these you'll probably have heard of, and others we're sure you won't have.

Of course there are more out there, so don't forget to keep checking back to our Latest Websites section to keep up to date, and reading the blog at Glamoursleuth.

Sign up on our Home Page for our free newsletter if you'd like to be the first to learn of new shopping website launches and exclusive special offers, and don't forget to email me at patricia@thesiteguide.com if you find a great website we haven't yet included. Your feedback is always invaluable.

The Prize Draw - we've had some fantastic prizes, from a stay at a Champneys Spa, Aspinal of London handbags, Vouchers for Astley Clarke, Jewellery by Theo Fennell and a £1000 voucher for Bunny Hug Boutique. You'll be automatically entered in most of our Prize Draws unless there are special entry rules - and we'll tell you about those.

About Patricia Davidson

For twelve years I worked in mail order designer fashion and online marketing, introducing UK and international designers such as Joseph, Nicole Farhi, Jean Muir, Amanda Wakeley and Cerruti to direct marketing for the first time.

In 2003 I launched thesiteguide.com and in 2005 I wrote my first book; The Shopaholic's Guide to buying online which was published in 2006, since which I have written six further books. The latest are The Shopaholic's Top 1000 Websites, and The Gift Book.

I've been interviewed as an online shopping expert by BBC Breakfast, BBC2 Working Lunch, Lorraine Kelly at GMTV and Sky Breaksfast, and also by Vanessa Feltz, Jeremy Vine, Chris Evans (for BBC Radio) and Jeremy Skidmore for The Times Online. I've written features and columns for Red Magazine, the Sunday Express, The Daily Mail, Easy Living Magazine Online and other publications.

I launched my e-consultancy in 2007 to help retailers improve their websites and obtain better results. I work with a lot of small to medium sized retailers on a one-off basis, and I'm a retained consultant for www.shop.com and www.ekomi.co.uk. Don't hesitate to contact me - phd@thesiteguide.com, if you'd like to know more.