Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Facebook the list of social media sites that businesses are now using to engage with their audience and build brand awareness goes on. Building a social media campaign for your business can be a very time consuming process and as a small business the chances are that you don’t have time to…
Small digital firms who are looking to develop their businesses online can apply for a share of £30m funding available through the Technology Strategy Board via competitions. The Creative Skillset and Sector Skills Council is also providing funding for the development of personal skills via training in a hope to develop the industry further. More…
If you have a Facebook account be it commercial or private, you will no doubt have seen all the recent cartoon ‘strips’ featured frequently in your timeline in what is the latest ‘online fad’ in sharing content… The BITSTRIP crew describe themselves as developing the software that allows you to create ‘Instant comics starring you…
“Helping people discover what they don’t know – they wanted” With over 48 million users, Pinterest is one of the hottest top new online social networks. Yet, many business owners are still unsure about it. Pinterest is seen to be a scrapbook or pin board for saving images and links, but in reality for…
Most companies have some kind of email communication for customers & subscribers, be, it regular newsletters bursting with news or promotional eshots with a special offer – but are they getting opened and read? The reason people/ businesses subscribe to newsletters and email news is so that they can receive opt-in, interesting news, special features,…
For ambitious businesses, building a great story and enhancing reputation through the local media to any growing firm to reach new audiences and engage proactively through third-party promotion is a must! But, being in PR is not easy; it is known to be one of the most stressful jobs around… A PR executive is someone…
Managing a firm’s Social Media department, even for the smallest company is no easy task. When you consider what it really takes to effectively manage a corporate Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest or YouTube channel, juggling strategies, tools, apps, keeping up with the latest trends in online growing networks or tweet-chats, it’s easy a full time…
Are you like one of the many companies in the UK that are on tipping point of huge success, despite the lack of economic growth? I was in a meeting the other week with a prospect client who had found us via LinkedIn. They were interested in speaking to us about our PR managed services…
Outsourced marketing is the art of handing over the entire marketing demands of a company to a third party. Outsourced marketing involves using a marketing agency to manage the marketing for your organisation. Outsourced marketing can have many benefits. It frees up your time, gives you access to expert marketers and can reduce overheads.Your outsourced…
Facebook introduction of #hashtags came into force in June 2013, with the aim to ‘tag’ onto what the rest of social media sites have been doping for years…As a new introduction from Facebook, hashtags are still somewhat incomplete with many users still not able to fully gain access to the searchable and clickable links, having…