Writing for your business is not an easy task but it’s something a lot of small business owners have to do. While I’d always advise investing in a copywriter (of course I would – I am one) it IS possible to handle small-scale copy yourself. You just need to make sure you don’t make mistakes […]
I’ve got Canva GIFs on the brain, people. I love Canva, it’s no secret. Easy graphic creation for people with no skill and no budget, lovely. But up until now, I’ve never paid for it – I didn’t really need to. Even with the lure of a free image bank and magical image resizing to […]
Nudgestock is a conference about behavioural economics. A ‘nudge’ in psychology is something that pushes someone into action without them even noticing – because it plays on their behavioural biases. These biases can be used to guide your marketing decisions. Sometimes it’s the bias of your potential customer…and sometimes it’s your own bias you need […]
Google does not willingly share too many of its own search metrics but a data survey by Jumpshot with analysis from Rand Fishkin of Sparktoro (SEO legend) revealed a thing or two. In the first quarter of 2019, Google in the US had more than 150 billion searches, the majority of which were solved without […]
We humans are pretty good at linguistic ambiguity. We’ve been mastering the art of communication through words since the day we were born – it’s our life’s work. Emojis, however, are a bit of a plot twist. It’s been hundreds of years since the common man had to rely so heavily on pictures to interpret […]
An Instagram survey of 21,000 regular users aged 13 to 64 found that 87% of people had taken action after seeing a product on the platform – clicking through to buy or doing research elsewhere. Considering that Instagram says its 400 million active users spend 53 minutes a day scrolling through their feeds, that’s a […]
SEO isn’t just about directly selling products. The objective of brand SEO is to create a network of STUFF that supports a customer’s decision-making process. Customers searching for your brand should find a whole lot of places in which your ethos, services, products and reputation are explorable. Getting your brand name onto page one of […]
What’s a social PR campaign? It takes the goals of a traditional PR campaign – raising brand awareness and sentiment – but keeps costs down and activity in-house. It’s PR for the digital age and the minimal budget. The beauty of free community platforms for our brands is that even a small business can run […]
Simple answer, as it often is: Google. Your website product images have always been an SEO factor – user experience, relevance to search, size, structure in the page, accessibility…the list goes on. But there’s a whispered 2019 Google algorithm change you should know about. Visual search is very much here. Google algorithm change for images […]
Buying followers is so 2015. For one thing: no one’s believing your new business went from two followers (you and your mum) to 5,000 overnight. For another, Twitter has had several widely-publicised culls of fake accounts. And if you’re buying followers, that’s what you’re getting. The solution? Have a Twitter account that’s actually good. Yeah, […]