The articles in our Knowledge Centre aim to help you decide on the best digital marketing mix for your business. From Website Design to Pay-Per-Click, Social Media to Video Marketing, our team of independent digital marketing experts share their latest advice, tips and know-how via their regularly updated blogs.
I was grumpy in the extreme when I started being bombarded with phrases like ‘TikTok strategy’ and having my nice Instagram Discover feed infiltrated by chirpy teens sharing their new-age Vines. Now, I gave Snapchat a go. I did. I downloaded it, had a look about and decided it wasn’t for me. Or the business […]
App user experience (UX) is all about delivering the easiest and most pleasant experience. This combines psychology with design, development and testing. Because there’s no way that anyone has yet invented to get a user experience perfect the first time around. Some app UX fundamentals: The fewest taps wins The fewer elements there are, the […]
Before I go in on third-party cookies, let’s step back and revise what a cookie is. Cookies allow websites to personalise the content you see, track your behaviour onsite and remember things like products in your basket even if you close your browser. They have a bad rep but they’re extremely useful. Third-party cookies have […]
Most people know when they’re talking to a chatbot now, but in some ways it’s actually better to underline that fact. It lets the user off the hook with more complex social rules, which helps them get to the information they need more efficiently. That said, there are quite a few conversational rules your chatbots […]
Collecting online reviews from previous clients is great practice for companies of all kinds. Customer reviews honestly and sincerely present your capability as a company and the value you have provided to clients over the years. They’re an invaluable source of social proof – the new word of mouth. It’s a great feeling when your […]
Brand trust used to be simple. You heard a product was good, you used it and it worked, then you kept buying it forever. But now we’re all victims of digital marketing. We’ve been over-targeted with behaviour data, misled by previously-trusted organisations and exploited by social media platforms. On the other side of that, as […]
“On-page” SEO is essential to making waves online. Search engines take numerous factors into account when deciding where to rank your website, such as your content marketing efforts, site speed, and keyword optimisation. However, on-page factors only form part of the search optimisation picture. There are also a number of “off-page” factors to consider too, which […]
Much to marketers’ chagrin, marketing (and the process of selling as a whole) has a bit of a bad reputation. To the particularly cynical, marketers may be seen as slimy manipulators – psychological-string-pullers who get people to spend money on stuff they really don’t need. Salespeople can be seen as unscrupulous foot-in-the-door, “always be closing” […]
The trouble with social media is that everyone reckons they can do it. It’s just writing a sentence and clicking post, right? I wish that were true. Good social media is many things but when it comes to social media for your business, one of the most important of those things is safe. Not boring; […]
Brand purpose marketing has a bit of an ick factor. Over the last decade, many brands looked about for some kind of cause with which to cover themselves in glory. Any cause, seemingly. And guess what – consumers see through this. Virtue signalling is obvious. You can’t just slap a Pride flag on your logo […]