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.
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, […]
It goes without saying that the internet is an indispensable part of our lives. But it boggles the mind to think how quickly things have developed. The first website (and therefore the part of the internet we call “the World Wide Web”) only went live in 1991. Back then, only a select few of us […]
When you’re starting out with digital marketing, organic channels are always a great place to start. In marketing, “organic” refers to the free ways you can optimise your site for search, or the posts and information you can freely share over social media. If you’re a bit of a digital marketing newbie, organic channels are […]
I hate plans, including marketing plans. But, I have to say, without one we’re all just lost souls wandering about aimlessly. Most of us do have a plan – it just lives in our head, and we have to hope everyone around us also has a plan and it doesn’t mess ours up. So, to […]
Reputation is a funny old thing. A good reputation takes time and effort to build, especially in business. It’s something that’s built over months and years, rather than weeks or days. However, if something goes wrong, all of that good standing can be lost in an instant. Huge companies employ whole teams of people to […]
We can all get a little over-confident that we know our customers’ journey by heart. They click an ad, come to the website, read some copy, add a product to the basket and buy. In reality, things are a lot messier than that – but User Explorer in Google Analytics can help. What is User […]
Voice-operated AI assistants like Google Home or Amazon Echo seem to be the latest niche tech trend to creep into mainstream usage, with 6.6 million people in the UK owning a smart speaker device (Source: YouGov 2018). What Voice Assistants Are Out There? But what does this development mean for small business owners looking to […]
There are a number of lazy habits that companies fall into over social media. Not least is the tendency to see social media as little more than a numbers game. We’re constantly reminded of our follower or like counts on social, but the amount of followers you have just isn’t that important. It’s the positive […]
Hashtags were popularised by Twitter over 10 years ago to help users group Tweets via common topics of discussion. Lots of other platforms like Instagram and Facebook also use hashtags, with a similar purpose of grouping posts together. If you don’t know what a hashtag is then have a look at my example image of a […]
So you’ve decided to take the plunge and go into business for yourself. Congratulations! You’re in for an exciting (and sometimes nail-biting) journey. But the main adjustment to make when transitioning from employment to entrepreneurship is of course money. Going from a reliable, set income every month to the unpredictable “feast and famine” of working […]