Social media plays an important role in your marketing plan. It’s a quick, easy and instant way for you to interact with your audience. And an opportunity for your audience to engage with you whenever and wherever they like. Engaging with your customers and growing a social media following should be a priority. It’s likely […]
You might be excited to see your website is getting 1,000 click-throughs in a day, but it doesn’t mean much without any context. Without full visibility of how your web content is performing, you won’t know how to develop and get the most out of your on-going content strategy. Are those visitors finding you organically, […]
Digital marketing can feel like a minefield sometimes, especially if the topic is totally new to you. Wading through conflicting online advice; new jargon constantly coming out of the woodwork; swimming in data but no clue what to do with it all; the learning curve can feel like a real uphill battle. But doing any […]
Psychology plays an absolutely crucial part in all kinds of marketing. Whether it’s choosing which shelf and aisle to best place products in a supermarket, selecting the right words for a billboard campaign, or simply picking the right colour for your “buy now” button; the way businesses sell to people is inextricably linked with how […]
User-generated or third party photos, videos, reviews and other social media content related to your business can be both a gift and a threat. On the one hand, your customers are creating content for you – great right? On the other hand, you don’t have full control over that content – so how can you […]
You’re stuck on the same punishing treadmill of content creation as the rest of us. How to say the same thing yet again in yet another different way? How long until you can repost that photo on social media? How to make a weighty-sounding topic like ‘supply chain management systems’ sound clickable… Unless your business […]
Not only has the Internet got people reading more, but it’s also got people writing more. Nearly everyone has at least one social media account, and according to Social Pilot, Facebook users collectively send 150,000 messages every minute. Now that people have their own platforms, they feel compelled to speak from them – no matter […]
Owning a small business can be a time consuming job – you have to be sales, marketing, book keeper, HR, strategic lead – and that’s on top of your day-to-day work of making/selling a product or providing a service. The ideal scenario is that you hire people to help you with those tasks, whether a […]
Headlines matter more than most people think. In one of the most quoted copywriting tips you’ll hear, advertising Godfather David Ogilvy once said: On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. In other […]
Clear writing isn’t a top priority for a lot of people, and why would it be? With so many other important objectives to achieve in your writing – showing passion, creating interest, building a convincing argument – clarity just sounds boring. But we’ve all started reading one of those promising posts with a great headline, […]