How to Use Social Media for Lead Generation in Construction

As a small building firm, staying competitive in today’s digital age is crucial. One way to do this is by effectively using social media for lead generation. In this blog post, we’ll explore the benefits of acquiring customers this way and provide tips on how to use it effectively. Previously, many trade businesses were not […]


Creating a Digital Marketing Plan for Builders

As a builder, a digital marketing plan is essential for reaching and engaging new customers in today’s digital age. With many home owners searching for building services online, builders really do need to have a solid online presence and a comprehensive digital marketing plan to be found by people searching online for the services they […]


How to Write Alt Text for Accessibility

Blind and visually impaired people use alternative text (alt text) to understand images, charts and other visual content displayed online. Alt text is a brief description of an image that’s read aloud by screenreader software. It’s important to write alt text that describes the content of the image, and to place it in the HTML […]


Should Small Businesses Stay on Twitter?

The reason so many brands have dropped any association with Kanye West is, simply, dollars. Whatever the founders, CEOs, shareholders and leadership feel about his views, it comes down to what they think will affect their bottom line. Now Elon Musk has bought Twitter and started making his mark, he intends to let controversial figures […]


How to Ramp Up Social Media for Your Business

Most of us start out ‘doing social’ – not much thinking about what that means or what we’re trying to achieve. It seems like something we just have to do because everyone else is. But there comes a time in every business’s growth that the public profile has to step it up. Social media is […]


What Brands Can Learn from International Women’s Day 2022

This year, International Women’s Day was an exercise in schooling brands that post empty, shiny stuff on social without the goods to back it up.  You see, International Women’s Day is not – despite what many people think – a celebration of how great women are, but an important rallying cry about the inequality women […]


5 Instagram Post Ideas for a Non-Visual Small Business

Instagram is a visual social media platform. Very visual. It’s a place for sharing makeup looks, dank memes, glamorous holidays, your avocado-featuring lunch and millions of selfies. Small businesses that offer beautiful products, like jewellery designers and artists, have done incredibly well from Instagram, often without even paying for advertising. It’s a platform that feeds […]


How to Promote Your Business Online

Are you looking to promote your business online? With more people turning to the internet to find local businesses, having an online presence is essential (especially in the current climate). In this article, we look at the steps you can take to build your online presence. Get Your Business Online: set up a website Your […]


How to Handle a Negative Social Media Comment or Review

Sometimes businesses can get things wrong, and displease a customer. And occasionally, they can get things right yet still displease a customer, through no fault of their own.  When issues and complaints are raised directly to a business, it gives them an opportunity to address and hopefully resolve it. But all too often, these displeased customers turn to social media […]


Is Clubhouse The Next Must-Join Social Media Platform?

First of all, you may well be asking “What is Clubhouse?” It’s a relatively new real-time voice chat app, originally launched in early 2020, which seems to have taken the social media world by storm towards the end of 2020 and during the first few of weeks of 2021. I have heard it compared to […]


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