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 […]
Looking forward to 2021 already? You’re not alone. Companies are already diversifying and creating new products and services based on predictions of an increase of home working in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. That said, tech companies are typically always one step ahead of the game in filling the gaps when it comes to our […]
Are you familiar with search engine optimisation and what it means for your business? In short, SEO is optimising the content on your website or webpage using specific keywords so that your business shows up in organic search results within search engines. The better your SEO, the higher your business will rank in search results […]
Everyone wants to know the secret of how to trend on social media – for the right reasons, anyway. But to create a trending hashtag, you need to be very, very newsworthy – and for most small to medium businesses, this is very difficult to achieve. There are ways you can trend at a low level – through running competitions, […]
Instagram has launched a new feature: Instagram Reels. Reels allows you to create and edit 15-second videos set to music, and is comparable to the hugely popular TikTok social media app (read our overview article of TikTok here). But unlike TikTok, Instagram has introduced a number of additional creative features including audio and visual tools. […]
Social media is such a large part of business life these days but sometimes it’s hard to decide what to write about. Events are an excellent place to start, they create so many opportunities for you to create content for your social media channels – you can post before the event, during, and after, you […]
Most small businesses use social media every day, whether that’s to interact with customers, promote products or services, or let your audience know about your latest news and offers. Social media marketing is becoming ever increasingly popular with businesses utilising new platforms as and when they become available. Longstanding social media platforms include Facebook, Twitter, […]
When starting out with PPC as a small–to–medium business, it can be tempting to plough all of your budget into non-brand keyword phrases – i.e., those which don’t include your business name or other branding information, but which focus on the type of product or service type you provide, for example “plumber in Bristol” or “hairdressers near me”. You might think: “I can […]
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 […]
The best hashtags on social media serve three key purposes: 1. They correctly categorise content according to the hashtags that are used in posts, making it easier for audiences to find content they wish to read. 2. They expand the reach of content in which they are included. 3. They give accounts a way to […]