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 […]
Writing business blogs can sometimes feel like washing up – a time-consuming chore and a distraction from more important things. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Firstly a well-managed blog can become a central part of your business, attracting customers and keeping them engaged. Businesses with blogs attract 55% more traffic than those […]
Late last year, Moz discovered that Google was showing significantly longer snippets of content (hopefully, your carefully crafted meta decriptions) in its search results pages. The SEO expert is now recommending character limits of 300 for your meta descriptions. It’s been 160-ish for YEARS, so clearly they think something pretty big is going on there. […]
Racking your brains for content ideas is time-consuming and often frustrating. When you’ve got other stuff to do, you need a steady flow of content from reliable sources. Knowing where to go for content ideas makes your life easier but it also makes sure what you’re producing is legit. It helps your customers because the […]
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 […]
For the last 10 or so years, we’ve all been blinded by the shining light of goodness that is Innocent’s tone of voice. So fun, so quirky. They’ve had a very good run with their copy style and, although I’m personally quite tired of the schtick now (old and bitter, is what I am), they’re […]
You’ve heard of podcasts, right? Like a radio show on the internet? Yeah, those guys. Podcasting was quite underground until the last couple of years, despite being around since the iPod was still exciting new tech (guess where the ‘pod’ bit comes from). It arrived in the first decade of the noughties but seemed to […]
Promoting yourself with great copy can be the key to awesome marketing, but it’s often an aspect that sadly gets overlooked. I totally get it. Putting a marketing message together and getting it right can be a daunting prospect to the uninitiated. Using the right words in the right places can have your ideal clientele […]
In times of uncertainty, instead of looking at ways to ‘grow your business’, many business owners make the fatal mistake of either doing nothing, or shrinking their operations. Perhaps the thinking for the latter strategy is that by saving money now there may be spare cash in times of need. In my experience, the worst […]
Last week, one of the sites I write for saw a sudden massive jump in traffic to the content area. I couldn’t explain it (embarrassing) but I was very pleased – we had our best day ever in the history of our content. Now, I’m hearing whispers of a change to an appropriately nicknamed Google […]