Who loves spam email?

Who loves spam email?

Don’t you love spam email?  Think of all those special offers, sales pitches, products you don’t need, services you already have (or may even provide yourself) – don’t you love opening them to find out what goodies they contain?  No? Delete, delete, delete! So when...
Does your Facebook page work?

Does your Facebook page work?

So many people don’t ‘get’ Facebook for business, but if you’re selling to individuals rather than companies, it’s a really powerful platform. But let’s blow a myth away first. If you have a Facebook Page everyone can see what’s posted on your personal account. Not...
5 ways to avoid marketing madness

5 ways to avoid marketing madness

Here we are, a month into the year and what’s happening in your marketing department? OK, if you’re a small business, that might not be a department, it may just be you, but having a clear marketing plan is important. Marketing covers pretty much everything from...
Make the headlines

Make the headlines

If you want to get your business in the news, the first thing to do is to work out which publications you want to target. Of course, making the headlines in the national dailies would be amazing, but, to be realistic, you have to have something big time to make it...
How hard is your marketing content working?

How hard is your marketing content working?

The most frequent complaint I hear is ‘I don’t have time’, when it comes to marketing.  Because I write stuff and know a bit about social media, business owners think I spend all day on LinkedIn and Facebook and writing new web content for my website. I do spend all...