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Social Media Marketing – An Old Story

Date: 4th February 2010
No Comments Related Categories: Articles, Social Networking

We’ve published our latest article, “Social Media Marketing – An Old Story

The world of business is going mad for social media, with a recent study suggesting 92% of businesses in North America are using it in some way.

This is exciting of course, but in this excitement, many seem to have forgotten that while some of the technology may be new, the phenomena is not.

In fact, this interactive methodology has been at the core of internet marketing since its very inception. Web pages are, after all, interactive and multimedia by their very nature. We were clicking, viewing, commenting and sharing, long before the term ‘social media’ was coined.

Be sure to track offline as well as online…

Date: 26th January 2010
Comments: 1 Related Categories: Tracking

Old Bakelit phoneI’m always telling clients to track their marketing, and obviously it’s easy to do that online with the help of google Analytics or a real time webstats tool such as Clicky Analytics – knowing where your traffic is coming from, what it’s doing once it gets to your site and whether or not your efforts are working is a huge step in the right direction towards NOT wasting your efforts online.

3 things a day can help to promote your website

Date: 7th January 2010
Comments: 20 Related Categories: Articles, Blogging, Content, Free Listings, Freebies, Musings, Social Networking, twitter

Eternal clockOne of the things I hear most often when I talk to people about promoting their websites themselves, is that it ‘takes too much time’ and they ‘don’t know where to start’.

Well, while I can see where they’re coming from on the second point, the first one doesn’t ring true with me. It’s not about spending loads of time every day, it’s about doing SOMETHING every day and seeing the effort pile up and bring results. It’s about not giving in because you ‘don’t have the time’ and not putting things off because you’re ‘not sure how’.

Want to create more hype about your product or service?

Date: 4th January 2010
Comments: 1 Related Categories: Blogging, Freebies

Toy sampling megaphoneIt’s 2010 and a great way to create hype and recognition of your product or service this year is to involve the blogosphere.

We’ve worked with quite a few clients in 2009 who gave away free samples of their products or services in return for reviews, generating backlinks, great articles, traffic and in turn buyers for very little outlay.

Good blog reviews on sites with lots of traffic in your niche market can create great buzz, great traffic and obviously sales.

So why not try it this year?

Sometimes it’s the small things that count

Date: 10th August 2009
Comments: 5 Related Categories: Admin posts, Social Networking

Over the last few months I’ve implemented a few small changes in some of my ’strategies’, and I thought it would be good to share them with you over the next few days so you can see the results.

Today I’ll share with you my ‘newsletter signup strategy’.

I get about 20-30 newsletter signups per day. They all get a lovely little ‘thanks’ message from the Aweber system that I use, which is clearly automated. In 4 years or so of using Aweber, I’ve never yet had one person come back to one of those automated thank yous with a response.