With 484million visits in a single month, it’s about time Facebook featured in your thoughts and strategy, whether you sell to businesses or consumers. This is the first in a series of posts on how to tackle this marketing behemoth. We’ve been working on Facebook pay-per-click campaigns for a number of our clients. It is really [...]

There’s been a common theme for many of the conversations I’ve had with new clients recently: poor traffic conversion rates. It’s a subject, like many in the world of marketing, that is completely subjective – it will depend entirely on your business, the market sector, your product, your prices, competitors and a whole host of [...]

If you merely value a customer on turnover and profit alone, you’re missing a big chunk of capital. I love this recent post at Dawud Miracle’s blog which describes seven ways to make your customer fall in love with you. Dawud suggests that ‘when you’re in love, you can’t help telling people about it: Be [...]

Steve Holstein posted on his blog that Brad, from Paxton, Illionois received his copy of the latest Harry Potter book, Deathly Hallows, three days early and speculates that the e-tailer in question probably planned the ‘accident’ in order to gain publicity. Well, it sure worked. In another bizarre (or planned?) unexpected release, Lily Allen was [...]

Being in business development and marketing for as long as I have has turned me in to a bit of a cynic. Google has made its online office tools, Docs, Spreadsheets etc. available as a hosted solution free for educational organisations in the US, and announced in this post, (Official Google Blog: Nonprofits mix it [...]

Today, a colleague gave me great example of when expectations don’t appear to matter. He’s currently going through the painful process of selling/buying a home and has had to engage with different agents to view properties and so forth. He reported a concerning trend: agents appear to be over-valuing properties to get the instruction. Once [...]