Why you should be doing content marketing for your business! Increased Organic Visibility & Traffic Content helps to build organic visibility, both directly by appearing for long tail searches and indirectly by supporting the primary category, service and product level pages with supplementary information around niche topics. Nowadays, it is common to see sites...
Social Media Audiences for Small Businesses
Understand your audience If you don’t know who your audience is, it doesn’t matter what tools and apps you have in place. So, the first step is to define your target audience. Take your typical customers. Are they male or female? What age are they? Are they Millenials, Gen Xers or baby boomers? Where...
Four Tips for Ensuring Your Write Content Regularly
Ok, you’ve been appointed as the person in your business that needs to create content for the website and blog. How do you stay focused and assign time to get the job done? Here’s four tips to help you along your way! Set Aside Time Every Day It sounds easy, doesn’t it? You have...
The Importance of Business Blogging
Effective content marketing is all about the pull, not the push. Business blogging is a great way of achieving this. In fact, marketers who implement a strategic blogging game plan generate up to 67% more leads than those with no clue as to what they are doing, which is why you need to keep...
Ways to Optimise your Content for the Web Reader
Imagine you pick up a book – it’s a single piece of content that you’re very likely to read from beginning to end. A newspaper – there’s more variety, but you’ll probably read three or four articles in full. What happens though when you get to the internet and are swamped by choice? With...
‘The Agony Of Trying To Unsubscribe’ – James Veitch
Here at Give The Dog A Bone we’d hate to bombard you with unwanted emails! We thought you’d appreciate this short clip of how to deal with pestering email campaigns! It happens to all of us: you unsubscribe from an unwanted marketing email, and a few days later another message from the same company...
Producing Quality Content
Content is what inspires, educates and compels your users. It inspires them to try new things, educates them to take action and encourages them to come back for more. It also helps search engines to pick up your website for certain search phrases and terms. The challenge is that now your users are expecting...
Blogging For Your Business
It’s All About The Brand When it comes to writing a blog you want to make sure that you stick to what people expect of your brand. If you know your brand is recognised for its friendly tone of voice and is accessible to your customers, then your blog also needs to do the...
A Guide to Launching New Campaigns on Social Media
Top tips when launching a social media campaign: 1) Be authentic – not promotional Avoid appearing overly promotional, because it won’t appeal to consumers and definitely won’t engage them to follow you. Instead try to tie your content into current events or cultural moments that are of interest to your audience. Not only responding...
Creating Images & Copy For Your Facebook Business Page
Images Unlike on Twitter where you can choose to include an image in your tweets, adding an image is required for you Facebook post/ad. The recommended size of your images should be 1200 by 627 px. Facebook lets you choose up to 6 images to show in your ad, this will rotated as the...