In the week that political resignations, leadership battles and market turmoil dominated news headlines, a certain monster-hunting mobile game was busy making waves online. Pokemon Go’s mixture of gaming and reality has proved a huge success. SimilarWeb says players are using Pokemon Go for an average of 43 minutes a day – that’s more...
Realising Real ROI on your Digital Advertising
UK businesses are spending a lot of money on advertising. How much of that is being spent well is a matter of debate. 2015 saw expenditure reach £20.1 billion – £8.6bn of which was spent on digital channels, and £2.6 billion on mobile. Digital advertising is a high growth, high potential area, and one that’s...
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...
Lead Generation for Your Business
Here are some key strategies for boosting your lead generation campaigns. Knowing your audience This is where it all starts. If you don’t know your audience, you won’t be able to make informed decisions about what content to write to meet their needs and interests. Get this right and the following points become that...
The Main Content Marketing Metrics You Should Track
Creating a range of engaging content is essential to your marketing strategy. But how do you actually know if that content is engaging? Strategies need to be adaptable and versatile, ready to change in an instant to meet the ever-evolving needs of consumers. The only way to stay on top is by tracking your content...
Best Practices For Writing Content
Be wise when selecting your keywords You should write your content for your audience and not the search engines. You must however include a little optimisation. When it comes to optimising: Include a selected keyword in your copy/content. Don’t mention it too many times! Select one primary keywords and some supporting ones to go...
Enhancing Page Speed
Google page load speed plays an important part in your websites success. The page load speed impacts the user experience and total number of conversions you ultimately get. A 1 second delay in page load time results in: 11% fewer page views 16% decrease in customer satisfaction 7% loss in conversions 47% of people...
Email Marketing Rules The Roost For ROI
Over recent years there has been a love-hate relationship with email marketing as digital marketing has matured, but the channel continues to hold it’s top spot for returning investment… 1. Email leading the ROI charts 73% of company respondants rate email marketing as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’ for the company when it comes to return on...