Small Business Tips

This year the Post Office has created a new simply festive reminder service to ensure your gifts and cards arrive in time for Christmas! Just complete the simple online form here with details of where you’ll be sending the items and the Post Office will let you know when its time to post them, by […]

Although I shared this graphic via social media a few weeks back, I thought it was so good that I would store it on my blog both to share with everyone else and also to refer back to it in future.  It has to be one of the most useful infographics that I’ve seen!  I […]

Social media marketing is still an untapped opportunity for business and its continuing to grow.  Many businesses have set up accounts but never made a single post. LinkedIn themselves believe that only 9% of their members use the system effectively… Not sure which social media platform is right for your business? Not sure how to […]

The following article has been written by Aaron Hawkins, senior SEO executive at Distinctly Digital, an SEO/PPC agency based in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. Google+ is the fastest growing social network.  Since its launch on June 28th 2011, Google+ has seen its popularity soar. Many of the early adopters to this emerging social network were those in […]

“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does”  – Stuart Henderson Britt Thanks Raj for this guest blog post. Earlier in the week I listened to a great presentation by Raj Nagji of The Local Directory on the pitfalls of […]

I am delighted to be participating in the Online Now Conference at the Watford Mercure Hotel on Thursday 4th July.  Full details below… “It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, […]

Ask The Expert is a series of videos where Robert Glazer, managing partner of Ripe Chartered Accountants based in London NW4, interviews some of the leading experts in their industry. You can watch and read the transcript of each interview from a number of experts and indeed watch the video that Robert and I recently […]

Many thanks to Viva Networking for this guest blog post. Based on working an 8-hour day, 5 days a week, between the ages of 18-65, with 4 weeks holiday a year, did you know we spend 90,240 hours of our life working? That is a lot of hours! Moreover, depending on the work you do, […]

We have a tendency to kick around a whole load of acronyms in marketing, and two of the most popular are CRM and CMS. Ok, so CRM means customer relationship management and CMS means content management system.  The first is a process for maintaining customer engagement and the second is a system for updating say […]

Analytics software has come a long way over the past few years, and it’s now becoming increasingly easier to measure where responses to your marketing efforts are coming from.  Google have their free analytics software, showing you where your website traffic has come from, what pages they visited and other user behaviour that is nothing […]