From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Apology Unnecessary

by LouiseBJ on October 30, 2008

in Email Marketing

Over the last few months, we’ve been seeing more of our local fellow business owners sending out email newsletters, which is great!  At last they’re realising what a great cost effective marketing tool email is.  They’ve also stopped mailing with Outlook in favour of more professional services, thank goodness!
Last week, a Financial Advisor we both [...]

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Getting Started with Blogging

by Sam McArthur on October 28, 2008

in Blogging

Blogging is taking the web by storm and more and more small businesses are jumping on board and taking advantage of this great way of marketing their business online. There are strong reasons to start a blog which include the ability to show off your knowledge as well as your latest business news which keeps [...]

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Why Can’t I Find My Website?

by Sam McArthur on October 23, 2008

in SEO

This is a question I know many business owners ask themselves when searching for their website in the search engines! I also get asked this from time to time when working with clients on search engine optimisation. So why can’t you always find your website in an online search?
Well, there are many reasons why you [...]

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Is Email still a useful marketing tool?

by LouiseBJ on October 21, 2008

in Email Marketing

The beauty of Email marketing is that it is still relatively low-cost, easy to do (even for complete beginners) and it enables you to reach lots of people just by pressing ‘Send’.  There really are no excuses for not giving Email marketing a try – and you don’t even need to have a website to [...]

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Please show me the way out of here!

by LouiseBJ on October 16, 2008

in Email Marketing

It would seem that more and more local businesses are cottoning on to using Email as a marketing tool – and I’m really pleased that they are.  After all, it’s low cost and can be very effective if done correctly.
However, they need to be made aware of a couple of Email Marketing points of etiquette [...]

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SEO & The Waiting Game

by Sam McArthur on October 13, 2008

in SEO

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You’ve researched your keywords, incorporated them
into your page content and written title and meta description tags for your web
pages – you’ve worked hard to [...]

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