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Email Marketing is one of the cornerstones of online relationship building and an affordable option for small businesses with the smallest of marketing budgets (I’m talking minuscule in some cases ). Things have moved on a bit (about a million miles actually) since the days of rainbow coloured text emails and using the BCC field…
What is the Point of your Website? Many small businesses have a website built because they know they need to have one. But they don’t give much thought to what they actually want it to do for their business. Most people we speak to look surprised when we ask this question, and answer:‘More business –…
Imagine you’re having a flyer printed for a new product or service in your business. I expect you’d probably agonize over every word on the page and check every punctuation mark. You’d spend ages to select the best quality images and proof-read the finished article several times before going to print. Wouldn’t you? Do you…
Publishing an Email Newsletter is a big commitment. It takes time and effort to put together something your subscribers will look forward to reading. And if they don’t enjoy what you send them, they will let you know – watch out for a drop in open rates and a rise in the number of people…
Whenever we explain to newcomers to the internet how important, even vital, writing is as part of establishing an online presence that will lead to business, they nearly always nod in agreement. But then the vast majority don’t do anything about it, apart from perhaps the odd status update on Facebook or the occasional half-hearted…
It’s taken a while but more businesses are discovering the delights of using email to communicate with their contacts every day, or so it seems. And once they start, there’s just no stopping them! Sam and I have both received mailings recently that really do break all the rules of good practice; hence this post….
…. But do we have anything worth saying? Isn’t it amazing how many different ways we have to communicate with one another? The letter; telephone; mobile phone; text; fax; newspaper; emails; websites; blogs; twitter; audio; radio; television; video – just some that come to mind. I’ve always been an avid reader. As a child I…
