Website Marketing Tips Have you ever wondered why some local businesses seem to thrive and be incredibly successful at marketing themselves on the Internet while others can't even manage to get one customer to their website? If so, you are not alone. We realise that a lot of businesses find … [Read more...]

Meet the hashtag "#" It doesn't look like much, but if you use Twitter and haven't mastered the hashtag yet, it is soon going to be your new best friend. Let's face it: If you are new to Twitter or don't use it very often, it can be very overwhelming. It's hard to wade your way through … [Read more...]

Social Media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest are excellent ways to keep in touch and engage with your customers. However, because of their success many people claim that email marketing is dead and no longer relevant. Don't listen to them, as nothing could be further away from the … [Read more...]

If you haven't joined in yet, then it's high time you did. Twitter is one of the most visited social network sites and is becoming more and more popular everyday. According to a report on Statistic Brain (http://www.statisticbrain.com/twitter-statistics), in May 2013 Twitter now has over … [Read more...]

On the 21st March 2006, Jack Dorsey, co-founder of a little communications service called Twttr (a play on words inspired by Flickr) made the very first 'Tweet' Who would have thought that just six years later Twitter, as it was renamed, would be such a global phenonomen. It is not just used … [Read more...]

Voice recognition is nothing new. It has been around for years, decades in fact. When I first tried using voice recognition software many years ago it was little more than a novelty. It was cool to see words appear in Microsoft Word as I spoke them. I thought to myself, “Not bad. not bad at … [Read more...]

Some small business owners still don't 'get' Facebook. They scratch their head in bewilderment, wondering what all of the fuss is about. But even the businesses that have attempted to have a go at Facebook marketing are perplexed. Why? Because even though they may see the advantages of engaging … [Read more...]

If you are a regular reader of this magazine you will already know how much we rave on about Twitter being such a good marketing tool for local businesses. If you have already started using Twitter and are having limited success with it then we are going to reveal some cool ways to pimp your … [Read more...]

If you run any type of customer service business you know that instructions can be misread. This ends up in the customer being irritated because their order wasn't done correctly. What if you could rectify this with Pinterest? When customers can show rather than tell you what they want, everyone … [Read more...]

Claiming your Google+ Local page is essential for every business and this is the reason why: The way your customers look for information about the products and services they need has changed forever. A massive 82% of customers now look for a local business on the Internet instead of traditional … [Read more...]