Published on 19th September 2016

A question I am asked often is “How can we find out what our competitors are doing online?”. We use a wide set of tools to create a competitive analysis but I recently came across a site that can give… more »

Categories: Digital Marketing Strategy

Published on 31st August 2016

A good email signature is a free marketing opportunity. Here are 7 tips on making the most of a free marketing opportunity. Your email signature offers free advertising for your business.  I recommend you ALWAYS have the following in your… more »

Categories: Email, Marketing

Published on 25th August 2016

I just wanted to make sure you saw this as I think it’s a great opportunity. I think we all know that video is getting to be the medium of choice for many of us marketing our businesses, but it’s… more »

Categories: Video

Published on 12th August 2016

Over the last five or six years live chat on big websites has become fairly commonplace.  The reason for this is simple, it generates more sales.  But it’s not just big players that can benefit from Live Chat, anyone can. Shopping or… more »

Categories: Lead Generation, Marketing, Web site design

Published on 3rd August 2016

2 day Conference and Workshop Something quite special is coming to the Royal Highland Showground Conference Centre in Edinburgh. If you’re responsible for your businesses sales or marketing then this is a must attend conference.  On the 17th August we… more »

Categories: Digital Marketing Strategy, Google, Marketing, SEO, Social Media

Published on 2nd August 2016

As I had an issue with my modem I thought I’d put a post up for anyone looking to move from Plusnet Broadband to Plusnet Fibre. Although I use Plusnet I don’t use their hardware, have a Draytek Vigor 130… more »

Categories: Stuff

Published on 6th June 2016

Now I know a thing or two about learning digital marketing, I spend an hour every day doing just that.  The online marketing world moves so quickly it’s very hard to keep up. If you’re in the mood to learn… more »

Categories: Google

Published on 28th April 2016

I thought this was worth mentioning because I have a lot of great clients in the hospitality industry and this is relevant. A short while ago Trip Advisor setup it’s servers as secure servers using https. Previously they were using… more »

Categories: Google

Published on 3rd March 2016

If you have a site built by us it will probably have the Yoast SEO plugin installed. Yoast updated this several months ago now and made the user interface much harder to use, not good.  After a lot of feedback… more »

Categories: Google, Marketing

Published on 10th February 2016

Margaret Thatcher would be turning in her grave.  The government are telling us on one hand that small businesses are the backbone of the economic recovery, and on the other they are piling more tax on the very people that they… more »

Categories: Legislation