Posted by Tom Sykes on Monday, January 4, 2010,
In :
GENERAL
Happy New Year to you all.
There are some things in marketing which are so fundamental that they need to be reviewed on a regular basis. For most firms, who make plans in the autumn for the following calendar year, it should probably be late summer. But there's so much activity then, preparing for the autumn (when there's more exhibitions, more web traffic and more of just about everything). So let's resolve to review things at New Year.
Posted by Tom Sykes on Friday, December 18, 2009,
In :
GOOGLE
Google has made available a simple tool which provides an interesting insight into what people see when they visit your web pages. You can look in your analytics and see a breakdown of the screen sizes of your visitors (e.g "1024 x 768"), but the size of their browser windows will be substantially smaller than this. They may not be maximised to fill the whole screen, and they'll probably have toolbars and other clutter making the actual view of your site a lot smaller.
Having provided a wide range of services to construction industry clients in 2009, we've decided to focus on the ones where we can offer the most added value in 2010. These are the three things which we think every marketing manager in the industrial sectors should have as priorities in their online marketing, indeed in all of their marketing, next year.
1. Understanding Online Marketing It may sound vague, and organising that stand at the next big trade show in March is probably more pressing... Continue reading...
Posted by Tom Sykes on Monday, November 30, 2009,
In :
ADVERTISING
Three things which you shouldn't do in 2010. If you've got some sort of a marketing plan in place for next year, and any of your expenditure is targeted at things which tick the following boxes, well …all we can say is, it's your budget, and there's still time to change it.
1. Don't buy anything which doesn't have a good return on investment Why? Because there are enough things which do have a good return on investment to soak up anyone's marketing budget. Now, we'll be the first to admit th... Continue reading...
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Posted by Tom Sykes on Wednesday, November 18, 2009,
In :
GOOGLE
We are all so desperate to do well in Google. Google produces a huge software black box of algorithms, which must have grown and grown over the years. Trying to predict what Google do next is next to impossible and the only way to "tweak" things is to make the changes and see what the result is.
Google constantly adds and amends its rules to improve results, but they often have unforeseen impacts in other areas, which is why you'll often see pages on your site jump up or down the Google resul... Continue reading...
Posted by Tom Sykes on Tuesday, November 17, 2009,
In :
ADWORDS
For almost all of us, Google AdWords is currently the best value way of generating targeted visits to a website through advertising. Our Customer's often forget how daunting the whole thing is when you first try it. There must be a lot of companies who've never used it because it seems like hard work, or who tried it when Google sent them a free £50 voucher, but thought they'd never have the time to develop and maintain the campaign, so they left it.
