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I have just read an excellent post on the Hubspot website about how to optimise your website page and blog posts. I have followed these basic rules for a long time – one reason why I can maintain a reasonably high level of traffic to this website without daily (or sometimes even weekly!) blogging.
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Email Marketing using Mailchimp

by Jo Dodds Admin on 2011-02-09

In the first of a series of guest blogs, Colman Carpenter of Four Lakes Internet Services tells us about the importance of email marketing and specifically about how to use Mailchimp for keeping in touch with your list. Although I use Mailchimp for one of my businesses, my favourite email provider is actually AWeber, so [...]

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A business associate sent me a message the other day where he remarked, having seen the website of one of my clients, “I think these style of sites for one man businesses are becoming the norm”. The style he was talking about was a WordPress site with dynamic content, including social media and a blog [...]

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Social Media Marketing Made Simple

by Jo Dodds Admin on 2011-01-24

A few weeks ago I did a survey of my list and social media contacts. One of the questions that came up in the ‘biggest challenge that you have in using the internet to promote your business’ section was how to use social media effectively to market your business without it taking up too much [...]

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Barack Obama used inbound marketing during the election campaign. Hilary Clinton used outbound marketing. Which worked best?
What is Inbound Marketing?
Inbound marketing is about attracting people into your business in a more subtle way than traditional marketing. Traditional or outbound marketing is more costly and involves interrupting people using TV and radio advertising, direct mail, paper [...]

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As someone who specialises in social media and online marketing it’s interesting to me to see how many people are coming into the market offering their services in this arena as a Social Media Expert (can I say at this point that I consider myself to be a specialist, not an expert!). Eighteen months ago [...]

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When we begin speaking in terms of marketing on Twitter, invariably the question comes up, “how do I market my company without people viewing my efforts as spam?”
Spam is about taking the choice away from someone and delivering them information about products and services without their permission. Spam comes in the way of unsolicited emails, [...]

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What do you think is more important: an attractively designed website or a search engine friendly website? Well I would say that the two shouldn’t be mutually exclusive but that if you really had to make a choice you would need to think about how your customers will find your website.
If you need your [...]

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More and more local business people are asking us about Twitter and whether it is worth them getting involved with it from a local marketing perspective; at the same time more and more local businesses are starting to use it and getting some great exposure for their business.
My answer is generally something along the lines [...]

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Should you have a blog?

by Jo Dodds Admin on 2009-08-19

Hubspot have recently published some interesting research and observations that they have made from their customer base about blogging and whether it is useful for small and medium size businesses.
Commenters (or is it commentators?!) on the Hubspot post ask whether the results are just correlation rather than causation, i.e. are those companies that are blogging [...]

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