7 Ways To Help Your Business Become Famous Locally Online

Simon JonesGoogle, Stuff

If you think about it, the letters in the acronym ‘www’ have always represented something on a global scale. World wide web, it’s in the name…it’s you communicating to the world. Whether you have those three little letters prefixing your website or not (it’s 2016, plenty don’t – Twitter and …

Dark Social – A Definitive Guide

Ian HancockAnalytics, Industry News, Social Media, Stuff

If you’ve noticed an increase in your direct traffic to your website when comparing traffic sources year on year, you may be tempted to put it down to your business’ PR strategy and an increase in brand presence. After all, more people are coming straight to your website…right? Before making …

How reliable is your hosting?

Ian HancockStuff

There was alarming news for many website owners yesterday when 123-Reg confirmed that they had “effectively deleted” a number of the 1.7 million websites they host for their customers. Hosting is an essential part of having a website. A web server – essentially a big computer – holds all the …

Brand Experience – “It’s all about ME!”

Ian HancockStuff

In an age of ever more competitive marketplaces and omnichannel marketing  it’s ever harder to get in front of people.  So what does it mean for the smaller business and how can it work to your advantage – more to the point, why should you care? When 74% of consumers identify word-of-mouth …

Why your business should use Facebook ads

Simon JonesFacebook News, Stuff

In the final quarter of 2015, Facebook’s quarterly earnings surpassed $5bn for first time thanks to ad sales. And when I say thanks to ad sales, I mean pretty much all thanks to ad sales. In fact, 80% of that revenue was from mobile ad sales alone. That’s not quite …