Emails made easy. . .

At the end of yesterday’s post I mentioned the great little tool I found that is perfect for anyone who sends plain text emails. This is a great time saver and, initially, I was just going to include it in the Spring Clean Your Marketing Toolbox.
But then I decided it is so handy I [...]

A retail success story. . .

It’s tough on the high street for retailers at the moment. We’ve already seen the demise of many well known names, like Woolworths, as well as seeing numerous smaller shops being boarded up.
Now, I don’t profess to be a retail marketing expert, but I can’t help wondering if those shop owners were missing a few [...]

Quick twit

Just a quick post about a little utility I use called QckTwit. I started using it some time ago because it made adding a tweet direct from the desktop to Twitter extremely easy.
It sits on the Windows taskbar. A simple right click & selecting Show opens it up:

Then it stopped working - I kept getting [...]

Marketing clean-up survey results in - thank you

The Spring Clean Your Marketing survey is now closed - thank you if you took part.
My first question asked where you conduct your business and the answers highlighted the fact that although many business owners actively use the web - for research and keeping in touch - 39% reported they conduct their business solely off [...]

may I ask you something. . .

Your views are important to me… will you share?
I hope you had a good Easter break. Mine was not quite as relaxing as I’d intended because I took time to start gathering material for the Spring Clean Your Marketing Toolbox I mentioned in my post last week. And that’s why I need your help.
Because of [...]

80 page social marketing report

What has social marketing got to do with your business? If yours is an online business you already know the answer to that. But what about the bricks & mortar; the offline businesses? What impact does it have on them, if any?
A business colleague sent me an extremely interesting 80-page report on the phenomenon [...]

Worth the early start. . .

Last Saturday morning, 4.15 a.m. – still dark – and my alarm woke me so I could get to a marketing-focused business club meeting on time.
Was it worth the effort?
Yes!
The London event, hosted by SuccessTrack, was a gathering of enthusiastic and ambitious business owners (my kind of people ) listening to [...]