For most Small Businesses the management of people is way down the list when compared to the other parts of the business operation, for example, revenue and sales which outweigh everything else. Notwithstanding, staff administration is a significant cost for small business as well as concentrating on different business functions as this is all important …
Why your business needs a Digital Plan
If your business does not have a digital strategy then how do you know where you’re heading and what you’re trying to achieve? In this post we identify 5 problems that in our experience will effect the operation of your business if you do not have a clear Digital Plan. Your business has no focus …
Social Media rule of two thirds
For many businesses we speak with social media platforms like Twitter has already made a bad name for itself. So much so, that often the first path of resistance to joining this or for that matter any of the other social networks is generally something along the lines of, “All people do is talk about …
Facebook news feed updates
The latest Facebook news feed updates have found a new way for all users to view the posts from friends they actually want to hear from and read pages they actually want to see by creating a more personalized news feed. From facebooks’ own internal research it shows that each time an average Facebook member …
Gleave Media attends small business reception at No 11
Our Managing Director was chosen to meet the Chancellor of the Exchequer as a representative of small businesses in the South West earlier this month. Alistair Gleave MD of Gleave Media joined two other local business champions at a 2-hour champagne reception held at 11 Downing Street, after being nominated by Newton Abbot MP Anne …
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Ask your audience
Asking your audience surely has to be an easy way for your business to engage with its customers doesnt it? By asking your audience you can gain valuable input into what your customer would like to see happen so hopefully you can provide just that. Up and down the country you will see pollsters asking …
Facebook marketing success
As a company we work with a number of clients on all aspects of the Social Media presence, and as would be expected facebook marketing does feature highly in most businesses social engagement. This customer wanted a pretty much immediate ‘push’ with his social campaigns on facebook with significant increase in reach of his updates. …
Facebook for business
This is the copy from a recent video from the In a Nutshell series…. Thanks to numerous facebook changes recently, many businesses are thinking about scaling back on Facebook marketing – you shouldn’t. Facebook is still the best social network for getting traffic to your website, and is great for conducting two way discussions between …
five ways you can get social media WRONG!
These days pretty much every business has some kind of social media presence yet still some business don’t seem to gain any proactive benefit from these fabulous social media sites, is your business making those simple social media mistakes? 1. Boring updates A boring update is anything that lacks your businesses unique personality or perspective, you …
five top tips for creating great content
The importance of creating great content about your business or products you offer at the right time has been shown to have a direct benefit to drive demand for this offering and at the same time improve the all important bottom line. To make sure you get the most out of any content you create …
What your online business can learn from the High Street
It seems that these days pretty much any business can (and does) sell online after all it isnt that difficult and can be fairly straight forward the key is actually getting sales through the new online sales tool and this requires a real focussed approach and a really key understanding of the markets you are …
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Three New Year Resolutions for your Online Marketing Strategy
The start of 2013 is a great time for starting afresh with your business online marketing plan and the best way to do this is by setting some clear manageable targets and goals. These are our top three new year resolutions for your businesses online marketing. 1. Facebook WILL be part of my customer engagement …
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