During the recession, many firms reluctantly dispensed with their marketing and business development staff which meant that the day to day burden of marketing fell onto the shoulders of secretarial and administrative staff. Many smaller firms cannot afford to hire full time marketing qualified staff and instead look to promoting Read More
I have just finished writing a book review, which will appear in a future edition of Professional Marketing magazine, on the book “Inbound marketing – Getting found using Google, social media and blogs” which is one of the CIM’s standard texts for its Digital Marketing diploma (along with ‘Understanding Digital Read More
In my previous blog post I provided some of the reasons WHY even small firms of lawyers, accountants and surveyors should consider using Twitter. In this post I aim to provide a simple “getting started” guide. Create an account The first thing is to go to the Twitter site www.twitter.com and watch Read More
Web 2.0. Social networks. Social marketing. There’s lots of jargon – and hype – about it all. Most senior professionals will associate things such as Myspace and Facebook with their teenage kids and dismiss them from consideration as serious business tools. So here, in part one, I ask the question Read More
Interested to see the web site of London estate agents Brian Lack - a series of videos introducing the firm and its services, interviewing key partners, providing adverts of related advisers and showcasing key properties. But would digital immigrants (those who didn't grow up with digital technology) prefer the option Read More