Coincidence or not?  Today while browsing for 5 minutes I spotted these rainbow designs on Twitter identities. The question is should you follow the crowd when you find continuities like this or break out and do sosmething different? If you choose to follow the crowd: Celebrate the similarity – mention it online, a lot Research [...]








We get a real buzz writing this blog post each week – all those brands out there using the internet’s search function to help find the ideal creative marketing agency to work with them.  And we discover some of them just for you. One of the ways you can use the information in the post [...]








This is a guest blog by Larry Kim, Founder & VP of Product Development. WordStream Inc. He is outlining seven highly effective keyword research tactics that will help you generate more leads and sales from your search marketing campaigns. Step 4: Monitor Your Results You’ve done your research, and you’ve put your keywords to work on your website [...]








Hubspot is the integrated online marketing suite for small and medium sized busiensses.  There’s been a lot of buzz about its services and many new customers are using it. We were invited to watch a demo with a client and took advantage of the opportunity to make our own critique of the Hubspot service. Read [...]








The internet makes it easy to get in touch with people and organisations – right? WRONG. Day after day working for my business and my clients’ I find examples of organisations that make it really difficult for people to get in touch. Here’s the latest crop of examples. Author gets article into Harvard Business Reivew [...]








Service companies can use Facebook to widen awareness of their services.  Here’s a good example from Sergio Giannasso Hair and Beauty in London’s St Martin’s Lane.  Sergio’s website. The page has the right amount of information and includes a great touch – the photo of Sergio with David Hasselhof.








Always looking for new ideas and relevant content, can you help us out? We’d like to receive ides for new subject areas to write about offers of guest posts – write for us on YOUR topic of interest recommendations of new content, links to interesting posts or websites other things about biz dev that you [...]








We have had a cracking week for new business – hope you’re also finding this time of year fruitful.  Here are the current list of brands seeking agency advice on their marketing and brand building. Agencies APCO Worldwide, Public Relations, Richmond, VA [looking for new B2B model tools] Ralph, digital for TV, London, UK Poke [...]








Want to use cold emails as part of your customer acquisition?  We get dozens of approaches by digital media agencies usually picked up by our clients’ spam filters. Today we’re publishing one of the better ones as a crib for you to copy for your own use if you want to buy email lists and [...]








We got an email from Vitaly Veksler, Founder of Social Report.  It provides social network tracking, monitoring and reporting. He set us a challenge: I am quite interested in what industry experts have to say about the concept and the way it is implemented.  My goal is to specifically offer this tool to social media [...]