Finding your secret admirers is every teenager’s dream – to conquer the cool guy / pretty girl and become their friend could be a dream come true.  Introducing your personal desires to the intended using a third party was the classic introduction at teenage discos – normally the approach began with a direct statement “My [...]








It is well known now that Google changed its search algorithm significantly last month. The way Google searches and indexes your website is pretty important as the number one search site – if you’re not ‘found’ on Google your business loses out. The change mainly affects sites who copy / reproduce content from other sites (commonly called farming) and [...]








Every trend is taken up first by the “early adopters” before either withering and dying or moving on to mass acceptance.  When a new social media app comes out, these are the people who first get online to test it out.  They’re the ones who’ll tell you if it is good and from whom much [...]








Got a urgent client question in the mail this morning: Will you help in this? would you review us on the qype.com site and then let us know what happens afterwards? There is this one person who has been extremely virulent and “determined to destroy” ever since August. It was obviously a competitor. We’ve not [...]








Corporate greeting cards can be used in many ways to promote your business and to show appreciation to supportive clients; some traditional and some a bit more creative. However, there are some rules and tips you should keep in mind to get the best return on your investment of sending out a Business Christmas card: 1. [...]








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.








The Daily Beast summarised a great experiment for a new Facebook joiner by testing various ways of getting his content seen by other FB users. Facebook’s 10 biggest secrets Tom Weber set up a great experiment and used his connections to test theories about how the FB algorithm works.  Here are the findings… Facebook’s bias [...]








We get pitched from time to time by companies who want CreativeAgencySecrets to write about their product. Please continue to pitch us.  We love it – as long as it’s relevant and aligned with the subjects we write about. Mark McLeod Hendrikson has written a fabulous post from the point of view of both a [...]








A white paper has long been seen as a ‘serious’ way for a B2B business to position itself as a thought leader in its niche. Reading an Economist article recently about the glut of white papers (and my comment) being produced by management consultancies under the guise of research and new thinking, made me reflect [...]








As a Dunedin Resident I’ve been watching with interest the work the Council is doing on re-branding the city. At a Business After Five event in June, I saw the first slides from the team responsible for the underlying research that will be used going forwards.  It was good work but poorly presented  – two [...]