Here at Creative Agency towers, we are usually coy about sharing information about our clients. But today one blogged a detailed update about the work we’re doing to help improve their website design, CRM and usability. The client is Feedblitz.com – an RSS to email service provider. A very neat tool that enables marketing newsletters [...]
Taking your website offline is rarely welcomed by the marcomms team. sometimes you have go do it. Brand Glue did a great job of making a strong message come through their holding page. In fact, since I took this screen shot, the timer doesn’t seem to have ‘counted down’ any more…. wonder if it’s really [...]
Image via CrunchBase Zemanta is a superb recommendation tool for blogs – we’ve bee using it here on Creative Agency Secrets for years after seeing it on David Cushman’s blog. Its easy to use, helps us create professional content in minutes and best of all enables our content to feed back to other blog sites. [...]
Found a nice service with a fee plus paid-for analytics solution for Twitter accounts. Called Ad.ly Analytics it uses the Twitter API to assess your personal account. Here’s the image of mine. I like the USA geographical assessment – who are all the Texans following me? It also looks at the time of day you [...]
Catching up on my (normal) reading backlog, I attacked the Experiential Marketing Essays supplement from September in Marketing magazine. Ten agencies write articles that are printed as full pages opposite a display advert for their services. Some might see it as a double whammy appealing to those who read articles as well as those who [...]
The Clutrain Manifesto was a significant moment in future-gazing for a world that is now very clearly with us. The authors have re-published the book with some additional chapters by themselves and another luminary, JP . Which will be great and some added thought-provoking chapters to digest. What was so great about Cluetrain? It [...]
I have returned from the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) conference in Austin, USA and, as last year, I attended some great sessions and met interesting people. This year I was also speaking at the conference. With the recession beginning to affect agency businesses I sought out those sessions that might be useful learning and [...]






