Digital Day Out #ddo16 conference notes

Dan Waugh, Comvita Marketing is about creating emotive experiences with a product or service.  Dan Waugh works for Comvita as a ICT / futurist. Virtual reality enables you to create an emotive experience that’s better than video.  Dan showed us a real video they shot in 360 video of Manuka bee hives to get experience as a […]

How to get testimonials for your business

How to get testimonials for your business

 Firstly get a page set up on your domain where you can drop in all the quotes we get from clients. Recommendations: Lay out the page so the most recent testimonial is at the top and the reader scrolls down to see others. Take all testimonials and make a long and a short “sound bite” version.  Put the short […]

Joint Venture Case Study

Case Study: feel good joint venture for sporting website

Recently Creative Agency Secrets oversaw a joint venture campaign between our client, Rowperfect UK, the premier rowing education website, and manufacturer Crew Stop. The goal of the campaign was threefold: Raise awareness for National Learn To Row Day (4th June), a popular annual event in the USA but a concept that hadn’t yet carried over […]

Step 5: Relationship Development

Step 5: Relationship development

This fifth step is where the hard work, diligence and persistence pay off in your search for success in new business development. People buy from people they know, like and trust and so having an active relationship with prospects who remember your name when they want to and can get in touch with you easily […]

Guest article

Should I accept Guest Articles on our website?

Do you get emails from content marketers offering to give you articles to publish on your website? Sometimes these can seem suspicious because they come from an unfamiliar email.  And so I thought this was a good time to review the opportunity that guest articles offer to business websites. Is it on-topic? A client of […]

How to Get Leads from your Business Website

This speech was given to the Grey Lynn Business Association on 10th June 2016.  It includes tips on testing how your website is working, 12 ways to make local marketing work including inbound and outbound marketing tactics. How to Get Leads to your Business Website from Rebecca Caroe No related posts.

Grey Lynn Business Association Seminar

How to get your business website bringing in leads and enquiries

Finding a new client can be challenging. Nowadays many prospects look online before getting in touch by email or phone. Without a good website, you are losing sales. Do you know how to test the effectiveness of your website? To help businesses figure out the best solutions to this, the Grey Lynn Business Association is hosting the […]

14 test questions for inbound success

14 Test Questions For Inbound Success On Your Website

Hubspot founders Dharmesh Shah and Brian Halligan are the authors of Inbound Marketing, an insightful, short and easy-to-read guide to enhancing your website and thinking about it as a key tool in attracting clients. They compare their now-popular “inbound” techniques to the giants and show neophyte business owners how to improve their web presence, increase […]

abandoned cart email campaign

Reclaiming lost income with an abandoned cart email campaign

Ecommerce is, by its nature, prone to being a slave to usage stats. The most important of these being conversions, or how many people your website can convince to transition from spectator to a purchaser. A little-considered but significant subset of that data is the proportion of abandoned carts. What is an Abandoned Cart? Any […]

marketing manufacturer zero to hero

Case Study: zero to local hero for manufacturer

Auckland manufacturing firm, Cabjaks makes kitchen cabinets.  They worked with Creative Agency Secrets for 3 months to improve their keyword natural search results, SEM and on-site keyword SEO. Summary of outcomes: Adwords results In January when we started they sold a small amount of goods based on clicks from Adwords. By March the revenues from Adwords clicks were […]