Case study: email marketing drives sales for Space Saver

We take pride in our ability to create successful email marketing campaigns that deliver measurable results. We meticulously plan emails to be sent so each one is effective and engaging to the target audience. Here are two case studies: The sports equipment brand Space Saver Rowing Systems (SSRS) is a rowing boathouse equipment retailer. They […]

Free training: What can we do to improve our Search Rankings?

The Blogging Concentrated team are coming to New Zealand in May from 1st to 9th 2015.  Creative Agency Secrets are their hosts and we are running one-day training events in Auckland, Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch for you to learn about how to make your business website effective as a marketing and sales tool. Ahead of the […]

Are you the CEO of your business website?

Yes I’m asking you if you drive business success from your website? Is someone in charge of making your firm’s website successful?  Making the websitedeliver business goals?  It doesn’t matter if you’re self-employed or work for a giant corporation, if you have a website we will teach you how to drive proactive success with Blogging […]

Entrepreneurs digital marketing extra content

Huge thanks to Amaka Gessler for inviting me to the Entrepreneur Networking with a Twist Meetup last night.  I promised to share my slides and have also pulled together a listof all the other material I shared.  Here’s Amaka’s notes from the talk. Rebecca Caroe Speech Slides As promised, here are my slides and links […]

New discovery regarding Google PageRank

Why Google PageRank may differ The other day we noticed that one of our client’s Google PageRank suddenly dropped. The reason we noticed that was because we did a search on CheckPageRank to see how their website matched up. With a quick search on the Google FAQ page we found out that the reason to the major […]

Writing a price change email for Event Marketing

Occasionally I receive the PERFECT message – well-written, timely and full of lessons to copy and adapt.  Copyblogger Media is running an event and…. well you work out why you think they needed to write this message. Use the same paragraph topics if you need to use a similar tactic to fill your event with […]

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Business Websites should not use a slider carousel

We’ve been researching  sliders on website home pages for a client.  His designer has come up with two website layouts and one includes a slider. My instincts say “don’t do it”  but I need justification.  My search shows up four great articles – note most of them recommend alternatives and all of them say that […]

Business & Marketing Tip: Following up with leads and relationships

A mutually beneficial client winning strategy Marketing education is a big part of our overall new business strategy. At Creative Agency Secrets we strive to find ways to connect with our potential clients and be a part of their marketing success whether they work with us or not. We hold complimentary marketing management and idea […]

Creating Direct Share Links: Share Link Generator

The other day we were sitting here creating a Google Form survey and thought “gee I wish we could embed some way for respondents to share this survey!”. Well, one quick Google search later and we came across Share Link Generator. What as Share Link Generator? Quite simply, Share Link Generator is a tool that […]

Get your business started with SnapChat marketing

Ever thought SnapChat wasn’t suitable for brand marketing?  Think again – there’s now a clever desktop dashboard which brand managers can use to drive communications through this popular channel. So what is SnapChat? SnapChat doesn’t want to be called social media. Instead, they describe themselves as content editors and artists, not for clicks and shares. With […]