Do you need an SEO Expert?
As a UK SEO company we are bound to say YES, but the answer is actually a yes and no as you need to manage your internet marketing campaign. Any internet marketing campaign needs to be a partnership between the website designer, website developer, seo expert and business owner. This partnership must have clear boundaries and responsibilities and most important of all needs to be managed by the business owner. The first step is to recruit and SEO expert this can be by taking on a full time...
Read MoreBrand monitoring on social media
In today’s world you need to know what people are saying about your company and brand. On social media a lot of influence is exerted that will help people make purchasing decisions. One tool that can help is from Social Mention (see socialmention.com). This will give you a scorecard of your current position across a big selection of social media sites and tools. Social Mention monitors 100+ social media properties directly including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google...
Read More5 reasons you need a business plan
Five Reasons you Need a Business Plan When I am asked to explain why business planning is so important, my first inclination is to quote Lewis Carroll. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice comes to a fork in the road and asks: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where–” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter...
Read MoreSWOT Analysis
The SWOT analysis framework is a key tool to use when creating your marketing strategy. The outcomes of any analysis should be considered in the marketing plan but will also impact other aspects of the business. The key aspect in any marketing strategy is to fully understand where you stand with respect to your competitors. For this, we use a SWOT analysis to identify your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. A SWOT analysis allows you to look at your environment from within and...
Read MoreVerify your internet marketing strategy
We are now heading to the new year and to many businesses another challenging year ahead, now is the best time to review internet marketing and website strategy. Praeparo are offering a 50% reduction on our strategy workshop was £995 now £495. For this you get an expert on site for a day to discuss your website and internet marketing strategy and help you validate the current plan and discuss improvements and way forwards. This is not a formal report generation meeting but a real person...
Read MoreCan we learn from reality TV?
I have been thinking recently about how reality TV is so successful and if this can be mapped to viral marketing. If you think about reality TV programmes it is all about the programme makers seeding enough information to gain momentum outside of the programme. Each programme wants people to spend the week promoting an act or contestant on the programmes behalf and even better if they then say bad things about the competition. So when looking at marketing we want to seed just enough about our...
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