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We all hate January – it’s cold (especially this January! Brrr!!), the festive season is all over and the fun and frolics of Christmas and New Year are now firmly set as a few extra inches round our waistlines. So for this reason, SMEketing have decided to launch a new offer – limited to just [...]

If you’ve not heard of Google Alerts, then I recommend you have a bit of an experiment with them today. Simply put (by Google themselves): “Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. Some handy uses of Google Alerts include: monitoring [...]

SMEketing pride ourselves on being a full service, modern marketing agency, We offer a host of services to our clients, from traditional brochure design, copywriting, all the way to social media marketing and search engine optimisation. However, recently there has been a real trend for a specific service – website design. For a small business, [...]

A lot of the posts here on the SMEketing Small Business Blog are regarding social media – Twitter, Facebook, blogging etc. That’s not just because it’s a service we offer – it’s because the way people use the Internet, and more importantly, consumer behaviour, is changing. It used to always be about interruption marketing – [...]

Facebook is a global social networking site. Many of you may use it personally, however have you ever thought of using it for your small business?  Facebook is the number one social networking site; there are more than 220 million active users with about half a million people joining every day. Facebook increased its U.S. [...]

At last! Twitter has come up with a way in which you can organise the people you follow on Twitter. Previously, everybody you followed, whether they were a friend, colleague or client, was lumped into one big Twitter pot under the heading of ‘Following’. All those people that you follow on Twitter, all mixed up, [...]

Squidoo is a free site in which users can create single web pages on particular subjects. These web pages are called lenses. In February this year there were over 900,000 hand built lenses on a variety of different subjects – so no matter what your small business is, there is space for you to create [...]

Twitter has hit the mainstream, it’s official. It started 2009 with 6 million users, and has now grown to over 16 million users today. If you’re not already using Twitter, then you should be. Check out these posts to learn why and how: Twitter: Small Business Success Stories – Will yours be one of them?  Guide [...]

You can’t miss the doom and gloom of the current economic climate. All businesses, large and small, must carefully spend their marketing budget. Gone are the days of frivolous spending. So I wanted to outline five cost effective ways of spending your small business marketing budget. With online marketing become more and more vital as [...]

Okay, so I hope I’ve managed to convince you of the marketing benefits of getting your small business on Twitter. Now, as promised here is SMEketing’s guide to getting started. It’s extremely simple; however it does come with a warning though – Twitter can be seriously addictive! Create an account and set up your profile: [...]