Include keyphrases in your web copy

SEO building blocks

This is the most important step when building a website that is search-engine friendly.  Don’t rely on the words/phrases that you think your target audience would search for to find a company like yours, remove the guesswork and find out exactly what is being searched for. Be as specific as possible, if you are a [...]

Make it easy to contact you

Mobile phone

Do you have a business card that gives multiple ways to contact you, or do you leave potential clients/customers needing to turn detective to find out how to get in touch? Does your website have a contact form (such as the blue Contact Us button on the left hand side of each of this site’s [...]

Top tip – the 7 hit wonder

Number 7

I am constantly banging on at my clients about the “7 hit wonder” – that is that it takes, on average, 7 times for someone to be exposed to your brand for them to think: “I’ve heard of them” and for them to think of buying from you. In other words, you need to do [...]

Do the words you use entice someone to buy?

When writing any marketing copy make sure you remember that you are trying to entice someone to buy from you.  Get to know your audience and what information they will be interested in. They are unlikely to be interested in finding out about you or your company in the first instance, but they will want [...]

Today’s Tip – Get Online: choosing a web address

Websites

Choosing a domain name (web address) for your website is not as easy as it sounds.  There are millions of websites, so many words and names have already been taken. If you are just starting out then now is the perfect time to decide on the name of your business at the same time as [...]

Top tip – a text may be all you need

Mobile phone

Isn’t it frustrating when customers don’t turn up for appointments? My hairdresser got so fed up with this happening – which is lost income as they are extremely unlikely to have another client on stand-by for that very time slot – that they now send a text reminder the day before an appointment. I have [...]

Top tip: What is a news release?

Newspapers

Put simply (and this is all a news release should be … something simple) a news release is something you send to the media as a taster on something newsworthy your company has to say. If a journalist wants to know more, they will get in touch with you – NEVER call a journalist to [...]

Is the news release dead?

Shout out loud

Journalists receive a glut of news releases every day yet may only use 1 or 2 a week.  If you couple this with the information that recent figures show that 90% of news releases are never used, it really does beg the question: is the news release dead? There is still a place for a [...]

What’s HOTS?

Take a quick online test and you will find out who you are when you are doing what you love. Basically by gauging where you stand on 20 ways of thinking you will know whether you are a hare, owl, turtle or squirrel? Not making any sense? Well, take the test and I will be [...]

Integrate Integrate Integrate

I recently spoke at a women’s networking group lunch about marketing and how small businesses and start-ups have a wide range of marketing tools available to them. As usual, I banged the drum as hard as I could about having an integrated approach when reaching (potential) customers to make sure you reach them in as [...]