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108 Health Myths You Still Believe: Marketing and Branding Strategies: Sparkah's Unabridged Dictionary of Tactics

asmith007 — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:54:04 +0000

108 Health Myths You Still Believe: Marketing and Branding Strategies: Sparkah's Unabridged Dictionary of Tactics:

Nobody will tear out your ad, take it home, unfold it from their pocket, turn on the computer, and type in WWW.BLANKer.com

Ironic. Frustration and heavy drinking doesn’t happen when your efforts fail. Misery strikes when you run out of ideas.

The following list is a…

New window displays for Avanti this Christmas

asmith007 — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:21:49 +0000

New window displays for Avanti this Christmas

Urine Test, makes total sense!

asmith007 — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:15:48 +0100

Now I didn’t want to get political on my blog especially as I haven’t posted anything for a while however what follows makes perfect sense so if you do agree please re-blog or re-tweet. Thanks!

Subject: Urine Test
(This was written by a rig worker in the North Sea - What he says makes a lot of sense!)
I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to earn that pay cheque, I work on a rig for a drilling contractor. I am required to pass a random urine test for drugs and alcohol, with which I have no problem.
What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don’t have to pass a urine test. Shouldn’t one have to pass a urine test to get a benefits cheque because I have to pass one to earn it for them?
Please understand that I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do on the other hand have a problem with helping someone sit on their arse drinking beer and smoking dope.
Could you imagine how much money the government would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a benefit cheque?
Please pass this along if you agree or simply delete it if you don’t.
Hope you will pass it along though, because something has to change in the UK , and soon!

bigblueyes marketing outsourcing

asmith007 — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:27:07 +0100

Whilst speaking to a number of clients I’ve discovered that more and more of them need help with all elements of their businesses promotion. Too often my approach has been centred around a core offering which doesn’t totally fulfill the needs of small businesses. Many business owners say I want a website or direct mail campaign without considering what other marketing is happening in the business and how that is effecting business growth.

I’ve recently increased my involvement with a local retailer to oversee all of his marketing spend and measure the results. This has come on the back of a meeting with a big player in the listings market with whom he spent £18K last year . What return on this investment has he had? Well a number of phone calls and clicks on his website but how much real profit he gained is uncertain.

As I’ve been working on a number of smaller projects with him he’s asked me to step in and help him further and it’s at this point the realisation hit me. This is what small business owners really need. It’s not about putting an email campaign together or creating a fantastic new website they need to better understand how they market, what this costs and what benefit they get from it!!

Many don’t have the time to research what strategies to employ when marketing their business and do what they’ve always done and never look into the effect of it. The resource just isn’t available in most small businesses and the expense of employing someone full time is just not possible.

It’s in this role I feel that I can add real value and hope to make a massive difference to spend and the impact it has.

I’m now rationalising all of their output, have halved his budget and am attempting to bring some clarity to a previously fragmented approach. This we both feel will benefit the business by allowing me to try new things, learn what works for him and focus my efforts there.

It doesn’t have to be a big spend either, if every business owner out there looked at what they spend on adhoc adverts in newspapers, local classifieds and magazines, radio, online advertising, direct mail etc , etc they’d probably be shocked at how much, and the lack of information relating to the success of this spend.

Many business owners simply don’t have the time to be bothered with it, their main focus is running the business. What I now intend to do is help businesses with this, address their spend and work with them to employ the right tactics to improve profitability and client retention. And while I do this the business owner can concentrate on doing what they do best and leave the business of promoting their services to me!!

108 Health Myths You Still Believe: Social Media Marketing: How to Use Facebook Pages

asmith007 — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:17:52 +0100

108 Health Myths You Still Believe: Social Media Marketing: How to Use Facebook Pages:

I just found Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop on the same topic. But since the link he posted for a free ebook download seems like a email harvesting scam, I’ll just share with you my Facebook marketing secrets.

80% of my traffic comes from Facebook friends. 10% comes from Twitter. The rest come…

Channel designs new blog is here...

asmith007 — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:52:28 +0100

Channel designs new blog is here...

Email marketing!

asmith007 — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:40:00 +0100

E-mail marketing enables you to proactively communicate with existing prospects and clients instead of passively waiting for them to return to your website, visit you, or call you on the phone. In fact it allows you to communicate compelling calls to action that can massively increase your incoming contact and web traffic. If you don’t have email software this can be a very labour intensive activity. Our service takes the strain from you, allowing you to concentrate on running your business. Hopefully more effectively due to the management information we can provide!

Want to explore how we can help you with effective email marketing and really make a difference to your brand awareness and most importantly profitability?

Web design Ashbourne

asmith007 — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:29:52 +0100

One thing we love and that’s living and working in Ashbourne. Not only is the community amazing but Ashbourne is a town on the up. We’re engaged in web design and marketing for a number of clients in and around Ashbourne and are enjoying working with forward thinking people who are looking to develop their business using the online world. We’re part of the Ashbourne Chamber of Trade who are intent on working with the council and all residents of the town to make Ashbourne the new “Bakewell”!!! Capturing this story online and working together with coherent marketing strategies will help to attract tourists, businesses and increase the economic stability of the town. Any input on this please get in touch. Promoting Ashbourne across the web will be for the good of all! See us at www.bigblueyes.co.uk

Web design offer

asmith007 — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:10:00 +0100

We’re so excited that our website is now fully up and running we felt like having a party, and we want to invite you all along!

Obviously we can’t all get together and have a party, our studio just isn’t big enough! However we would like to offer you a little present, 10% off our standard hourly rate!

So why not join the bigblucrew!

Sign up to help us help you during May and not only will you get your discount pressie, the work we do will mean you receive an extra bonus of tonnes more business!

www.bigblueyes.co.uk

We are now Live!!!

asmith007 — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:50:00 +0100

Well we finally made it and have launched our new site. It’s information lead so people easily know what we’re all about and can get in contact to find out how we can help them make more money! Website design and marketing is a key element to every business so we hope we can engage more clients and support their business growth!

hello

asmith007 — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:23:34 +0100

All we need now is to add the missing copy

asmith007 — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:49:58 +0100

With all websites even for us the most time consuming element is the copy writing. It’s always a pain for our clients and I now share their pain!! We always support our clients with their copy writing which is a damn site easier than drafting it all yourself!! So next time when frustrations run high over copy not being delivered on time I’ll remember this experience!!!!

superheroeswardrobe: Fantastic improv video, very very...

noblematt — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:20:11 +0000

superheroeswardrobe:

Fantastic improv video, very very funny.

paulknebel:

One of the best videos I’ve seen in a looong time, this guy creates a new song (piano included) for every new Chat Roullette person he meets.

Watch it, seriously.

We're Alive

mekyle — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:15:46 +0000

We’ve finally launched our website. Hope you enjoy your visit on our shiny new website.