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Marketing Titbits - Picture Monkey, Meetup & the latest update from Google Adwords

1. Want to quickly edit a picture, but don’t have Photoshop? Picture Monkey could be the answer. This online photo editing tool provides you with the opportunity to edit your images quickly from any computer, whether you are at home or in…
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Fine-tune your email marketing

Modern marketing requires the use of a balanced blend of marketing channels, all working in harmony for the common good – to grow your business. One channel that many small businesses mistakenly overlook is email, assuming customers view…
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Marketing Titbits - Tumblr, Facebook's conversion measurement tool & Robert Cialdini’s book 'Influence'

1.Influence Robert Cialdini’s book 'Influence', is a must read for anyone involved in marketing a business. The book explores the 6 central pillars of Influence: reciprocity, consistency and commitment, liking, social proof, authority and…
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Marketing Titbits - HootSuite, UberConference and Malcolm Gladwell's book 'The Tipping Point'

1. HootSuite HootSuite has been around since 2008 and has established itself as a market leading social media management programme. It is entirely free for you to create an account, but as you'd expect, they also provide a paid-for version,…
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Marketing Titbits - a Google + update, become a Photoshop expert and Snapchat

1. Google + update When talking about social media with clients, one of the questions we frequently get asked is what about Google +? Is it worthwhile investing time in? The short answer is, probably. Google + is quietly going about its business,…
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Marketing Titbits - Pinterest analytics, hashtags for Facebook and Dropbox

Pinterest Analytics: If you have a very visual website, with lots of imagery that visitors might like to share with their friends, family, colleagues or business network, have you started exploring how the latest social media phenomenon, Pinterest,…
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Marketing Titbits - an unusual job on LinkedIn, what makes companies great and Trello

Pope Job advertised on LinkedInIf proof be needed that LinkedIn has become a fixture of the global business community, the fact that the recently vacant position of Pope was advertised on the social media site should be evidence enough. There…
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Marketing Titbits - Crowd Funding, Marketing Grader & Delivering Happiness

1. Crowd funding: By now, you must have heard about Crowd Funding. It is a relatively new and innovative way of raising funds for a project or business, without the need to go to the bank and ask for a loan. You might ask why are we referencing…
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Marketing Titbits - MarketingWeekLive, When Advertising Goes Wrong and PageSpeed Insights

1. MarketingWeekLive - get your ticketsThe UK’s largest marketing event takes place between the 26 – 27th June 2013 at London conference venue, Olympia. With over 450 exhibitors addressing all things marketing, a plethora of free ‘conference’…
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Making your marketing work

Spring has sprung…finally.  This is a good time of year to reflect back on the last few months and decide what worked and what didn’t for your business. All too often, companies at the start of the year create and launch marketing campaigns…
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Marketing Titbits - 5 Free Image Websites, Most Complained-About-Ads of 2012 and Card Munch

1. Free Images: They say ‘a picture speaks a thousand words’, but these days, it can also cost a £1000. We remember the days, only 7 or 8 years ago, when you could purchase high-res, quality images from stock image sites for a £1 or so.…
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#MarketingTitbits - Tagging On Instagram, Tips From Obama's Marketing Team & YouTube 8 Years On

Instagram introduces taggingIf you are a Facebook user, you’ll be familiar with tagging. Social media picture sharing app Instagram has now introduced the feature to its platform, which enables users to tag anything or anyone that has an Instagram…
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#MarketingTitbits - McDonalds face a tricky PR situation, P Diddy does Downton Abbey and PicMonkey

1. McDonalds in PR conundrum McDonalds have got themselves into an interesting conundrum by promising publicly, by the way of a press release, that they will ‘be reaching out’ to Charles Ramsey, the man credited with saving the three kidnapped…
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#MarketingTitbits - Top 100 Global Brands, Microsoft vs. Google and Mobile Payment Apps

1. The top 100 most valuable global brands of 2013 The annual BrandZ most valuable global brands list has been released and Apple keeps hold of the top spot for another year. According to Millward Brown Optimor, the BrandZ list compilers,…
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SEO: Content is key!

Over the past few years, there have been several changes to Google’s SEO algorithms. It feels as if as soon as companies start to master search engine optimisation, Google decides to move the goal posts. This can be frustrating for businesses;…
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