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#MarketingTitbits - Marketing Lessons From Mourinho, Pinterest for SMEs and a 'video puzzle'!

1. How small business can use PinterestIf you haven’t heard about Pinterest by now, it is surely only a matter of time. We brought this great social media tool to your attention over a year ago now and since then it has gone from strength…
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#MarketingTitbits - Videos on Instgram, Kanye's Marketing Lessons and free fonts

Instagram gets videos For those of you that use Instagram, you’ll be interested to know that the photo sharing platform launched its new video feature on Friday. Surely prompted by the recent success of Vine, users now have the ability to…
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#MarketingTitbits - Choose the Perfect LinkedIn Photo, Tips for Company Colour Schemes and Tennis: a history in ads

How to choose your LinkedIn profile photoAs you know, LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional networking site, with over 200million members in over 200 countries. Now the odds are, you probably have a profile on it (if you don’t, it…
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#MarketingTitbits - Looking to brush up on your technical skills? Great apps everyone is talking about right now and books on marketing!

Looking to brush up on your Photoshop skills? If you’d like to develop your creative and technical skills in a cost-effective way, then take a look at this great website with over 1,900 video courses in a range of topics from design and photography…
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Who Will Village - Biannual Update

This month we received the biannual report from the Who Will Village in Cambodia. Here we sponsor a little girl called Sreylim through ‘CamKids’, The Cambodian Children’s Charity. The Who Will Village work very hard all year round to improve…
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#MarketingTitbits - Top apps for the 1%, will Google Glass be good for ecommerce and Rory McIlroy vs. a robot golf match!

Top apps for the 1% As an app designer, competing with the likes of Google and Facebook is a hard job, unless you are very smart about it. There is a lot of pre-existing competition for mainstream apps that target mass audiences. Because…
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CamKids Newsletter Summer 2013

This week, we received the summer 2013 newsletter from the charity that we support, CamKids. CamKids main aim is to support children in Cambodia whose parents are either too poor or for another reason, unable to support them. CamKids have had…
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SEO: Video makes a difference

Last month, we provided you with a series of top tips to help you improve the visibility of your website, by uploading regular, quality content.  To help you make the most of your website, the second part of our ‘demystifying SEO’ blog…
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#MarketingTitbits - Coca-Cola advert banned, must-follow twitter accounts for entrepreneurs and digital marketing campaigns from McDonald's!

Coca-Cola advert banned for misleading exercise claimsThe Advertising Standards Authority has clamped down on Coca-Cola this week. Their advertising campaign that shows a can of coke to have 139 calories and all the things you can do to burn…
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Are you getting on the Royal Baby bandwagon?

With the arrival of the Royal Baby, Britons everywhere have suddenly busted out there patriotic fervour, last seen this time last year for the Olympics, to mark the occasion. Keen not to miss a trick, the country’s marketers have greeted the…
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#MarketingTitbits - how top retailers are using Pinterest, before they were famous & subliminal messaging in logos

1. A year on, how do the top 10 UK retailers use Pinterest? Since its launch in 2010, Pinterest has become the third largest social networking site behind Facebook and Twitter with 11million visits a week. The majority of its users are female…
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#MarketingTitbits - 'Line' the next big messaging App, Google launch marketing course & 10 bizarre businesses

1. Messaging app ‘Line’ takes on WhatsApp & Viber with 200million + usersIf you want to make free phone calls and send free messages to your friends then Line could be the app for you. What makes Line different from the plethora of other…
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#MarketingTitbits - e-books as a marketing technique, entrepreneurs on LinkedIn and 'Good to Great'

1. Using free books as a marketing strategy As more and more blogs flood the internet, it is becoming even harder for bloggers to stand out from the crowd. However, a new trend is emerging in the world of blogging and this is the creation of…
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#MarketingTitbits - Facebook campaigns by Ikea, 'Brick by Brick' and tips on being social media savvy from Richard Branson.

1. Six awesome examples of Facebook campaigns by Ikea Ikea is the world’s largest furniture retailer, amassing sales last year of £186 billion, selling ready to assemble furniture in 38 countries around the world. Unsurprisingly, Ikea has…
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#MarketingTitbits - Worst smartphone event ever, 100 inspirational quotes and 8 reasons to love Marmite's markting.

Worst smartphone event ever? – 20 people injured at LG G2 launch Most of us will be familiar with LG, the South Korean multi-national conglomerate that makes electronics, chemicals & telecom products and distributes them across 80 countries…
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