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Marketing Blogs For SME business owners and business leaders

LinkedIn No-No's

LinkedIn Message No-Nos! STOP sending these LinkedIn messages

It’s no secret that I see personal LinkedIn messages as the ultimate way to align your Linkedin Marketing and Social Selling strategies so that you can experience the kind of success that impacts the bottom line of your business. I’m always sharing hints and tips around best practice and what good looks like. However, over…

How to generate leads using social media

In today’s digital age, social media continues to be a powerhouse for businesses, offering unparalleled opportunities to connect with potential customers and drive sales. For SMEs in the UK, leveraging social media platforms effectively can be a game-changer in generating leads and boosting revenue. However, many business owners struggle to handle the complexities of social media marketing.

How to use Instagram and Get the Results that Matter!

It would be far too obvious for me to kick this blog off by saying that ‘everyone’ uses Instagram – that would be an absolute generalisation, and I’m sure a few of you would be shaking your head saying, “Not me!” indignantly. But the fact of the matter is that globally, this is one of the most popular social media platforms used daily, and so if we can get our heads around how to make this platform work from a business perspective firstly, those that do use it can accelerate results and secondly, those who don’t use Instagram can learn valuable lessons that could be applied across other social media platforms!

Facebook Marketing in 2024

Remember when it was really easy to use Facebook as a marketing tool? When I look back, I think, ‘Wow – we had it SO easy!’. Unfortunately, as the years have passed by, it has become more and more difficult for the untrained eye to maximise the impact of Facebook on their businesses.

content ideas and where to find them

Content Ideas and Where to Find Them

Having spent most of the last few weeks hanging out at events and with various groups of aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners, both within the recruitment industry and in other sectors, one thing is clear. One of the first questions that come from the audience is, ‘Where do you get your ideas from?’ Now, I’ve…

Social Media - Features vs Benefits

Features vs. Benefits in Social Media Marketing

Nothing is more powerful in marketing, and especially in social media marketing than promoting the benefits of your products or services over their features. And yet, so many business owners confuse the two or struggle to make distinctions.

Recruitment Marketing Congress

Recruitment Marketing Congress February 2024

This virtual event will help recruitment marketers focus their time, energy, and resources on the activities that really make a difference.

Speak to your audience

Multi-Generational Social Media Marketing – How to speak to everyone in your audience on social media

2024 is set to be a year of learning curves to ensure you’re reaching the right people, especially for those of you marketing in the B2B space. It’s the year Generation Z surpasses Baby Boomers in the workforce, introducing a blend of five distinct generational cohorts simultaneously for the very first time. What does that mean for you as a marketer?

Is your website copy boring?

How to Improve Website Copy to engage your audience

The way you communicate online plays a pivotal role in connecting with your audiences, the language you use is a crucial element that can significantly impact engagement and understanding of who you are as a business, why you do what you do and most importantly whether or not you’re the one a prospect might want to do business with. This is especially true when it comes to your website copy.

2024 - It's time to thrive

2024 – It’s time to thrive

Blimey… what a year 2023 was on all fronts – business and domestic!!!

Each year I sit down between Christmas and New Year, as many of you already know and many of you do yourselves, and set my intentions for the coming year. Usually, I release an article before the 1st January, sharing some of what I come up with.

Top 10 most read marketing articles in 2023 from the GU Blog

Top 10 Blogs 2023. It’s almost Christmas, so I thought I’d share with you our most-read blogs of this year.

Social Media Trends for 2024 – It’s all going to be about strategy! 

There will be no standing still in 2024 when it comes to marketing and to navigate this, everything will come back to strategy!

LinkedIn No-No's

LinkedIn Message No-Nos! STOP sending these LinkedIn messages

It's no secret that I see personal LinkedIn messages as the ultimate way to align your Linkedin Marketing and Social Selling strategies so that you ...

How to generate leads using social media

In today's digital age, social media continues to be a powerhouse for businesses, offering unparalleled opportunities to connect with potential customers and drive sales. For ...

How to use Instagram and Get the Results that Matter!

It would be far too obvious for me to kick this blog off by saying that 'everyone' uses Instagram - that would be an absolute ...

Facebook Marketing in 2024

Remember when it was really easy to use Facebook as a marketing tool? When I look back, I think, 'Wow - we had it SO ...
content ideas and where to find them

Content Ideas and Where to Find Them

Having spent most of the last few weeks hanging out at events and with various groups of aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners, both within the ...
Social Media - Features vs Benefits

Features vs. Benefits in Social Media Marketing

Nothing is more powerful in marketing, and especially in social media marketing than promoting the benefits of your products or services over their features. And ...
Recruitment Marketing Congress

Recruitment Marketing Congress February 2024

This virtual event will help recruitment marketers focus their time, energy, and resources on the activities that really make a difference. Over an afternoon of ...
Speak to your audience

Multi-Generational Social Media Marketing – How to speak to everyone in your audience on social media

2024 is set to be a year of learning curves to ensure you’re reaching the right people, especially for those of you marketing in the ...
Is your website copy boring?

How to Improve Website Copy to engage your audience

The way you communicate online plays a pivotal role in connecting with your audiences, the language you use is a crucial element that can significantly ...
2024 - It's time to thrive

2024 – It’s time to thrive

Blimey… what a year 2023 was on all fronts – business and domestic!!! Each year I sit down between Christmas and New Year, as many ...

Top 10 most read marketing articles in 2023 from the GU Blog

It's almost Christmas, and many of you will be disappearing already to spend a few extra days taking a well-earned break. So rather than sharing ...

Social Media Trends for 2024 – It’s all going to be about strategy! 

Well, this is interesting! Usually, when I’m putting this article together there are some core themes that I need to discuss. This year there are ...