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Monday, August 31st, 2009
The Social Media for Business Taster Webinar on 27th August 2009 was well received with over 25 people viewing from 4 different countries. We have captured a video and audio recording of the main content of the presentation which can be viewed below.
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Tags: aren grimshaw, smtc, social media, toby parkins, web 2.0, Web Development, webinar
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
This chatroom transcript was taken from the Social Media for Business Taster Webinar on 27th August 2009. The event itself took the form of a video and audio delivered presentation delivered in 2 parts by Toby Parkins and Aren Grimshaw. (more…)
Tags: Add new tag, aren grimshaw, smtc, social media, toby parkins, web 2.0, Web Development, webinar
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
A copy of yesterday’s ‘Social Media for Business – Social Media Taster Course‘ Powerpoint Presentations are shown below.
For all those who could not get a place on the first course, please get in touch, as we are hoping to run another event on Thursday May 7th. (more…)
Tags: smtc, social media, social media course, social media for business, social media taster course, uknetweb
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
We have recently launched a new channel on You Tube for our work in the Social Media arena.
This channel features footage of our presentations to local groups, interviews carried out at the Cornwall Twestival and links to other videos we think you may find of interest.
Please visit our channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/uknetwebsm.
Tags: cornwall twestival, Marketing, social media, uknetweb, you tube, you tube channel, youtube
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Social media is more than just another marketing channel. It offers the small and big business alike, new routes to engage and build relationships with their customers and the wider community.
It can help you understand the changing marketplace, provide a route to inform and educate your target market as well as drive new and returning business. (more…)
Tags: business strategy, cornwall twestival, facebook, market research, Marketing, PR, public relations, reputation management, social media, Social Networking, twestival, twitter
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
If you want to prosper in business during these tougher economic times then now is the time to start engaging your customers.
Customer engagement is all about engaging your customers with your company or brand and it can lead to increased order values, customer loyalty and word of mouth recommendation. (more…)
Tags: blogging, brand republic, customer engagement, customer engagement strategy, ecommerce, economic downturn, engagement, feedback and review systems, recession, statistics, survey, user generated content, web 2.0
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Ensuring you choose the right web developer to maintain or build your ecommerce website has never been more important than it is now.
With countries around the world falling into technical recessions and consumers struggling to obtain credit, ecommerce website owners need to be clever with their websites to ensure continuing growth. (more…)
Tags: Business, Christmas, ecommerce, ecommerce website, ecommerce websites, economic downturn, Goals and Funnels, Google Analytics, online statistics, profit, return on investment, uknetweb, web cart abandonment, web developer, Web Development
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
As you will have heard in yesterday’s pre-budget report, VAT will be reduced from the present rate of 17.5% to 15%, from Monday 1st December until the end of next year.
In making this move there will be many website owners, particularly those with ecommerce websites, who may need to have changes made to their website to bring the new VAT rate into action. (more…)
Tags: (CMS), 15%, 17.5%, Content Management System, ecommerce, ecommerce websites, pre-budget, uknetweb, VAT, VAT change, VAT rate, websites
Posted in Commentary, E-commerce, News, Web Development | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
You’ve spent all that time and effort promoting your business online and offline. You’re strategy is spot on and your product or service is great; however, for some reason your site is not converting interest into the levels of business you expected. (more…)
Tags: ecommerce, Funnels, Goals, Goals and Funnels, Google Analytics, online, statistics, strategy, web cart abandonment, websites
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
The last few weeks has seen a barrage of negative stories dominating the news channels around the globe.
No one can argue that the outlook is a little bleak in some quarters; however, as we hope to show you, there are still some positive rays of hope out there getting lost amongst all the talk of economic downturn and recession. (more…)
Tags: always look on the bright side, Business, downturn, ecommerce, facts, profits, recession, retail, uknetweb
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