How Being More Social Can Get You More Sales…

Nowadays literally anyone can talk to anyone! Most social media platforms now give you access to groups of people or organisations that have identified interests, needs or expertise. Rather than broadcasting messages out into the world through various means you can now start a simple conversation without having to appear as someone conducting market research on the edge of a high street.
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WHAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT…

Social media has been hugely beneficial to small businesses. It offers opportunities to share and collaborate with others, to reach customers and partners and keep up to date with what’s going on… Continue reading WHAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT…

How To Use Social Media To Turn Customers Into Brand Advocates.

Large businesses may have staff numbers and big advertising budgets in their favour, but small businesses have some advantages that are arguably way more important. They have the ability to engage directly and personally with their customers. The sheer number of customers that big businesses have make personal engagement almost impossible. How many times have you made contact with your phone provider or bank and thought “this is a terrible experience”? If you’re like most people, it’s all the time.

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An Overview Of Online Payment Processing Methods For Your Business

Making it as easy as possible for customers and clients to pay increases our chances of getting the cash,  improves cashflow and reduces all the admin burden of dealing with payments. Online payments are no longer purely the reserve of online retail, we’re now seeing service based businesses beginning to take advantage of the benefits of processing payments online. This means the long, drawn out processes of bank visits to pay in should hopefully be a thing of the past and businesses are able to get their payments dealt with efficiently and effectively.

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How to Market your Business at Christmas

Unfortunately most businesses, let alone small businesses, don’t have the luxury of a John Lewis-sized advertising budget when it comes to marketing around the Christmas period – or any other time of the year for that matter… But this doesn’t mean that all hope is lost. Small businesses almost have an easier job when it comes to reaching out to old and new customers alike as they have the advantage of being small enough to know, and hopefully, understand their customer base.

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