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The Pros and Cons of Outsourcing Social Media Marketing
If, like me, you find yourself dedicating more and more time to social media, you’re certainly not alone. In a recent survey by our sister website, 56% of business owners claimed to be spending at least 5 hours a week managing their social media profiles, and a staggering 28% are spending over 10 hours a week! Continue reading “The Pros and Cons of Outsourcing Social Media Marketing” »
New Google Plus Cover Photo Dimensions + Downloadable Photoshop Template
No sooner had we finished publishing our post on creating great looking Google Plus Cover Photos, than on March 6th, Google completely changes the layout of its user profiles and brand pages giving us a whole new set of dimensions (and headaches) to work with.
So we’ve spent the last few days reviewing these changes and as ever we’ve got some great tips AND a downloadable Photoshop Template Continue reading “New Google Plus Cover Photo Dimensions + Downloadable Photoshop Template” »
Facebook Cover Photo & Profile Picture Sizes + Photoshop Template & 7 Top Tips
Following on from our post last week about image sizes for your Google+ Business Page, this week our attention turns to Facebook Cover Photo & Profile Picture sizes as we reveal some of the tricks of the trade to get your images looking sharp.
Oh, and just like last week we’ve included a downloadable Photoshop Template to get you started Continue reading “Facebook Cover Photo & Profile Picture Sizes + Photoshop Template & 7 Top Tips” »
Google+ Cover Photo & Profile Image Sizes for Business Page + 8 Top Tips
For some time now we’ve been working hard on our Social Media profiles, not least the newest of the bunch; Google+. One of the first tasks we undertook was to brand our Google+ business page so that people would instantly recognise us, but as we quickly discovered, this isn’t quite as easy as Google would have us believe… Continue reading “Google+ Cover Photo & Profile Image Sizes for Business Page + 8 Top Tips” »
How to add the Facebook Recommendation Bar to your Website (and how to stop it from opening all the time!)
In this, the second in our series of guides focussing on the integration of social media plugins, this week we’re looking in detail at Facebook’s ‘Recommendation Bar’ by a) finding out if it’s as easy to install as Facebook claim, and b) conducting our own (rather non-scientific) tests to find out if it was worth all the hype. Continue reading “How to add the Facebook Recommendation Bar to your Website (and how to stop it from opening all the time!)” »
My top 2013 UK conferences and events for web developers, SEM professionals and website owners
I’ve attended a variety of these annual expos and conferences over the years and in general found them really useful for keeping up to date in this ever changing, fast paced industry. Continue reading “My top 2013 UK conferences and events for web developers, SEM professionals and website owners” »
How To Load Social Buttons Asynchronously
Last week we set ourselves the challenge to find out how much page load time we could shave off our sister website, the UK Business Directory using Firefox’s neat little ‘Page Speed’ extension (available through Firebug). Now a few years ago this task would have been pretty straightforward and involved the re-optimising of images Continue reading “How To Load Social Buttons Asynchronously” »
3 Step Guide to Online Marketing for Start-up Businesses
If you’ve just started out in business, you’ve probably heard all about how online marketing and, in particular, social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and the like) can help your business to quickly grow by connecting with people either locally, nationally or even Internationally. Continue reading “3 Step Guide to Online Marketing for Start-up Businesses” »
Google +1 Button Launches
The long anticipated worldwide launch of Google’s +1 button finally arrived this week, but what does this mean for website owners? Continue reading “Google +1 Button Launches” »