Email marketing software review: iContact vs MailChimp

For small businesses and non-profit organizations, one of the easiest ways to stay in touch with customers and supporters is to send them a weekly, monthly, or quarterly email newsletter. We look at two of the biggest players in the Email Marketing software field, iContact and MailChimp.

Your first website and Google, so what happens next?

So you’ve built your first website, and you want to get found in Google.
If you’re not sure what happens and how it all works, then read on…

Google+, should Facebook be worried?

It’s been no secret that Google have been desperate to get a slice of the Social Network pie for some time now. After Google Wave failed to create a stir, is Google+ the next biggest thing? We take a look and find out…

This month at FL1

Rock ‘n Roll, school fairs, Facebook applications and more Workshops. It’s never a dull moment at FL1, that’s for sure…

8 New FREE Workshops for July and August

Due to the popularity of our Free Workshops, we’re pleased to announce 8 new workshops for July and August on Facebook, Google Analytics, Search Engine Optimsation, Social Media and more…

Tonight at St Albans Networking Group, Market your business through Facebook

We’re at the St Albans Networking Group Tonight at the White Hart Hotel, St Albans.
Tonight: Market your business through Facebook from Jason Sammon at FL1 Group

How To Use Facebook Places For Your Business

Want to have your own business show up within Facebook Places? For companies that have a physical location it makes sense to have a Facebook Place in order to track the people who are stopping by your shop, office, or venue.

As such, Facebook has released a new guide for businesses to learn how to merge Facebook Pages and Facebook Places into a single Page.

How To Use Facebook Questions for Free Market Research

When the new Facebook Questions launched in March, the assumption was that individuals would mostly use the new tool, however, communicators, public relations professionals and marketers are taking the lead in putting Facebook’s new polling feature to the test, using Questions as a fast and inexpensive market research tool.

How to Automate Your Social Media Marketing Efforts

So you’ve got all of your social media networking accounts set up, now what? Once the social media account creation tasks are complete, the next stage involves growth, building and interaction. To give you some assistance in determining what tools and strategies you could be implementing to build your customer base, your social media growth and your brand image, here’s a tip: automation. By automating parts of your social media campaign, you can save yourself a large amount of time and money.

This month at FL1

It’s been a good couple of months with lots going on. We’ve been really pleased with the WordPress platform and how it’s been developing and as a result have been pushing it to the limits. It never ceases to amaze us with the amount of quality plug-ins that deliver such great additional functionality such as [...]