This Month at FL1

It’s been busy recently with lots of interesting new stuff happening including Garth getting married, launching our new Facebook page and a new series of new Workshops.

A Facebook page for your business isn’t worth it…or is it?

Facebook tends to attract people in a personal rather than professional capacity, therefore social or consumer driven marketing has always traditionally worked well.
But what about Business to Business? Surely there’s no point, it would never work?
Here’s what happened when we tried it…

How to respond when Social Media Attacks Your Brand

No business is perfect and you can’t expect to please everyone all the time, so the best trick is to be prepared for how to handle things if your company finds itself under attack in the social realm. Here are three examples of companies who were attacked by social media and how they handled the situation…

Get the Inside Knowledge on Your Website FREE!

A key part of making any business work is being to measure its performance and make effective decisions on your findings.

Using tools such as Google Analytics, it’s possible to see what’s working and more importantly not working with your website.

Like to learn all about Google Analytics, read on…

10 reasons to start blogging

Ever considered what a blog is, why you need one and how your business could benefit?
Here’s some reasons you may want to consider before taking the plunge in to the world of “blogging”

A Social Media Case Study?

We’ve been talking at seminars throughout the county and in London for some time about Social Media and have seen first-hand how it has benefitted our business. By Social Media, I refer to the likes of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and blogging to name a few. But here’s a slightly different use for it. Over [...]

5 tips to improve your blog and engage your reader

You’re a natural blogger and can always think of lots of engaging articles to write, not only that you’ve always got time to blog. Is that you? It’s certainly not me, and it’s certainly not most people who have a blog, so how can life be made easier? Make a series You’ve probably thought of [...]

Ten ways to use LinkedIn

1. Increase your visibility. By adding connections, you increase the likelihood that people will see your profile first when they’re searching for someone to hire or do business with. In addition to appearing at the top of search results (which is a major plus if you’re one of the 52,000 product managers on LinkedIn), people [...]

Advanced Social Media Seminar, Friday 26th November, 2 places left

Blogs, Pods and Wikis is a fun and un-techie seminar that will introduce you to some of the new, advanced social media marketing tools that businesses like yours are using to expand. Next generation social media tools have bought huge opportunities for small companies to compete nationally or internationally with large organisations. Many of these [...]

Is there anybody there? six reasons why no-one is commenting on your blog posts

1. not enough traffic to your blog/website Like all communications and marketing, if people do not know about your content they won’t be able to participate. There are very few shortcuts to building significant traffic levels but the most consistent solution is an email database. It takes time to grow your own list but quality [...]