Eco-Friendly Rentals: How Sustainable Upgrades Can Lower Costs and Boost Appeal

By Marketme | 5th June 2025

Are you thinking about making your rental more eco-friendly? Or maybe you’re just curious if that bamboo toilet paper craze has crept into real estate? Either way, welcome. Let’s talk about the green stuff (yes, money too) and how going eco doesn’t have to mean spending a fortune on solar panels and moral superiority. Honestly,…

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Maximizing Rental Income: Budget-Friendly Improvements That Make a Big Impact

By Marketme | 5th June 2025

Raising rent without actually improving anything is… kind of a jerk move. Tenants know when a place isn’t worth the price hike. And frankly, so do you. But here’s the good news: You don’t need a gut renovation or a second mortgage to boost your rental income. Small, budget-friendly updates can make a surprisingly big…

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Mastering YouTube: 5 steps for creating brand-driven content

By Marketme | 4th June 2025

By Molly McDonald, Blue Door Productions The purpose of social media content as a brand, is to create an all-encompassing public perception of your product or service – rather than just advertise it. For example, Red Bull uses social media to create a brand image extremely well. At its core, Red Bull is an energy…

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Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet – 2014

By Marketme | 26th March 2014

If you are an inbound marketer or own a web business like me, you probably know how powerful to have beautiful looking social media accounts and the effect of sharing your content with a well-designed visual. An image says more than words can explain! Right? Now that even Twitter allows you to share your content…

Why Estate Agents Are Falling Behind On Social Media?

By Marketme | 26th March 2014

Estate agents are falling behind on social media marketing. As a rule, they are relying far too heavily on websites to advertise and sell homes. Facebook strategies are effective ways of reaching their target audience – home sellers and buyers – and are either free to manage in-house (if you have a trained member of staff),…

How to maximise data for your marketing campaign.

By Marketme | 26th March 2014

How to maximise data for your marketing campaign and how, where and when to use social media: At The Media Octopus, we believe that a strong marketing campaign, no matter how big or small, is vital to the success of any business. With consumers being bombarded with information on a daily basis, thanks to growth…

Social, “Do you want Web with that?”

By Marketme | 26th March 2014

Over the past few weeks I have been spending a lot of time conducting a series of Social Training sessions. One of the things that has really surprised me throughout these sessions, is peoples understanding of what Social is for. We can break Social Media useage into three distinct camps. First there is the private…

Change your Twitter approach right now!

By Marketme | 26th March 2014

Back Drafts and the Flutter of Tweets Ok, so here we are in 2014 and things are changing so fast it’s like standing on the side of a freeway feeling the back draft as traffic whizzes past. As you watch vehicles pass and you are never likely to see those particular cars again. Can you…

YouTube: Time wasting, or superhero?

By Marketme | 25th March 2014

Have you ever thought about using YouTube to marketing your business? What part does it play a part in helping you sell more?  I bet I have a different answer to you! Yes, I know it’s meant to be the really big thing of 2014, but do you really think it works? Is YouTube marketing…

How to use social media if you have a ‘boring’ product.

By Marketme | 25th March 2014

We all see it, either companies that are seen as boring struggling to post interesting content, or bare facebook pages and twitter timelines because who the hell cares about cheese crackers. To be fair, Energizer and Ritz actually support the arguemnt that most companies, no matter how dull the product seems, can post relevant content…

Building effective Twitter connections.

By Marketme | 25th March 2014

Like receiving a five match ban, Twitter follow limits are frustrating. How can you possibly continue building effective twitter connections? Leadamo Academy talks twitter limits and building effective twitter connections Some of you might have reached a Twitter follower limit. Have a look at your account. What’s the ratio of following to followers? That can…

Chapatis and Twitter are part of doing business.

By Marketme | 24th March 2014

After scanning my Twitter timeline which is now a regular part of my daily routine I noticed a tweet from @MattNavarraUK saying that it was Twitter’s 8th Birthday so you can discover your very first tweet.  Like lots of other cool things I’ve found on social media, I gave it a whirl.  I was pleasantly…

Should you invest more time in a company blog or Twitter?

By Marketme | 24th March 2014

Should you invest more time in a company blog or Twitter? A question I have seen banded about of late, is whether or not Twitter is the best way forward for brands to connect with their consumers, or whether the blog is the best platform for making that connection. Surely, the answer is both? Why…

What does Turkey’s Twitter trouble tell us?

By Marketme | 24th March 2014

This is an unusual Leadamo Academy post as it strays slightly outside its usual remit of offering helpful hints and tips about twitter. What does Turkey’s twitter trouble tell us? Not that we are straying far from twitter it’s just this time we are considering social media as a much bigger entity. Why? Well it’s…