How to Start a Business in the UK

By Marketme | 28th July 2025

Starting your own business is an opportunity to become your own boss. There are many different types of small businesses that you can start, from consultancy services run from home to designing and creating jewellery in a studio, from catering to a mobile food van, from beauty salons to running a shop. Here’s what you…

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Upgrade Your Backyard With A Foowin Patio Set

By Marketme | 24th July 2025

Transforming your outdoor space into a personal retreat is one of the best ways to enjoy your home to the fullest. Whether you want a cozy nook for quiet mornings or a vibrant area for entertaining friends and family, investing in the right outdoor furniture can make all the difference. One of the easiest and…

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Why Metrics Alone Can’t Drive Better Coaching for Remote Teams

By Marketme | 16th July 2025

You can see the numbers. Attendance rates, task completions, and idle time all sit neatly in reports. But none of these tell you why SLA performance slipped last night or why queue times keep creeping up on certain shifts. Without context, metrics become noise instead of clarity. This article explores how to go beyond basic…

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10 Tips to keep Twitter clean.

By Marketme | 20th March 2014

Leadamo Academy bases its blogs on twitter. We have covered many topics in the last year including building  twitter connections /and hashtags   for example but rarely talk about twitter as an entity. Twitter and racism; is there a connection asks Leadamo Academy? It was interesting therefore to find a study by the think tank Demos. As a knee jerk reaction…

How do I talk to celebrities on Twitter?

By Marketme | 18th March 2014

It is very common for any body new to Twitter to immediately follow names and brands that they recognise, indeed new accounts now are prompted to follow some of the better known faces and companies on Twitter upon sign up. Once you are aware that celebrities are using the likes of Twitter it is natural…

The importance of a company twitter policy

By Marketme | 18th March 2014

No Time to Tweet? Leadamo Academy suggests why this is big mistake in contemporary business practice and why a company twitter policy is essential. Leadamo Academy writes a lot about Twitter. For a social media platform that only allows 140 characters there is much to say. All the social media advisers wax lyrical about the…

Developing a social media customer service strategy.

By Marketme | 18th March 2014

Should you use social media to stay connected with your customers Leadamo Academy has suggested processes for gaining customers. But now we asking how far you have considered a social media customer service strategy. Have you integrated social media into any customer service strategy? No? Then have a look at some reasons why you should. In…

5 Mistakes Most Businesses Make Using Facebook.

By Marketme | 17th March 2014

My friend and college over at Uniquely UK, Erika (she who makes divine jewellery!) recently wrote a blog post about Getting Facebook Updates and it prompted me to think about how we use Facebook as small business owners and where we all typically go wrong. Using Facebook as a promotional tool, a marketing tool is a new concept…

Are you using Twitter correctly?

By Marketme | 17th March 2014

Twitter now stands at over 15m users in the UK from figures produced September 2013. With this growing social media networking becoming more and more important in the everyday lives of consumers and businesses, let’s run through some useful hints and tips for Twitter: Keep your Tweets brief is you can and grab people’s attention with headline comments.…

Marrying Social Media to traditional Market Research.

By Marketme | 17th March 2014

The advent of social media has thrown plethora of opportunities for marketers to uncover insights about consumers and their discussions surrounding brands, company or on any topics. Traditionally, marketers were relying on conventional research methods to obtain or gather data about consumers or on any topic. Questionnaires, surveys, interviews, focus group and other approaches were…

Social media is great. In moderation

By Marketme | 16th March 2014

I’m a big fan of social media. It’s a great way to keep in touch with friends, to follow events and, as a marketer, to help my clients engage with their target audience. But like any new technology, it’s been overhyped. In the 1950s it was widely assumed that we would all be driving atomic…

Learning and Understanding Social Media.

By Marketme | 15th March 2014

I’m writing this blog entry having spent the day at the York Railway Museum attending a S.E.O. (Search Engine Optimization) workshop and training course. In today’s fast pace of life, business owners need to try and be one step ahead of the competition. In the past, customers dug out the old yellow pages, thumbed the…

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Events and Social Shares: How They Go Hand in Hand.

By Marketme | 14th March 2014

Like many businesses, you are probably wondering how to get more of the wonderful social shares and interactions that other companies in your sector boast about. Sometimes it feels as though there is a secret formula that only a handful of people are privy to. This isn’t really the case, but a lot of hard…