Many would advise to dedicate as much as you can and also allow for spending budgets too in order to accumulate as much following and interaction as possible. But looking at micro to SME size businesses the scenario usually is both time and marketing investment money poor. What then is the right amount of time…

A common question that we get asked is: How do I run a successful social media campaign? Social media marketing for business is using the power of platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin in order to advertise / promote your brand. You are able to collate target audiences across these social sites meaning that…

Any good marketing person will tell you that your brand and it’s values are vital to your business success. Across Social Media you are able to convey your business message to millions and turn customers from happy ones in to raving fans. Raving Fans? This term is used for people who are in love with…

As the following on Twitter for @MarketmeTV is rapidly growing and our interaction is increasing daily, we have been asked a few times as to just who is the person(s) behind the account. As our involvement is very much full time to include Tweeting evenings and weekend, we have three main faces to the Twitter…

If you are a woman running your own business then you really need to be entering for the #WOW Award from Ann Summer CEO Jacqueline Gold. In June 2011 Jacqueline launched a campaign to support women in business, an area she is incredibly passionate about. Women On Wednesday, or #WOW, takes place every Wednesday 1-3pm…

It is a fact that technology is inescapable and those looking for partners are desperate for advice on how to use it or indeed avoid misusing it. The emergence of Social Media gives many people a new avenue to seek love and companionship with many relationship success stories being shared daily on how people are finding…

Recent surveys show that despite the increasing speed of data via the internet, watching television at home still remains the most common place for people to watch shows on TV. Ofcom’s Director of Research James Thickett said: “Our research shows that increasingly families are gathering in the living room to watch TV just as they…

Where are we Tweeting from? Fun and bizarre places we send Tweets from! With internet access becoming more and more mobile we are now able to access and update social media from many situations in many locations. So the Tweets we are seeing on our timelines might just be originating from: The Bath. As we…

As part of our continued drive to help UK businesses embrace and succeed in using Social Media effectively for their businesses, we have now launched #SMHour on Twitter where each Wednesday between 12-2pm you can ask us your questions relating to anything social media and we will get back to you with the answers. This…

Twitter was actually created on a children’s playground. Founding team member Dom Sagolla says the group went on the top of a slide at a playground in South Park in San Francisco and Jack Dorsey discussed an “idea so simple that you don’t even think about it—you just write.” The first ever Tweet was “Just setting up my twttr.” Co-founder…