Over the years I have talked to various people about why Irvine never seems to be able to get the tourist side of the town right, it’s always had the pull of the local people and it’s attraction reaches Glasgow, but in recent years visitors to the area seem hard to see, while on the [...]
It’s important for local businesses to take advantage of all marketing tools available to them.
With more and more people these days using Google to find local business it’s important your business is listed where poeple are looking. By getting your business listed on Google Maps you can out your contact details easily at the people [...]
Sometimes watching all the American TV shows, MTV and hanging about coffee shops rubs off and I start to think that the “West Coast” is Ayrshire and not California.
Have you seen the TV ad for California, can you image Ayrshire doing the same, Kris Boyd, Eddy Reeder and Sidney Devine trying to convince people to [...]
Are you losing your own business?
Many businesses don’t consider their position on search engines below the number 1 spot. Out of the 10 listings on search engine pages most businesses presume that people searching for there businesses will click on the correct URL. How does a new customer know which is the correct URL?
A while [...]
Here is a simple list of tips you should consider if marketing your website locally.
1. Get listed in local online directories.
Examples for Ayrshire: http://www.browseayrshire.com, http://www.ayr-web.co.uk
How to find more: Search Google for Region or City plus directory
2. Join your local Chamber of Commerce.
Most UK Chamber of Commerce websites have an online directory of members and there [...]
So Google has went out and bought Postini for over $600 million.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/welcome-postini-team.html
Postini provides corporate clients with communication security that in the future could integrate with both Goolge Talk and Gmail. When I saw the first news article about this I thought that Postini would provide securtity solutions to companies that display valuable information on there [...]