What is social media marketing and how will it help my business?

Social media websites allow people to share content and opinions, swap ideas and talk to each other. Social media provides a really powerful way for businesses to target their potential customers. But if you want to reach your customers, you need to be where they spend time online.

If you're not using Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn to promote your business, you could fall behind your competitors.

6 hours a month on social media

The average time spent on social media sites in the UK has grown to over 6 hours a month in the past year. People now spend the majority of their internet time using social networks or blogs.
Source: Neilson

Social media accounts for 11.5% of all UK Internet visits.
Source: Experian Hitwise

The most popular reason for people to follow brands on social media sites is to find out about promotional offers and sales.
Source: Experian Hitwise

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Blogs & social media

Blogs and social media sites give businesses the opportunity to talk to customers. And equally importantly, they allow customers to talk to businesses. This makes blogs and social networking for business really powerful tools for striking up conversations with your potential customers.

These conversations can then lead to long-term relationships, more customers and increased sales. We are experts in WordPress blog design and social networking for business and can help you get the most from these technologies.

Wordpress blogs

Blog design

With a blog you can publish regular content on a particular topic and encourage your readers to respond. We will help you build a successful business blog that engages with your customers, improves your search engine rankings, generates new traffic and keeps people coming back to your website.  more details about our blogs more about blogs

Facebook marketing for business

Facebook for business

With half the UK population on Facebook, this is a market that you really can’t afford to ignore. We will explain the principles of business social networking, guide you through the process of setting up a Facebook business page and show you how to use it to attract a following for your business and market your products and services.  more details about our online shops more about Facebook for business

LinkedIn for business

LinkedIn is ideal for business to business networking and for generating good quality leads. We will help you set up an account and show you how to build a strong network of contacts that will generate leads for your business.   more details about marketing with LinkedIn more about LinkedIn for business

Twitter marketing

Twitter for business

Twitter is ideal for building brand awareness and attracting new customers to your business. It’s fun, fast and affordable. You can tweet about latest news or offers and get an instant response. We’ll get you up and running with a Twitter account and show you how to maximise its potential.  more details about website revamps and redesign more about Twitter for business

If you’d like to find out how we can help you get the most from business social networking, get in touch for a chat.


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