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How to use your marketing budget wisely through the downturn

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Practical tips for marketing managers on how they can squeeze the most from SEO and capitalise on social media explosion.

As any marketing manager knows, marketing budgets took a real hammering last year.  It is sometimes seen as an easy first cut to make – reports show that around 60% of all marketing budgets were reduced in 2009. Some confidence has been restored this year, with marketing managers showing more optimism to invest, but the need to show restraint and resourcefulness will be a recurring theme until the end of this year I suspect.

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SMBs fail to harness new online technologies to stay ahead in the downturn

Monday, September 21st, 2009

A recent study of Small and Medium-sized Business (SMB) owners, commissioned for online communications specialist Amplify, found that most are not harnessing the power of new cost effective web tools for locating and engaging with customers, partners and prospects. This is despite the maturity of these technologies and the clear need for more proactive communications amid tougher market conditions.

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How to generate ROI from CRM

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Interesting article by Ian Lovatt, CEO, Blue Sheep

As marketers we need to make the most out of any technology we’ve invested in, not lease during a time of economic slowdown. You may have invested time and funds into a CRM system, so it’s vital to be able to use the tools you have, to their best effect. So how can you and your business use CRM in order to communicate effectively with each and every customer, to deliver a substantial return on investment?

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Social Media Framework

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Amplify has launched its Virtual offering, a service to set up a Social Media platform together with training, tips and techniques on how to benefit from improved marketing, brand awareness, website traffic & search engine optimisation.

Go to here for more details.

LinkedIn Polls

Monday, June 8th, 2009

The 40 million members of Linked In provide a perfect platform for low cost surveys and opinion polls. There is an application in the site called LinkedIn Polls that allows you create surveys that can be targetted at your contacts for free or at groups for $1 per response with the number of responses capped to your budget.
With the huge number of niche groups available on the site, this is a far cheaper method of generating facts and statistics for marketing and PR purposes.

Facebook for Business

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

I have recently been inundated with material regarding the use of social media for business marketing purposes, in particular Twitter and Facebook. However, it appears to be a well guarded secret that Facebook has a dedicated business section under http://facebook.com/business.
Would be interested to hear your opinions regarding using social media in business.

E-newsletter software

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Any marketing guru will tell you that e-marketing is a must for all businesses and plenty of cheap applications exist for businesses to create and format e-marketing campaigns and e-newsletters.
However, the unseen cost is in time and effort; creating a regular e-newsletter may be easy but the content is a different matter and can absorb significant effort and cost. You also need to ensure that the content is interesting and absorbing, otherwise it will end up trashed before it is even opened. Not only that, but once a regular newsletter service is announced to your clients, it is a committment.
Amplify Voice manages this by combining online newsfeeds (RSS Feeds, Blogs) with your own news and stories to provide a branded e-newsletter that is current, dynamic, compelling and relevant. Because of this, e-newsletters can be automatically distributed to your clients without any effort if you are too busy to include stories and will still be an opened mail in their inboxes. Visit www.dthomas.co.uk/amplify for more details.


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