"Baby Its Cold Outside ......!!"

Despite some of our staff having to travel from West Yorkshire to get to work By Request has made it in every day which meant we were able to help a customer in distress.

A little Thanks Goes a Long Way

Hi Carl,

CTI appoint Head of SEO - Steve Wrigley

Having announced an impressive stream of new high-profile clients and a number of new recruits in 2009, we look well on our way to hitting our £1.5million target over the next 8 months and now have a team of 20 developers and 5 digital experts.
 
Our rapid expansion shows no signs of slowing down in 2010 as they have recently appointed their new Head of SEO, Steve Wrigley. This new recruit reflects CTI's intent to strengthen our partnership with existing agencies and to provide a cutting edge service that will benefit our partners on an ongoing basis.

Do not be afraid....try social media, consider Facebook

I have recently been using Facebook for personal use.

But I thought could it also be used for business - I didn't before.

There is a balancing act that could deter you as personal information might be unwelcome in a business setting.

Yet it is still worth investigating Facebook - why not go to my blog to learn more?

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA

If you are going to use social media this is how I think you'll get the best return.

I'd never tell any of my clients to be loud, derogatory to the competition or showy offey.

Except of course when it comes to social media.

Then it's vital.

You are blogging, Facebooking and Twittering in order to tell people about your brand.

The only problem is 100 million other brands are doing the same.

So you need to be a loud as a 2-year-old high on Fruit Shoot.

Relevant is a good idea too.

ONLY IDIOTS BELIEVE SOCIAL MEDIA WORKS

Our brand has a Facebook page, we Tweet and we are connected to half the universe on Linked In.

 So how come sales figures aren't up?

 People, welcome to the great social media scam.

 Every day 'gurus' preach the social media word to unsuspecting businesses, they then hand over their ludicrously large invoice and swiftly hightail it out of there before anyone notices that they have been conned.

 Here's the deal folks: social media is useless.

 It will not increase your company's profile or sales one bit.

Contractual obligation blog

Apparently as I won the referrals spot prize on Friday (a bottle of wine comes in really handy for a teetotaller) I am contractually obliged to blog, so here goes.

Nottingham/Leicester

Hello Fellow MBBCers

I'm travelling to Norfolk >> Kings Lynn next Weds 2/12/09

Anybody going over to Nottingham or Leicester Weds AM & we could be very green & I could cadge a lift,

for my onward journey to KL...!!!

Any help much appreciated...

Eric

www.business-yorkshire.co.uk

The 25th / 26th November I will be attending this Networking Event.

Loation is Doncaster Race Course...

See you there

Eric Appleby

Info@Insertyourcompanynamehere Tells People You Don't Care

No one likes to think they are inconsequential especially when they are talking to someone that they could be giving their hard earned money to.

But it happens all too often on the internet.

How many times have you sent an email to info@?I don't know about you but when I send an email to info or sales@ I picture it landing in some long-forgotten box that only gets checked by the work experienced kid once every six months.

Companies should be trying to build as many personal relationships with their customers as possible.