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We're always researching techniques, technologies, materials and approaches. It keeps us motivated and informed and allows us to demonstrate and recommend best practices and strategy for our clients.


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Hotel Online Marketing Strategies

Marketing plays an important role in every business, but especially for hotels. Hotels are unlike other businesses in the sense that they have to use some slightly different strategies in terms of marketing and promotion. It is very much a word of mouth phenomenon, but there are a number of hotel online marketing strategies that [...]

Online Marketing in 2012

Many businesses benefit from online marketing these days. This innovation has allowed them to go beyond the traditional marketing strategies. Online marketers are opportunity seekers who do not stop looking for more doors to open in the future online world.

It is important that an individual or a company anticipates their position in the Internet [...]

Google Demands Content – Google Panda

The state of the Internet has changed. Google has acquired so much power through their domination as a search engine that when they make a change, entire businesses can crumble. We can see a stunning and ongoing example of that in the form of Google’s Panda string of updates.
The Best Intentions
Google has the best in [...]

Combining Social Media Marketing with Traditional Online Marketing

There are numerous strategies available to online marketers, with varying degrees of effectiveness. At one extreme are the “bare bones business” sites which may be no more than an online catalogue. If the company has a blog, the posts read like a series of commercials. Communication with the reader takes the form of a sales [...]

Successful Internet & Online Marketing

A website is the base for any online marketing campaign strategy. It is usually best to have a website professionally constructed, but this can often cost hundreds and sometimes even thousands of dollars. Many small business owners and entrepreneurs choose to create their own websites and many software programs to help you are available for [...]

Niche Luxury Hotel Marketing Online

Online marketing for luxury hotels is a niche area where marketing companies must understand the clients who use these hotels.
The marketer’s goal, of course, is to increase occupancy and spending by the luxury hotel guests. These goals for the client can be achieved by using various tools in the marketer’s tool box, including creative writing, [...]

Rainbows at Desford Hall

I’m a huge, huge fan of rainbows, so when Tim caught an unusual reflection upon his monitor and immediately expressed his surprise at the arch of colour behind him we were all pretty impressed, not just at how vivid the colours were, but how close it was.

Taken by Jason Blake, Standout on 15th December 2011
I [...]

Little Chef Brand Re-think

Charlie the chef is back smaller, slimmer and more socially appealing than ever before!
Wonderfully British… LC has undergone a brand realignment which is friendly, approachable and versatile in its approach. I love the versatility of the new brand with contrasting typefaces, sizes and an array of colours. In fact it works in a similar [...]

Packaging Design: Your Number One Weapon in Beating the Competition

When it comes to a product or service, consumers are influenced by all sorts of small details. For instance, some customers are influenced by how you sell things to them, whether it be online or in stores. Some are more influenced by advertising, whether it be on the radio or on TV. Some consumers are [...]

Google Attempts to Get “One Up” on Facebook

In an attempt to rival the increasing popularity of Facebook’s like function, Google has come up with it’s own answer in the form of “plus one”.