Posts Tagged ‘business profitability’

Is your website bringing you business? Well it should be!

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

According to Netcraft in November 2008 the total number of websites on the internet exceeded 182 million; However 88% of websites have no discernable traffic and only 10% of sites actually feature on search engines. What a complete waste of time, money and effort that was creating all those sites for no one to look at!

Do you know how much traffic comes through your site? Do you even know that you can check? The opportunity that the a well focused, well designed website presents to your business is phenomenal!

The good news is that it doesn’t have to cost hundreds of thousands of pounds either.

Of course you can get a template website produced for a thousand pounds, but does it reflect the calibre of your staff and the quality of your product or service? Does it put you ahead of your competition? Does it attract the right type of client for you? We have all had clients that we don’t want or need! In the sea of web design companies how can you sift through to ensure your web company is working for you?

Well you need to be asking them what they are doing for your business. Are they considering how your site can generate you new business? Do they even know what you do? Are they keeping a watchful eye on your competition to ensure you are not left behind? Are they regularly assessing your keywords and ensuring that you have a good page rank in Google? Are they constantly looking for ways in which you can drive new traffic to your site? Are they making sense of all the social media marketing business sites that are often free marketing tools to bring you new business? Can they teach you how to blog? Are they working with you to ensure you have an effective marketing calendar and a rock solid sales strategy going forward?

Is your website working as an extension of your sales team or actually being detrimental to your business? Does your web company care about your business? Does your web company thrive on your success as a business because your success is there success?

If they can’t answer these questions then why not give us a call and take part in our business surgery? We can offer you real business solutions that deliver results. It can take time but we set real time objectives for bringing business through short, medium and long term strategies…. Softly, softly catch a monkey!

Can you really afford for your web company not to be on top of their game?

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Posted in Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Web Design

1-2-1 Intune Search Engine Marketing Training for your Ecommerce Website

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

I’ve recently been discussing the subject of online business optimisation to improve profits with a good friend Brian Allmey. Brian helps businesses, aspiring entrepreneurs and ambitious managers to develop their business and themselves. On the subject of ecommerce, Brian suggested business owners ask themselves the following questions:

Is your webstore empty, or are people queueing to get in?

Do you have a market stall, or a heaving high street store?

Does everyone cheer when you make a sale, or are your ears drowned by ringing tills all day?

We both know what the correct answer should be to ensure your long term profitability. In the current economic climate your website should be a huge supportive arm to your long term business goals, reaching out, grabbing people’s attention and encouraging the measurable growth of your business.

Understanding the basics of search engine marketing can benefit every small business owner. When done correctly, search engine optimisation can be the most cost effective and most time efficient way to drive traffic and customers to your website; encouraging visitor interaction, contact and ultimately sales.

When you know the ways to get onto the front page of Google, you’ll be amazed at the difference it can make to your business. There are things that you can do straight away to help Google find you and index your content.

What you will learn with Intune Search Engine Marketing Training:

1. What Google is looking for
2. How you can optimise your own website
3. Terminology and acronyms
4. Truth and fiction
5. How you can drive traffic to your website
6. How you can get and retain Google’s attention
7. Tools you can start using immediately
8. Measuring your website’s results

Why you should take Intune Search Engine Marketing Training:

1. If your website is not on the first page of Google you have very little chance of being found
2. SEO is the cheapest way to market your business
3. SEO is within your ability
4. You can start getting results straight away
5. You will know what to write for your website
6. You will get a taste of how to use social media to your advantage

Intune Media are advocates of transferable skills, a registered learning provider and offer a 1-2-1 introductory training courses to help you understand what you can and can’t do yourself, where you should be focusing your attention to get the best results for your business and how to get your website noticed now and in the future. 90% of people in the UK use Google to find what they are looking for; enquire about our training to make sure that they can find your business. Increase your knowledge, increase your exposure and increase your profits. Contact jessica@intune-media.co.uk for a no-obligation online business health check.

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Posted in Ecommerce, Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation

launch of a ‘revolutionary’ social media analysis tool

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

The web is a wash with articles about social media; what is it, where it is and how it can be leveraged as a business tool. With all and sunndry jumping on the band wagon, I get the impression it’s all getting abit confusing for general business owners….here’s something worth reading - a rather telling post from B2B Marketing news which hints at what will come to pass with social marketing. To Gandalf for you? well here’s the whole no nonsense article for your contemplation. When you’ve read it, give us a call and we’ll explain what it means for you and your business:

Autonomy Corporation has announced the launch of a ‘revolutionary’ social media analysis tool which will allow companies to listen to the most important online conversations.

The web content management firm claim the new software ‘Autonomy Interwoven’ uses an Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) to automatically listen to social media content and analyse the dialogue.

Its creators claim it will be the first such tool to understand human sentiment, enabling marketers to act instantly.

An Autonomy spokesperson explained how the system “provides proven clustering, pattern matching techniques, and probabilistic modelling that treats words as symbols of meaning rather than simple data points, yielding a more contextual set of data for marketers to act upon.”

“The Web Content Management solution also provides powerful capabilities for engaging customers in a dialogue and enables marketers to instantly act upon the meaning and insights gathered by IDOL, to deliver compelling, targeted offers.”

Autonomy suggest that traditional keyword spotting solutions fail to truly understand specific meanings in user-generated content, as language is often more conversational and rife with slang and emotional undertones.

The company has used the same meaning based computing technology that is used by the world’s largest corporations and government institutions to create the system.

“In the past few years marketers have struggled to keep pace with the radical shifts taking place in the buyer landscape,” says Anthony Bettencourt, CEO of Autonomy Interwoven. “Social networks which by nature are dynamic, unstructured forms of information do not fit neatly into traditional, database driven analytics systems.” [Cited from B2B Marketing]

What does this mean for you? regardless of whether you are a techy, a marketeer or a business owner, information like this is gold dust in understanding where the next opportunities are to be had for differentiating yourself within an increasingly complex and competitive online market. One of our many strengths at Intune is in understanding the web from a business solutions standpoint and in helping our clients understand and capitalise on new and emerging relevant technologies and ideas. Contact jessica@intune-media.co.uk for a no-obligatory business consultation.

Intune Media. The intelligent, business focused, dedicated and forward thinking web partner for your business needs now and in the future.

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Posted in Digital Strategy, Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation

do you have a cost-effective strategy to increase your business profits?

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Doing business in the UK is expensive. Organisations of every size are feeling the squeeze on profitability.

Making sure you don’t waste money by paying more than you need to for your essential business overheads is the quickest and most direct way to mitigate this and put profit back onto your bottom line. However, unless you have in-house specialists, a strategy and systems, how can you achieve this without diverting existing resources away from your core business and adding to the overall cost of your overheads?

The answer is to work with an Intune Media strategic partner to bring independent advice, unparalleled market knowledge and specialist expertise into your organisation as an additional management resource. Should you require systems implementation or development, the Intune team are at hand to take down your requirements and meet your long term goals.

Contact Intune for systems and advice to keep track and improve your long term business profitability.

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Posted in Digital Strategy