Essex Business Awards 2012

Delighted to say we are one of the 6 finalists in the New Company category at the Essex Business Awards being held tomorrow night at Charter Hall, Colchester. Given how young we are as a company its GREAT just to be nominated and even more so to be in the final six.

An evening of chilled champagne, excellent food and brilliant company can only help make this a really GREAT night for us and to all who are attending and nominated for the various categories.

Best of luck to all concerned. You can find out more about the Awards and the finalists by clicking the image below and information on how to join Great Deals Colchester by clicking on our logo.

Great Deals Colchester Blog November 2012

Topic: SEO and Facebook

Date : 06/111/12

The online environment is constantly evolving. Online marketers anticipate increasing the role of public, social networks, the need to develop websites dedicated to Smartphones and tablets and the emergence of visual search engines.

Online trade is changing with high speed each year, which makes the consumers to have high expectations. Adopting the latest technologies and trends can revive business and of course increase sales. It is clear that we are entering a new century in which the internet makes the rules.

Online marketing methods can be grouped in two categories: online advertising and search engine optimization.

Online advertising purpose is to generate traffic to choose a target market segment for our business in various ways through various methods:

1. Online advertising Pay Per Click or Cost Per Click
2. Campaigns through links or banners
3. Emails and Newsletters

Search engine optimization is one of the trends in online marketing. No doubt SE0 as marketing activity has the greatest benefit of all marketing activities that can engage a website owner. Quantities of traffic that search engines like Google can bring a site is amazing, especially when you consider a website with many applications.

In the virtual world a website don't exist that search engines and directories do not know him. Internet engine bots search new websites to index them. Directories are generally maintained manually by the webmaster. A campaign promoting a website must necessarily include the announcement site's presence on the Internet. Of course, it's necessary that the website is built by the SE0 rules so that when the search engines will find your site, index it and display it as above.

Many people are intimidated by the idea of spending money on Facebook ads. However, most entrepreneurs who use Facebook Ads are experiencing the difficulty of measuring results. How do you get more 'Like's'? How do you make the company to interact with fans on Facebook and what happens afterwards? In the following rows i will submit some effective strategies for increasing the number of 'Like's' and user engagement that can help you start a campaign to promote its own business:

1. Transform your status in an ad that offers a clear advantage for those who click. Include a call to action.
2. Reduce costs and increase conversion rates by targeting existing fans already. At first, consider a campaign