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4 Considerations for your Small Business Social Media Marketing Strategy

BlueFlameDesign — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:58:35 +0000

If you’re having a tough time figuring out how to implement and use social media for your business, you’re not alone. Even those who use social media regularly are forced to constantly adapt as Facebook, Twitter and the like roll out changes several times a year and new marketing arenas spring up left and right. We’ve seen Facebook roll out its Timeline feature, Twitter enhance its brand pages, Google+ adapt its Business Branded Pages and

5 Essential Print Marketing Tips for your Business

BlueFlameDesign — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:42:14 +0000

One of the best and worst traits of print media is its inherent flexibility: your print design is only limited by your creativity. So before you set out to design a campaign, we’ve set out a series of print marketing tips to ensure your advertising and marketing literature does what it’s supposed to do. TOP 5 PRINT MARKETING TIPS FOR YOUR BUSINESS Tip #1 Simplicity is key, both visually and in your wording;

Five Ways to use Social Media to help Boost your Customer Service

BlueFlameDesign — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:29:24 +0000

Social media can be a very powerful business tool when harnessed correctly. So many uses. So many ways to help your small business with its marketing and external communications. One of its many uses, is that social media marketing can be a great way to boost to your company customer service. Whether you handle your customers yourself, or you have an assistant or team member overseeing this for you, social media is an important

Build a more interesting Business Brand through Social Media

BlueFlameDesign — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:07:38 +0000

Do you worry about whether your business brand is interesting enough to sustain a social media presence? There is good news if you answered ‘YES’ as it’s exactly the right emotion to ensure that your brand is, or does, become interesting. Quite simply not worrying about your brand through social media can be bad for your business. A solid dose of worrying can be a good thing and the perfect medicine to improve your brand’s

9 Tips for Branding your Small Business

BlueFlameDesign — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:39:12 +0000

Branding is one of the most important aspects of starting and building a small business. Approached correctly, branding will help define a business as a credible entity in its target market and associate the business with its products or services. Here are 9 Top Tips for successfully branding your small business. 1. KEEP THINGS SIMPLE A good slogan is a powerful tool, but it should be kept short in order to make the biggest impact.

Give your small business that ‘Business Branding Appeal’

BlueFlameDesign — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:37:50 +0000

For your business to be successful you have to be able to resonate with your client base and nurture relationships. Developing and nurturing relationships with your customers is a definite ‘must’ and one of the smartest moves you could make as a business owner. Remember relationships do not happen overnight and should be cultivated over a period of time, building up trust, recognition and dependability. The art and science of developing a relationship between your

15 Point Inspection Checklist for your Business Marketing and Advertising

BlueFlameDesign — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:34:50 +0000

The primary function for your business marketing efforts is to illicit a positive response from your target audience. So what happens when you channel money into an advertising and marketing campaign that’s met with little or no results? Hopefully our Free 15 point Business Marketing Inspection Checklist may help. 1: Being too creative On occasion, advertisers become too ‘cute and clever’ when it comes to marketing. It’s OK to jump on the seasonal band wagon

4 Tips to Improve Your Business Marketing

BlueFlameDesign — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:58:06 +0000

Marketing for your small business requires a good deal of creativity, especially if you want to avoid wasting precious money on things that don’t work for you. No matter what type of marketing you choose for your business, there are some key concepts to keep in mind. For example, focus on what your customers want and how you can help them, and work on marketing yourself instead of your product or service. With these things

A Colourful Combination: BlueFlameDesign are appointed to design new website for Sussex Green Printers, Foundry Press

BlueFlameDesign — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:51:40 +0000

With a reputation of being the award winning, high quality, full service, green printers of Sussex, Foundry Press needed the creative flair, experience and knowledge of a local design agency, with a reputation to match, to assist in designing and developing their new company website. Local design and branding agency, BlueFlameDesign, were undoubtedly the perfect choice. A meeting between Foundry Press Director, Bruce Phillips, and BlueFlameDesign owner, Matt Bennett, revealed that the brief Foundry Press

Leading Sussex Independent Financial Advisers turn to BlueFlameDesign for the right Branding and Print Marketing advice

BlueFlameDesign — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:30:15 +0000

Ashley Law Mid Sussex are Independent Financial Advisers who are widely regarded as being one of the leading ethical and independent financial advisers, based in the heart of Sussex, providing services to both individual and business clients in protecting, maintaining and increasing their wealth. With an office based in Bolney, near to Haywards Heath, the practice is run by married business owners and independent financial advisers, Tracey Evans and Derek Evans. Ashley Law Mid Sussex