As a jeweller, pressures come in all shapes and sizes. Sourcing raw materials can be difficult, supply chain issues ever present as well as finding the right staff. All of these factors can impact how your business performs and operates. However, the fundamental measure of your success not only comes from how well you can…
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How do you choose the best channels for your content?
In the first part of our mini series, we talked about creating an awesome content marketing strategy in 2022. In this article, we are going to delve deeper to give you a better understanding of what marketing channels are best suited for your content and how you can choose them. Before you get started though,…
Create an Awesome Content Marketing Strategy in 2022
Watch Your Engagement Rates Soar Communication is key to being understood, right?! How often have we made instant assumptions, jumped to conclusions or made a judgement based on what we have heard, read or seen? We know this happens frequently in our personal lives but in a world where information is immediate and consumption rates…
Where can I find handcrafted gifts made in Ireland?
There is no doubt that handcrafted goods are sentimental while buying local is great for our communties. Not only that but those sourced locally are very eco friendly and each one makes the whole gift giving experience very special while recognising the work of the maker. We have an amazing selection of handcrafted gifts made…
How to Use Social Media for Small Businesses
Social media is something we are all very much familiar with. It has become a means that we can connect with family and friends. It is also an important marketing tool that has helped to change the way that your small business can reach and communicate with your customers. Social media has come a long…
Real Time Marketing? How to Build Your Strategy.
It can be thought of as an almost instantaneous way for marketers to react and respond to events, trends, conversations or activities. The purpose of real time marketing is to capture the moments when customers are particularly engaged with a product or service (either yours or someone else’s) and connect with them there and then. This…
Email Marketing: Is it Still Effective?
Email marketing has a history spanning over 20 years. Since that time lots of other marketing channels have emerged but have they successfully replaced email as an effective communications tool or does it still have a place? Let’s examine the evidence to find out. Email Trends and Behaviour Thankfully because emails were introduced some time…
6 Simple Steps to Create a Digital Marketing Plan [including Infographic]
Digital Marketing, What is it? Unless you have been living under a rock (literally), it’s impossible not to have some awareness regarding online or digital marketing. The frontiers that this area of expertise has surpassed in more recent times has been incredible. But what does it imply in terms of enhancing your commercial activity and…
Purchasing Trends: How To Encourage Your Consumers To Continue Buying Local
Consumer purchasing behaviour, as we knew it, changed dramatically during 2020 and 2021. One particular aspect of this, for SMEs, was the rate at which online shopping accelerated as well as a renewed focus on buying local. With the loss of physical shops and spaces, customers quickly turned to the digital world to satisfy this need. …
How Important is Marketing, in a Crisis?
The short answer is…more than ever! It goes without saying though that any emergency situation brings with it challenges and hardships therefore the way that you market also has to change. Sensitivity is absolutely critical and your marketing efforts should be very sympathetic to the needs of your consumers. There is justification however to continue…
12 Marketing Strategies to Implement on a Budget
With the current global health crisis, new challenges are pushing businesses to the limit. Normal working practices have changed dramatically overnight to adopt, where possible, a remote way of working. For others, the impact has been even more drastic with many having to shut their doors and remove the threat posed by social contact. It…