Posts Tagged ‘business’

Find it in Birmingham Launches Tomorrow! 12/05/2010

 

Officially launches on Thursday 13 May 2010!

It is a new Working Neighbourhood Fund/ Birmingham City Council project which aims to support the local small business community by making opportunities to supply the City Council, our suppliers and partner organisations more visibly.

When buying goods in future, Birmingham City Council Directorates will now be using this free web-based service to source goods and services that cannot be sourced from existing supplier contracts.

Businesses and suppliers can sign up and register for free for access to local contracts, support, networking events, seminars, and job opportunities, helping you to stay ahead, get noticed and more importantly win bigger and better contracts for your business.

Register at www.finditinbirmingham.com.

SEO? Bless you! 16/01/2009

I recently went on SEO training, for those who are sick of acronyms or are just curious, this stands for Search Engine Optimisation. It is a way to improve the volume and quality of traffic on the internet to your website by learning how to present your pages, and supporting web accessibility as a whole. It has a lot of similarities with online marketing, and the training will usually include overviews of how to improve your online presentation and audience engagement.
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Where there’s muck - there’s a blog 15/12/2008

I’m always looking for examples of how social media can support small businesses. I’ve raised the question before using the local builder as an example. Why on earth would the bloke who knocked a hole in my wall have a reason to use any kind of social media tool?

Well I found a partial answer to that in a video from Herefordshire firm, Wiggly Wigglers (amongst other things they sell worms for composting). Founder Heather Gorringe explains how a shift to social media over tradititional media helped cut her advertising costs without cutting her customer base.

 

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