#Socialmedia

Aquamarine Holds Harvest Festival for St Petrock's and Exeter Foodbank

Exeter-based media agency, Aquamarine Media, is holding a Harvest Festival at the Generator, to raise food donations and money for local charities, Exeter Foodbank and St Petrock’s.

The Harvest Festival is ongoing throughout October and a harvest basket is being filled with tins of food by local business people and Aquamarine team members at their Generator office at Exeter Quay.

The Bing accredited media agency that offers services in PPC (pay-per-click advertising), Content, and Social media, is also holding a ‘Bake-off’ style bake sale at 1pm on the 27th October at the...

Digital marketing specialist employs first apprentice

Authored by MiHi Digital
Posted: Thu, 10/01/2015 - 10:29am

A Cornish marketing specialist has welcomed its first apprentice after 20 months of successful growth.

MiHi Digital, which offers assistance on all aspects of online marketing including website design, social media, search engine optimisation and strategy, was set up by Mark Worden 20 months ago to support the burgeoning online potential of the Duchy’s businesses.

The company has worked with more than 100 organisations from across the UK and three other continents, which have a combined turnover in excess of £400-million. With an ever-growing client base, MiHi has now...

ARTS QUARTER TO HARNESS SOCIAL MEDIA

Event Date: 
29/09/2015 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Oystercatchers Cafe, Northumberland Place, Teignmouth

Using Facebook and Twitter to promote the newly branded Arts Quarter of Teignmouth centred around Northumberland Street is the focus for the September social media cafe.

The event is being held on Tuesday 29 September at The Oystercatchers Cafe from 5.30-7.30pm.

Cafe founder, Mandy Pearse, will be showing how local traders and organisations can harness the potential of facebook to promote not only their shop or venue but also market the thriving arts quarter.

She says:“We have an amazing set of creative businesses and arts organisations in this part of Teignmouth....

Devon Business Expo innovates business networking with the Krowd

Innovative local digital startup Krowdthink and thebestof Exeter are partnering to make the networking opportunity at the Devon Business Expo a fantastically enhanced digital experience for exhibitors and delegates.

The Krowd app is a new form of social network service for connecting people in places. It helps users discover more people with shared interests in a crowd and connect with them. In addition it provides a location-based instant-on locally connected chat forum, so exhibitors and delegates can engage in a digital discussion about what’s happening right here, right now....

Julia Bramble: "Social media is not a dark art"

Authored by AbiBram
Posted: Mon, 03/16/2015 - 9:21am

The use of social media is now a given for any business. Why? Because, with very few exceptions, our customers are having conversations on there and we have a huge opportunity to get involved too.

However, it doesn’t have to be complicated. Social media is just another form of communication, so we can use it however we want - for research, customer service, or positioning, for example, in addition to the more obvious goals of generating leads and enquiries. Successful social media marketing is, however, very different from traditional marketing as we are now generating interest by...

Adam Stone: Social media and your business

Authored by AbiBram
Posted: Fri, 03/13/2015 - 1:22pm

We live at a time where thoughts zip around the world at the speed of light. A cataclysmic event or a compromising photo is instantly witnessed by millions of people in the blink of an eye. In so many ways the internet, not even a concept just a few years ago (the worldwide web was 25 last year!) has changed our lives in immeasurable ways and, I like to think, for the good.

To many, social media services such as Twitter and Facebook ARE the internet with the amount of active users on a day by day basis counting in the hundreds of millions and growing. For a lot of people from my...