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Zeebox, could it be a good thing for business!

Posted on May 4th, 2012 by sshepherd

Creative Stream - blog, general, Marketing, Social Media, Tech Blog

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Here’s a little nugget for you,

I have been playing around with Apps lately after acquiring some lovely gadgetry and I came across Zeebox. I have seen the TV adverts with the big man as the TV and the little man as Zeebox and that it is designed to let you interact with your favourite tv shows via social media.

Well what I didn’t expect was that this app would in fact bump up my followers on twitter quite considerably, so starting to receive up to around 20 new followers a week just from simply making comments on my favourite TV shows.

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Business owner or entrepreneur…is there a difference?

Posted on April 16th, 2012 by sshepherd

brand design, Creative Stream - blog, general, New Business

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My first blog in months! and I thought it was only right to write about what has been keeping me away from updating my content for so long.

Well it has now been a year since I created my business “Sorbrook” and things have gone from strength to strength though now I am starting to be even more creative in what I am doing and having to shift priorities and ways that I do business.
My client base has matured over the last year and the people I now do business with are more than just business acquaintances, I feel they are more like a business family.

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The Search Ranking Experiment – My Findings

Posted on February 18th, 2012 by sshepherd

Creative Stream - blog, general, Marketing, Social Media, Tech Blog, web design

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The start of this experiment was initiated on Wednesday January 18th 2012 and was simply to create a presence in the name of “hatstand aardvark biscuit-barrel” on the web to see who could achieve the top spot in search engine rankings within a month.

So where do we start?

I am currently using WordPress as my website so creating new pages is a breeze, well rather than a page I created a post within my blog as these tend to get google juice quite quickly.

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Hatstand Aardvark Biscuit-Barrel …The Hatstand Strikes Back!

Posted on February 17th, 2012 by sshepherd

Creative Stream - blog, general, Marketing, Social Media, Tech Blog, web design

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So we are now coming to the end of our quest to hit the top spot within search engines to win the prize of all prizes, the coverted “Eswoosh” mug of coffee.

So What have we learnt?, well that SEO is not that difficult if you have a search such as “Hatstand Aardvark Biscuit-Barrel” and if you have some sort of knowledge in creating websites. Once the experiment has been completed I shall publish my findings for everyone to see and hopefully some of you may find it helpful.

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What to avoid when advertising your brand with a flyer

Posted on February 16th, 2012 by sshepherd

brand design, Creative Stream - blog, design for print, Marketing, New Business

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Everyone wants to put across the right impression when promoting their business, but there are some simple things which need to be taken into account to ensure your brand looks professional.

Let’s take a basic flyer for our example for now.

It’s all very well trying to stand out from the crowd but certain things on your flyer need to be avoided.

5 things not to do:

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Pinterest…The next big thing for 2012

Posted on February 9th, 2012 by sshepherd

Creative Stream - blog, general, Marketing, Social Media, Tech Blog

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Well according to some this has been around since 2006 and has had a steady following until early last year when interest (or Pinterest) for the site started to explode and by early this year Pinterest was looking down the barrel of over 10 million unique visitors in US. To read more information about this follow the link below:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/07/pinterest-monthly-uniques/

Now this is breaking records for the speed that an individual site has broken the 10 million mark but what is it all about?

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When Good Brand Marketing Sways Your Choice

Posted on February 3rd, 2012 by sshepherd

brand design, Creative Stream - blog, Marketing

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Here’s a funny one for you.. I just purchased car breakdown cover as I know in the coming months I may need to make a few long journeys. Now I didn’t go to google and type in Breakdown Recovery, instead I just typed “The AA”.

So Why is that? I asked myself, well I know I must have seen at least 3 adverts on the TV in the last few days and I have seen a number of their vans around in this cold weather and I seem to remember I had an email from them as I had been looking into Car Insurance.

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Google Apps… whats so great about that?

Posted on January 26th, 2012 by sshepherd

Creative Stream - blog, general, Marketing, New Business, Tech Blog, web design

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I started looking at Google Apps a few Months ago when a client of mine was raving about it and how it has so much for so little money, or in some cases for FREE.

So whats on offer?

We all should know of the FREE offerings from Google such as Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs, now think of them all integrated together and under your domain name and all for… FREE!… Pretty cool eh!

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