Is your business fit for the 21st century?

Is your business fit for the 21st century?

Our friends at Handpicked Society believe that business should help to solve the worlds problems, and have a lasting positive impact on society, the economy and the planet and that "Responsible business is good business". Their recent research shows that there are 4...

80% of UK SMEs confident they will recover from Covid despite gloomy economic forecast

80% of UK SMEs confident they will recover from Covid despite gloomy economic forecast

Some light amongst all the gloom according to research from digital bank Starling and the Great British Entrepreneur Awards (GBEA), as a survey reports that 80% of UK SMEs are confident they will recover from Covid despite gloomy economic forecast. The survey of more...

Coronavirus: Millions for small business ‘sitting in council accounts’

Coronavirus: Millions for small business ‘sitting in council accounts’

According to a BBC report on Friday Aug 8th 2020 and the Federation of Small Businesses, there are millions of pounds earmarked for supporting small businesses on March 17th still "sitting in council accounts". Are you eligible to claim? Lump sums of £10,000, through...

£20 million in new grants to boost recovery of  SMEs (you can use these for marketing services!!)

£20 million in new grants to boost recovery of SMEs (you can use these for marketing services!!)

Thousands of smaller businesses in England are set to benefit from £20 million of new government funding to help them recover from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government has today (30 July 2020) announced. Small...

Major Free Charity Resource Charity Excellence Upgrades In Response To Deepening Crisis

Major Free Charity Resource Charity Excellence Upgrades In Response To Deepening Crisis

Charities have struggled more than most organisations during the Covid-19 crisis. Pro Bono Economics estimates that the funding gap will be £10 billion over the next 6 months and some large charities have already announced significant redundancies.  In a recent DSC...

The Most Photographed Brands of 2020 to date

The Most Photographed Brands of 2020 to date

Brandwatch recently analyzed - or analysed if you're in the UK 🙂 - 40 million images containing logos, to find the most photographed brands to date in 2020. The power of images has been well documented for decades but, with the democratisation of photography...

Advertiser Boycotts and The Trials of Facebook – Latest update June 29th 2020

Advertiser Boycotts and The Trials of Facebook – Latest update June 29th 2020

This week's blog comes with thanks to our friends at The Cog Blog.  As they put it: "The competition to be number one in the spreader-of-hate-and-discrimination stakes is intense. Twitter seemed to have it pretty well sewn up going into the final stages but a late run...

Customer Service Areas Companies Need to Watch to Avoid Losing Business.

Customer Service Areas Companies Need to Watch to Avoid Losing Business.

Today, as more and more businesses get to open their doors here in the UK after a long 3 months, we're looking at the customer service areas companies need to watch to avoid losing business, based on research by Brandwatch who surveyed 4,092 adults from Australia,...

Good Marketing Spend Management – a key skill amid the Covid-19 downturn

Good Marketing Spend Management – a key skill amid the Covid-19 downturn

Read a timely article about marketing spend management today in Marketing Tech News. Done well, spend management can free up marketing budget and serve both as a foundation to weather a storm and a catalyst for future growth. Effective spend management enables agile...

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