What’s the Difference between Sales and Marketing?
I often get asked this question and have heard a number of different answers. Salesmen will tell you that you can do sales without marketing - and that the latter is probably just a waste of...
Content is King!
In my quest to tell the world about content marketing, I recently came across a useful chart which shows just how good it is (and that it's not just me obsessing about it!) This...
Twitter. It?s so much more than a plug for your website.
As the newly appointed social media champion for Appletree ? he says slightly smug ? I came across something that I really wanted to address in my latest blog. Last week I spent a lot of...
How to Create an Effective Keyword List
A common theme of our blogs on marketing is keywords. Thankfully they are no longer mis-used by some and ?stuffed? on web pages to achieve high search engine rankings. This means that it?s even more important...
Using Social Media in your Online Marketing Plan
With the rapid evolution of technology, information is flowing through a massive variety of media. In this day and age businesses and individuals are communicating more and more through social media, so the question is, have...
Identifying Keywords for your Content
An interesting aspect of the work Appletree does for many clients is keyword research and recommendations. In a previous blog I advised careful use of keywords in your website and blog copy, in order to improve organic...
Social Media Integration – that?s what you need!
Changing technology has had a significant impact on marketing in the last few years, in terms of its capabilities, but also in the way that people use it. For example, according to the B2B Content Marketing:...
Good Websites really are Written for Customers, not Search Engines
Good website copy writing has never been about keyword stuffing. During April, Google announced its latest updates: Penguin and Panda. These updates are designed to allow Google to more easily identify those sites which have been...
Don?t let Google Updates affect your Rankings
During April 2012 Google rolled out its latest updates, Penguin and Panda. The objective of the updates is generally to repel those website which are written primarily to score highly in Google rankings. Those sites which...
Marketing Your Blog Part 2
In part 1 of Marketing Your Blog we considered in brief a summary of the most effective ways to market your blog. In Part 2, we?ll look at some of these ways in more detail, and...
