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Last week in Marketing UK I read the following about the social media site Pinterest:

Pinterest is the fastest growing social media site in history. In the UK alone, from Sept 2011 to Sept 2012, it saw a 786% increase in visits from 902k to 7.98m. More and more brands -...

Why should you use Twitter?

A few months ago I wrote a blog on what kind of information you should and shouldn't be tweeting. In this edition of my blog I would like to tell you why you should be on...

Make Your WordPress Website Perform

In our previous blog we wrote about how easy it is to develop a website using a platform such as WordPress. What was known predominantly for blogging, it can also be used to make great websites. ...

Websites

When your website needs an update, do you do it yourself or do you have a website specialist doing it? A lot of businesses have to consult the website designer they used to create their website...

What is an Email Newsletter? Email newsletters are a brilliant way of keeping in contact with your previous and current clients. A newsletter is a written publication (by yourself or a paid writer) with a specific...

Clever Marketing – Genuinely Good for SEO at Last!

At Appletree we provide marketing support for our clients across many activities, from planning strategy to writing blogs and social media updates. Increasingly, we achieve great SEO results not because we are working to a strategy...

How Important is SEO?

What is SEO? I've mentioned SEO a lot in my blogs and thought I would write a blog about why it is so important. SEO, Search Engine Optimization, is a online marketing strategy of improving...

YouTube – A Really Effective Marketing Tool for SEO

YouTube is often cited as the second most use search engine behind Google. One of our previous YouTube blogs talked about why, as a form of social media it's a really effective marketing tool. Here's a...

Youtube. Why use it to grow your business?

The Finer Points of YouTube As soon as the word 'social media' pops up, I bet you automatically think Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+. However, one form of social media that is increasingly important to small...

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...