LinkedIn community advice : show yourself

05/11/11: Millions of people join LinkedIn but only a few step up and say hello, I’m here... what’s your take on this, that or the other? If you ask an interesting question then people will click on your profile to find out more... and this opens the door for opportunity to walk in.. Read More...

Promote our LinkedIn event & we'll give your business a BIG push

28/05/11: It makes good sense for us to motivate some of our readers to share our event with their people. LinkedIn has a share widget and it would be nice to see the number of shares climb higher than it is right now, at 3 ;). Read More...

What are top tweets really Twitter? #proudtobebritish

29/04/11: Today I was very pleased to see #proudtobebritish trending on Twitter. Trending means that lots of people are using the phrase in their tweets, so many that the phrase achieves a top 10 listing. At the time of writing #proudtobebritish is in top spot... the actual top spot taken by a sponsor... who could that be?**. Read More...

Twitter is for sharing

22/04/11: Twitter is for sharing. It allows you to share what is on your mind by sending your message out to the world for others to tune in via various online channels.. Read More...

Sales people more effective than social media

15/04/11: A recent poll conducted on LinkedIn, the largest quality business networking site for the English speaking world, shows that most new business is generated by sales people knocking on doors. Our research showed that 37% of new business generated in the last 3 months by our respondents was created by good old fashioned salesmanship.. Read More...

Short is sweet for email titles

13/04/11: Short is sweet for email titles. An email network firm has found that emails with shorter titles stand a better chance of being opened. . Read More...

Preserving old web page SEO rankings

12/04/11: I asked Barry about the old web page SEO rankings and how we keep them. We’ve spent years building up traffic and don’t want to miss potential opportunities that might be coming our way. . Read More...

The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations

11/04/11: The Regulations, Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 2426, were laid before Parliament on 18 September 2003. The final text of the Regulations is available on the HMSO Website. The Regulations have a coming into force date of 11 December 2003.. Read More...

Websites that Shine from LiaiseOnline

07/04/11: This evening we launched our brand spanking new website, LiaiseOnline Limited has been hand coded by our resident web design expert Mr Barry Zimmerman. Hanif Khan of Video Shoot Productions has produced a series of fresh videos that are in the process of being uploaded. The home page and half a dozen others are in situ and ready for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy.... Read More...

Should online communities be FREE?

13/03/11: My eye caught another poll which asked “Who will leave Linkedin if they go to a paid subscription site?” which had a massive 18,000 votes.. Read More...

Email marketing strategy for 2011

20/12/10: Looking at the search strings that brought traffic to LiaiseOnline in January 2010, email titles appears to be the top search with many also interested in the best time to send emails.. Read More...

Christmas Email Greetings Card

01/12/10: Personalised Christmas cards, E Christmas cards, Christmas e cards, email Christmas cards. E cards Christmas, e-mail Christmas cards, Christmas emails. Read More...

Google analytics are not just for Christmas

30/11/10: I've just done a search on Google Analytics to to see who found our website yesterday using Christmas or Xmas and look what popped up.. Read More...

2020 ONE DAY ONLY offers

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Stop giving away your Intellectual Property

21/10/10: So many people give their knowledge away on the Internet and we then wonder why the economy is in free fall. Someone needs to take a stand for consultancy by charging for documents and encouraging others to do the same.. Read More...

FREE social media event near London

16/10/10: If you'd like to understand this social media stuff a bit better than you do today then please book your place for FREE at our next event at the Crowne Plaza in Marlow on the 18th November 2010.. Read More...

Building an email marketing database

04/10/10: Many comanies claim to have big lists but when you drill down they only have a 5% opening rate... a complete waste of everyone's time and resources. Two months ago we cleaned out lists, took out all those who had not opened on in the last 15 emails, the databases dropped in volume but the opening rates became 25-30%. That feels so much better and worthy of our energy!. Read More...

New look BinB LinkedIn Group

27/06/10: The BinB LinkedIn Group has a brand new look and it’s heading down the route of all good interactive sites, the page you’re on gives you what you need front and centre.. Read More...

Changing with the social media times

07/05/10: There is nothing quite as sure as change ... everything sure moves fast so that means ... we have to!. Read More...

Social Media Workshops in Berkshire

26/03/10: I found myself having a loud music competition at the traffic lights this morning … dropped the nipper off at school, got into the left hand lane, in the right some oik blasting out some noise in his VW Golf … Chris Evans had just put on "Needles & Pins" and I was singing away, rolled down the window, turned up the vol and told yon oik, “Morning, need some proper music my good man! LISTEN!!”. Read More...

Lunch in a virtual world !

24/03/10: Real lunch on the real patio in this virtual world! It was great to sit out today on the patio, enjoying my beans on toast as the sun’s rays warmed my spirit … marvellous.. Read More...

SocialGo affiliate programme - should you join?

13/03/10: SocialGo affiliate programme gets thumbs down from Jon Davey, Social Media Director at Business in Berkshire. My experience of affiliate programmes has been far from impressive. Each one has let me down and left me feeling there is no point in wasting your enegy joining the various affiliate schemes that are on offer.. Read More...

Become a thought leader in YOUR market

15/02/10: As this video illustrates it is not difficult to become a thought leader in your market place you just need to keep telling people you are THE thought leader for your market and do you know what … you will become THE THOUGHT LEADER !. Read More...

How to Write Email Newsletter

01/06/08: Before you sit down to write the copy for your next email newsletter, consider how you can make your email copy irresistible to the reader. As a first step, make sure you’re clear about who your target audience is and what specific needs you are addressing.. Read More...

Managed email marketing campaigns

14/01/10: Have you been thinking about running an email marketing campaign but feel unsure how to get started? Put LiaiseOnline to the test ... we’ve been running email campaigns since 2001 and today we don’t just send out the emails, we can also offer recipient follow up and manage your campaigns through to a successful conclusion.. Read More...

Optimise your email marketing with Triggers

11/01/10: Email triggers take your email marketing to the next level, ensuring the 50 people who clicked are identified and individual emails despatched to your sales people directly or to a single person who then distributes the email triggers to the appropriate sales person who can then follow up with the recipient and find out their actual level of interest in your products & services.. Read More...

FREE Blog with RSS News Feed

06/01/10: Business Leads UK is built using the latest technology widgets and so allows for an RSS News Feed. This means that others can tap into your news feed and use it as a source of information or to add content to pages of their website.. Read More...

Email Template Creation December Special Offer

10/12/09: To spread a little Christmas cheer we have come up with a email template creation December Special Offer. We have been putting email templates together for years ... since 2001. Read More...

Working with different Social Media

27/11/09: A Social Media Director needs to gain experience of a variety of different social media networks as they require different skills sets to direct and manage.. Read More...

User generated media is killing our culture and the economy

18/11/09: Yesterday evening on BBC 3’s “It’s Only a Theory” programme Andrew Keen, an internet entrepreneur who found Audio Cafe in 1996 offered up the theory that “User generated media is killing our culture and the economy”. It’s Only a Theory – Episode 7. Read More...

Twitter readers 5% as attentive as Google searchers

28/10/09: Reviewing the Google stats of our new Business Leads UK website makes for very interesting reading: • The average visitor spent 6 minutes 30 seconds looking at 5 pages of BLUK • With Twitter readers being less than 10% as attentive • Google provided above average readers with twice the attention span of the average visitor. Read More...

First Twitter enquiry not a follower but a listener

13/10/09: This morning I received my very first Twitter enquiry and it wasn’t form one of the hundreds who asked me to follow them but from someone who was filtering the Tweets !. Read More...

Your Personalised Company e Christmas Card

01/10/09: Two Windsor Rotarians, Denis Blandford & Jon Davey, award winning online marketeer, are teaming up to bring you your very own PERSONALISED e Christmas card. P.S. For an additional fee we can arrange printing of your e-card as a proper Christmas Card... P.P.S. And for a realistic donation (£50 plus) we’ll present you with a framed original of the actual artwork for your long term viewing pleasure.... Read More...

Making REAL contact with your business network

28/08/09: Today we need to make the maximum use of the tools we have available to make contact with your business network. Ultimately this will require REAL conversations in REAL time! In 2001 when we first launched our email marketing service, if we had followed up within a few minutes then people would have been freaked out by the invasion of privacy. They were not used to emails, never mind them being tracked!. Read More...

X Factor is big hope for ITV revenues

23/08/09: X Factor is big hope for ITV revenues. ITV lost a ton of money on the Friends Reunited deal and TV advertising revenues have dropped hugely. ITV has sold Friends Reunited for £25m, despite having agreed to pay a total of £175m for it in 2005.. Read More...

Consultative selling with email marketing

19/08/09: Taking a consultative selling approach to email marketing is likely to pay more dividends than the blanket bomb approach that many seem to adopt. Earlier today I was in a pitch to a client talking about their whole online marketing mission. It had started as an email marketing enquiry, the prospect finding me via an online search for email marketing and looking to do business locally.. Read More...

Key Phrase Online Internet Marketing Strategy

06/08/09: Key phrase online Internet marketing strategists LiaiseOnline have been around the Internet since the last century! Recent assessment of the six main key phrases being used on the LiaiseOnline website found all six on page 1 of Google, five of the key phrases in either the 1st or 2nd spot! Yahoo & Bing delivering 4 of the 6 within the first 3 pages of the search. All engines presenting digital marketing windsor in the No 1 spot!!!. Read More...

Small business web site design

30/06/09: LiaiseOnline have been involved in small business web site design since the turn of the century. We have built hundreds of business websites and in this era of FREE >>> FREE >>> FREE we have decided to join the party.. Read More...

Do you need the best online marketing tool in the UK?

11/06/09: Last night I was presenting our Online Marketing Magic evening show on MarlowFM87.8 and my co presenter, Jean Wolfe, suggested we needed to “create the desire to buy and give it a try” or something similarly brilliant and recommended we limit the number of free micro sites to get the business men and women of Berkshire wiggling!! So we have heeded her advice.... Read More...

Winners of the European Elections

08/06/09: The Business in Berkshire website had an extra 1000 visitors last Thursday 4th June 2009. The top search string of 1074 currently on the BinB site is who to vote for - with 73 searches, with Derby runners in 3rd spot with 39 people searching for more race information!. Read More...

Quality email marketing services

17/05/09: Most things when they are brand new achieve a high interest factor. When we first started pushing out email campaigns to the world it was a brand new technology, we were probably the first company in Berkshire to offer email marketing services. A previous life in sales meant that our MD understood the value of emails sent, opened and CLICKED THROUGH meant that sales calls could be highly focussed the next day.. Read More...

Replying Promptly to Business Email

01/05/09: Businesses that do not respond quickly to email requests run a serious risk of losing business to their competitors according to a recent survey by web hosting company Fasthosts. . Read More...

Top 10 Email Marketing Tips

30/04/09: Effective email marketing can reap amazing results for your business. How else could you communicate with so many potential customers from your target audience in one single operation? How else could you send out vital information in minutes? As always, there are some basic rules to follow in order to maximize the success of your email newsletters. Here’s our Top 10…. Read More...

Internet Marketing Packages

09/04/09: Internet marketing packages from LiaiseOnline Limited. We focus on business lead generation in the shape of email marketing, content management systems and the managment of your social networks. LiaiseOnlie brings you Business Lead Generation in the form of:. Read More...

How to Write Email Newsletter Copy

29/03/09: Before you sit down to write the copy for your next email newsletter, consider how you can make your email copy irresistible to the reader. As a first step, make sure you’re clear about who your target audience is and what specific needs you are addressing. . Read More...

Campaign email marketing solution

26/02/09: So many people call us up looking for an email marketing campaign solution. What they may ask for is a cheap blanket bombing email campaign but what they really need is to slow down and give it some thought and allow us to manage a well planned email marketing campaign.. Read More...

Search engine friendly websites + email marketing = ?

26/01/09: Search engine friendly websites plus email marketing equal sales! We launched our email marketing service back on 2001 after we’d been asked by a marketing agency to run an email marketing campaign for a national charity. Initially we used a standard html template which was sent out by the charity using their email in house system. This solution meant we had no tracking and so didn’t know if our email got through or if the recipients had clicked through for more information.. Read More...

Search engine friendly websites plus email marketing equal sales

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Email promotion and internet marketing service

19/01/09: A Penny an email! Review our Silver Bullet email promotion and internet marketing service. Business to business email marketing services company LiaiseOnline Limited bring you a targeted email promotion and internet marketing service second to none!. Read More...

Over 1,000,000 of our web pages visited in 2008

12/01/09: Introducing LiaiseOnline Limited who had over 1,000,000 visitors to their various web sites in 2008. Jonathan Davey, MD of LiaiseOnline Limited gives a timeline on the evolution of an online marketing company moving into its 10th year.. Read More...