People read email, and the clearer and better your email is, the more people will read it. How often should I email? Minimum? Once a week. Once a week? Won’t I annoy people? If you email self-promotional bollox? Yes you will. If your email is something that is not relevant, weird, poorly written, hard to […]
The no-nonsense Marketing tips during a pandemic.
COVID has shaken up the world like nothing in recent memory. This is especially true for businesses and freelancers. We’ve all learned some hard lessons and had to admit that our old ways of thinking (like trying to plan 12 months ahead of time) are no longer going to work for us. I sat down […]
How To Get Going with the 12-Week Year Plan.
Planning Your Business 12 Weeks at a Time With the summer months approaching Christmas is probably the furthest thing from most people’s minds. If you are hoping to build your current coworking space, or start a new one, now is the time to start looking towards the end of the year so 2021 can be […]
How To Market Your Coworking Space: The Simple Way.
I bet you think marketing is hard, I do. For over a decade I’ve been trying to figure out marketing, both mine and other peoples. Everyone seems to be doing better than me, is ahead of the curve, on the ball and whatever else. They’re more immediate on Instagram, terrific on twitter, fancy on Facebook […]
How to avoid being caught in the Email Newsletter void.
Another email newsletter??? Have you ever said that to yourself when you received one of those? You know, you subscribed to one of those cause you were really into the product they’re selling. You really want to know what they have to say, what’s new with them. And then you kind of lost interest in […]
Email Marketing in A Social Media World – a simple guide.
“If Social Media is the cocktail party, then email marketing is the ‘meet up for coffee’. The original 1 to 1 channel.” -Erik Harbison You would’ve thought that in a world of social media, email marketing would be on the bottom of the tier of effective marketing strategy. How come even the big and established […]
How To Market Your Coworking Space In A Coronavirus World
OMG, who the hell is selling in the Coronavirus downturn? Well, hopefully, a lot of people as we need to keep the economy going. Which is completely different just profiteering from it and ambulance-chasing. marketing I’ve been keeping a keen eye on how people are dealing with marketing and communication, the language in use and online […]
FFS Don’t Stop Marketing! And how to do that NOW!
Have your feet even touched the floor this week? The air surrounding us is bleak with uncertainty and everything seems to be in a standstill. And ‘homeschooling’ and ‘remote work’ has left the realm of progressive parents and digital nomads to become the new normal. And it seems that people treat contacting the Corona Virus […]
How To Gear Up Your Business Best In The Covirus Shut Down.
Just because the World is shutting down, it does not mean your business has to. Hard as it may seem right at this moment in time, there is plenty of good work to be done in the downtime, so you can come back stronger than ever. Are you on Linkedin? Have you seen the onslaught […]
How To Avoid The Pain Of Your Marketing Plan – (and it’s not what you think)
One of the recurring themes for people is finding the right tool to make their marketing work like magic. When I ask people what they need the tool for they say something like, ‘to make marketing simple and save time.’ Before we go on, I had to work this one out too. I thought a […]
LinkedIn – YAWN
Sorry kids. I am pretty much done with LinkedIn, in fact the main reason I keep it is because it is easier than a CV. (A what?) As an aside… I am amazed at how many agencies and tech companies who are on the bleeding edge it ask for a CV. Even for contracts and […]
“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come to the OuiShare London Summit and change the world?”
“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come to the OuiShare London Summit and change the world?” I’d like to be cooooooler but I am over the moon about the OuiShare London Summit next week in, er, London. There are over 100 people coming […]
#TAGtribe Member Blog – @CasualFilms play host to the #EastEndFilmFestival on Bank Holiday Monday #llbs
Remember when the East End was all jellied eels, chimney sweeps and regional stereotypes? Well no, you probably don’t, because the only time that’s been the case has been in musical theatre, namely Oliver and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Me Old Bamboo is truly legendary), and now the East End of London is the home […]
#TAGtribe Video Blog – Facebook – In 20 minutes 2,716,000 messages are sent and other Obsessions
The World Is Obsessed With Facebook from Alex Trimpe on Vimeo.
#TAGtribe Blog A social moment with @jamespoulter and Starbucks
If you have spent any time either here on my blog or with me in person you will know by now that I am a bit of a coffee fanatic. Being a self confessed caffeine junkie and working in social comms means that I am somewhat wedded to places like Starbucks to give me that fix on […]
