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Facebook lift third-party app competition proviso

Late last month Facebook made an announcement that made a lot of small business owners very happy. They announced that they were ditching their third-party app proviso for competitions and promotions ran by brands and businesses on their Facebook pages. In another business friendly move they announced a collaboration with stock photo company Shutterstock to make millions of images from its library accessible to businesses for use in their ads at no additional cost. spy sms What does this mean exactly? Until recently, Facebook’s rules were roughly as follows: You... Read The Rest →

The human side in a hard-hitting business story

Recent research by Bacs – the automated bank payment scheme – reveals that at any one time, over a million small businesses in the UK are waiting for payment for goods or services, and that the collective debt stands at a staggering £30.2 billion. Late payments have a crippling affect on small businesses, who frequently find that larger companies simply impose their own payment terms. According to the research, smaller firms are forced to wait an average eight weeks after bills are due, yet feel they cannot make a stand... Read The Rest →

The Honey Monster comes to Redditch!

We don’t need an excuse to bring the big furry fella to Redditch but when local nursery, Tudor Hall won the ‘design a hat’ competition on Honey Monster’s facebook page, we thought what better to way reward them than a visit from Honey Monster himself – laden with Sugar Puffs goodies of course! We have managed The Honey Monster’s Facebook and Twitter presence for the last year and often run competitions as part of our ongoing engagement with mums and their children – providing a fun place to interact with... Read The Rest →

Happy Birthday Conversis!

Hartelijk gefeliciteerd! Joyeaux Anniversaire! Alles Gute zum Geburtstag! Saeng il chuk ha ham ni da! Wszystkiego Najlepszego! La-breithe mhaith agat! Buon Compleanno! Eytyxismena Genethlia! Tillykke med fodselsdagen! This month marks our client, leading translation and localisation service provider, Conversis’s 10th birthday! We’ve been helping Conversis develop and manage traditional PR and social media campaigns for a number of years (read our client case study) and we’re delighted to see them doing so well.  To grow the business to what it is today in just 10 years is remarkable in itself,... Read The Rest →

Meet CW’s latest recruit – Alison Tarry

A warm welcome to our newest recruit: Social Media & PR Account Manager Alison Tarry! Alison was an early adopter of social media, starting her first blog at the tender age of 11! She’s been blogging on and off for the last 15 years and managing social media presences professionally for the last 3. Alison brings a broad base of social media marketing experience to the table at CW having designed and delivered successful social media campaigns for well-known B2B and B2C companies including large retail destinations, blue-chip companies and... Read The Rest →

The secret to successful Content Marketing

Content marketing enables organisations to communicate more effectively with their customers, members and their own employees by creating and telling business stories that engage, motivate and inspire. how to make money from home The more your customers understand and relate to your business, the more likely they will be to buy your products or services; and the more your members or employees feel involved in their organisation, the more likely they will actively contribute and make a positive difference. As the MD of a content marketing agency with over 25... Read The Rest →

Life as an intern at CW.
What to expect, when you’re unsure of what to expect!

Will I be making cups of coffee for eight hours a day? Are they going to let me stop to take a bathroom break? How many paper cuts am I going to get from filing papers all day? These questions and more were running through my head in the days leading up to my big first day as a marketing intern for CW. Luckily, my first day and every day after have been far from that. Immediately I was shown my Mac desktop, workspace and my email was already assigned.... Read The Rest →

London 2012 set for Gold in social

While social networks may feel like they have been around as long as the Olympics to many of us, London 2012 is set to bring into focus the dramatic rise of social media. Rewind four years to Beijing 2008 and Facebook had just 100 million members, while only 6 million people were tweeting. But, in the last four years the blistering pace of users getting social has been enough to make Usain Bolt look like a slouch. Facebook users now number 900 million, with Twitter not so far behind on... Read The Rest →

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