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Crescent Digital are now approved & registered Growth Voucher business advisers for Enterprise Nation.
The Enterprise Nation Marketplace is part of the government’s £30m Growth Vouchers programme, to help small businesses grow through the use of subsidised business advice.
The Growth Vouchers programme will distribute vouchers to around 20,000 small businesses in England, focussing on small businesses who have never sought business advice before. Businesses looking for advice can apply to the programme online and they will be randomly assigned to an online questionnaire or face-to-face business advice assessment.
Some businesses will be randomly chosen to get a voucher for up to £2,000 to help pay for business support in one of the specialist areas. The Growth Vouchers programme is available to small businesses in England who have been trading for at least one year, have 49 employees or less and have not sought strategic business advice before in the last three years (full eligibility and terms and conditions here).
Marketplace is powered by Enterprise Nation, the UK’s most active community of small business owners. Visit the Enterprise Nation website to find all the support you need to start and grow your business.
The Crescent Digital registration details can be found here:
Steve Baker, Founder, Certified Google Partner & Chartered Institute of Marketing Accredited Digital Marketing Specialist.
As a graduate software engineer, I started operating as a professional web designer in 2000, working on projects such as Brittany Ferries and Team Philips. I am also a Google Certified partner, accredited by the CIM and formally approved as a service provider for the UKTI for International Digital Marketing.I specialise in offering a complete service in order to generate more clients to help your business grow:
SEO (search engine optimisation) of websites.
PPC (pay per click) marketing campaigns such as Google AdWords
Social Media campaigns such as Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook
Email campaigns
CRM tools in order to provide the systems for your sales staff to convert more leads.
If your business would like to attract more clients and grow, please get in touch - I'd love to chat.
Be personable. Instead of your business Twitter account, set-up a new Twitter account as yourself, e.g. Joe Bloggs, MD of ACME Business Services, and include some of your non work interests in your profile as well as a link to your website. Despite much focus about B2B OR B2C, I subscribe to the H2H (human 2 human) theory in that people do business with people, particularly if your business is ‘B2B’. The owner / managers of your target client businesses are more likely to follow you as an interesting individual than a corporate entity.
Set-up a good Twitter profile including a professional background to represent your business including your logo & contact details. If you don’t have the time to do this yourself, have one created for $5 using one of Fiverr’s services
How Do You Find People To Follow?
Follow:
competitors (including the people they follow and their followers)
your clients (current, lapsed and potential)
industry influencers – aim to get your information from the horses mouth. For example regional news agencies during the recent storms followed the emergency services in order to break stories from trusted sources.
associates
organisations, agencies or chambers relevant to your business
Use Twitter advanced search.
Tweetdeckis free and allows you to search and track activity.
Your local chambers of commerce, competitors, etc will have Twitter lists of 100’s of local businesses. Subscribe to the lists and follow these members e.g. https://twitter.com/bw_businesswest/lists
How Do You Get People To Follow You Back?
With a good profile, you should now expect between 1/4 – 1/3 of people you follow to follow you back. A good guideline is to follow 100 new accounts per day which should result in an additional approximately 30 targeted customers / day following you back.
Go through your contact lists and ask them to follow you on Twitter.
Steve Baker, Founder, Certified Google Partner & Chartered Institute of Marketing Accredited Digital Marketing Specialist.
As a graduate software engineer, I started operating as a professional web designer in 2000, working on projects such as Brittany Ferries and Team Philips. I am also a Google Certified partner, accredited by the CIM and formally approved as a service provider for the UKTI for International Digital Marketing.I specialise in offering a complete service in order to generate more clients to help your business grow:
SEO (search engine optimisation) of websites.
PPC (pay per click) marketing campaigns such as Google AdWords
Social Media campaigns such as Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook
Email campaigns
CRM tools in order to provide the systems for your sales staff to convert more leads.
If your business would like to attract more clients and grow, please get in touch - I'd love to chat.
For example, if you have stopped posting updates 8 months ago, your potential clients may ask:
Does the company still exist?
Is the store still there?
Do you still have a website?
So you still stock the products?
Social media posts and updates can be planned out at the beginning of the week or even the month and scheduled using 3rd party tools such as Hootsuite.
These scheduled posts could include :
Product launches
Tease and reveal offers
Events (media, holidays, industry)
Promotional media
Brand milestone
Content series
Behind the scenes
Helpful tips
Coupons / vouchers
Thank Thursdays, Follow Fridays
Personal (non-business related) media / updates
A flexible plan with a day to day strategy at least one week in advance would reduce the workload involved and allow social media to fit and assist with your business goals.
If you wish to find out how to go about this, please get in touch. I can provide training on how to do this or this can provide this service for your business for as little as £95 / week.
Thanks for the explaination. I did everything accordingly, and now waiting for the 24h to pass for it to show up in my Analytics. However, the small one-sentence confirmation is not appearing anymore, when someone fills in the contact form on our website. Could you please give some input on how to fix this?
Unfortunately not I’m afraid. It does vary with the type of activity and LinkedIn frequently change their policies, but at present, LinkedIn’s maximum is 30 days.
Regards
Steve
Hi there.thank you for your website
Is there any possibility to see all my updates in linkedin from the bigining?I had been linkedin member for about 3 years or so and .I had shared simething that I need it now and unfortunately I lose to have them any where else they were gone. I’d have been grateful if you can guide me
Many thanks
Verena
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Thanks for the explaination. I did everything accordingly, and now waiting for the 24h to pass for it to show up in my Analytics. However, the small one-sentence confirmation is not appearing anymore, when someone fills in the contact form on our website. Could you please give some input on how to fix this?
stevenba
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Unfortunately not I’m afraid. It does vary with the type of activity and LinkedIn frequently change their policies, but at present, LinkedIn’s maximum is 30 days.
Regards
Steve
N_jarolmasjed
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Hi there.thank you for your website
Is there any possibility to see all my updates in linkedin from the bigining?I had been linkedin member for about 3 years or so and .I had shared simething that I need it now and unfortunately I lose to have them any where else they were gone. I’d have been grateful if you can guide me
Many thanks