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Smart Cow means business

Smart Cow is, yet again, exhibiting at the “We Mean Business” expo at the Fairfield halls on Thursday 16th October. We are proud to be associated with the top Business show in South London, making it our 4th year in a row of attending the event.

This year looks to be even bigger and better than ever, with the eco drive show in the forecourt and a chance to have your photo taken with the premiership trophy.

Being number one for “Online Marketing in Croydon” Smart Cow also realises that businesses also need to meet with other businesses and in Croydon this annual expo is the best place to do this.

Come and visit us at stand 50 our regular spot at the expo, looking at the list of exhibitors the are some great failure faces we are looking forward to catching up with as well as making new friends and business partners.

So what’s on offer at the  Smart Cow stand, we have our Business card draw for a free online marketing review, social media training or a bottle of wine. Just come by and say hello, drop by your card and take a jelly baby or two. We’d like you to meet our growing team and we’d you to find out what we can do to grow your business. you can register for we mean business 2014 online.

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Top five predictions from Smart Cow Marketing

Welcome to 2013!  With the knowledge that changes are happening at an ever-increasing rate it is very difficult to predict what will happen in the next 12 months, however here are our views on the significant changes ahead in 2013 from an online marketing point of view.

1. Google+ will start to increase its percentage of the social media market. However, this will mainly be for businesses as the individual will continue to use Facebook and twitter is the main social media.  Google+ we’ll be increasingly more powerful as it will have a higher ranking within the sites SEO and so online marketing companies such as smart cow will continue to recommend for businesses have a Google plus presents.

2. Google will continue to show its dominance as the number one search engine.  This sounds like what an obvious choice however there is so much competition online that we see that this will not always be the case. With different ways of searching and different operating systems we can see that the Google will lose its power but not in the immediate future. We see new search from Facebook and the rise of Windows 8 phones will impact on Google eventually.

3. Mobile sites will become more and more important to businesses. Now that mobile products now overtake the desktop as the main ways to connect to the Internet businesses will need to ensure that their sites on mobile enabled. This can be either by a mobile site or through a responsive skin to the existing site. Either way businesses we’ll have to be paying more attention to the mobile market.

4. Google AdWords will become more and more mainstream for businesses.  The AdWords entry level will become much easier for the introduction of keywords free adverts.  However, to get a truly world performing AdWords campaign businesses will need to rely more and more on online marketing companies. As the complexity and the competition will be just as tough as organic search engine optimisation.

5. Local search will take place of the high street. With the recession still taking a grip, businesses will rely more and more on a local presence, the easiest way of being found in the local search is through Google local. This also relies very closely to the Google+ pages one enabling people to provide for the use of your business online increasing the chances of you been pounds in a search.

We’ll return at the end of the year to see how these predictions have gone and what lies ahead for 2014 for which we are already excited as we’re waiting the release of all Google and windows classes integration augmented reality into your everyday life.

Let us know your thoughts on these predictions are and if you have any predictions of your own. And come back soon.

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If you need a helping hand with your digital marketing strategy, get in touch with us at Smart Cow Digital Marketing for expert advice on how to conduct an effective digital marketing campaign!

Services we offer include web design and developmentSEOPay Per Click (PPC)social media management through to CRM and marketing automation.

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Well it’s a merry Christmas from Smart Cow Marketing

Well it’s a very merry Christmas from us at Smart Cow Marketing.  And what a year it has been, we launched Smart Cow Marketing in February this year.  Despite a few bumps on the road it has been an excellent time.

We have got some great new clients and really appreciate your support, we offer a proud of products and services we have delivered over the year and especially likely to the team at we mean business in Croydon in November.

Now and then

2012

So, as well as starting Smart Cow Marketing, we have also formed new partnerships with Microsoft, Google, Constant Contact and mojoPortal to name but a few.

We also enhanced our technology skills added some exciting new features to our websites as well as integrating with online stores.

2013

And on to next year we have got some exciting times ahead of us. With new developments from Google AdWords and the rapid increase of social marketing we will certainly have had time cut out for ourselves. But we’re really looking forward to the challenges ahead as well as delivering some great websites.

Predictions?

So, as long as the world does not end on the 21st of December as predicted by the myan prophecy, we are looking forward to some exciting new developments. Google AdWords is developing at such a fast pace making it easier and simpler to manage your own AdWords campaign, however we are always here to help with a more detailed and advanced campaigns.

Video in websites will become more and more frequent and businesses will have to learn to be even more savvy with presenting in front of the camera.  With the bandwidth ever increasing and different mobile technologies coming to the a front the life of online marketing has never been so exciting.

But most of all we wish you all had a merry Christmas and a prosperous 2013.

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Smart Cow partners with Constant Contact

Smart Cow Marketing is proud to announce that it has started a brand new partnership with Constant Contact.

We have spent much time researching the market and have found the perfect partner to support the Smart Cow range of products.

Why Constant Contact?

No 1 email

Having tried the rest of the market, we must say that we are very impressed by them all.

All offer great tools and functionality to support an email marketing campaign and we will not knock any of the competition.

However, it must be said that for the range of products, one company kept on ticking all the boxes and that was Constant Contact.

Other products

As well as email marketing we were also drawn to the social media marketing as well.

Constant Contact provide great social media tools, event management, and polls.

All the different ways to keep your clients engaged.

Partnership with you

If you are looking for an email partner then we can help you. Call on 020 3137 1826 or email saymoo@smart-cow.com and Smart Cow will help you along the way. We will act as your partner getting the most out of your email campaign.

We hope that this article is of use, feel free to forward it to whoever may find it useful.

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