DDM Marketing


Constructive website marketing and website development information

How to market your web design, development and marketing business

If you are in the web design, development or online marketing business, then you will probably already know how easy it is to forget to do your own marketing. It may be that you do think about it, but simply do not have the time, but this could be affecting your business more than you know. As an expert in online marketing you will know that in order to rank well on the search engine sites you need to ensure that your website is updated with fresh and relevant content often and ideally that you are also updating your social media accounts too. By not doing this, you run... Read More

Should Facebook be part of your marketing strategy?

There is a huge number of us who use social media sites such as Facebook as part of our daily lives, but should you be using it in your business? When Facebook first hit our screens, many businesses were sceptical about using it. The fact that it is often so open and easy to spread messages and opinions put many business owners off and many thought that it would be unprofessional to do so. Years down the line and millions of businesses are taking advantage of the free advertising and quick instant contact that you can make with your followers. Facebook definitely does work... Read More

Is it worthwhile investing in quality graphics?

Whether you are designing a website, flyer, business card or any other promotional material you should always use quality graphics. Quality graphics should not be distorted, should be clear and not pixelated and should be the correct colour. All too often, businesses will have sign written vans or websites that have used poor quality images and therefore make the company look cheap and unprofessional. This is sometimes enough to put people off using them and they go elsewhere. You can buy graphics from a number of places online such as Istock or Getty or you can ask for a... Read More

Why is consistency important in a business?

When running a business it is important to be consistent. You should try and be consistent on all levels in order to build up and maintain a quality brand. For example, if you run a hotel then you need to make sure that your rooms are cleaned to a consistently good standard, the food is cooked and presented consistently well and that the members of staff you employ and consistently polite. Not only should you ensure consistency with the day to day activities but you should also ensure that all of your signage, literature and logos are uniform throughout the business and on... Read More

Improving Quality Score on Google Adwords

Google Adwords is a Pay per Click program that allows people to create adverts to link to their website or advertise a contact number. Most PPC adverts when clicked, take the visitor through to a specific page within their website. This can just be the home page but also any other page on the site. Each keyword within Adwords is given a quality score. This quality score is based on the average click through rate for that ad, the landing page experience and ad relevancy. The higher the quality score the less you will have to pay to be within the top positions. The landing... Read More