Recently we met with the guys behind Llan Rocks, the brand new music festival in South Wales. Chris and Chris started Llan Rocks in 2018 and have a vision of it growing to a much bigger event in the not too distant future. We're really pleased to be helping Llan Rocks in 2019, creating a brand, a website, marketing material and facilitating ticket sales through Ticket Source. With their new website and social media channels all live we can't wait to launch ticket sales and sm

We love Wales, we love our home and our language and we have loved working with Cars Cymru to develop a brand, social media and a product to sell. The project came around after we designed some location stickers for various locations around Wales, Aberystwyth, Cardiff etc etc... These were initially going to be just a simple sticker but then we thought this might have more to it. So we looked at t-shirts and jumpers and wondered if there was a demand for Welsh and local type

Finishing off 2018 where we started it, talking to new business all over Wales and helping them with their digital marketing in whatever way we can, at the end of October we spoke to a new business in Aberystwyth called Wok 2 Eat and went about creating their digital marketing plan before opening their doors. The new asian takeaway wants to stand out from the rest, with its in store cooking show and freshly sourced ingredients all cooked in from of your eyes it will certainly

You must have used Instagram or Snapchat stickers by now yeah? If you haven’t used them you've seen them, ever wanted your own as a business or brand? Well you can add your own branded stickers and it’s pretty straight forward, the first thing you need is a GIPHY brand account, make sure it’s a brand account as this allows your gifs to be public and searched and then used. Now you have to upload your GIFs and stickers, GIFs are straight forward but with stickers these need to

Standing out from everyone else on Instagram is pretty tough, nearly impossible from a small business perspective, unless you have big budgets for advertising and you're using Instagram influencers; you're going to struggle! But, don't give up before you start, get on there and set up your profile. Make it on brand, create it as a business account as this allows you to see insights and have call to actions on your profile. Now think of a theme you want to run throughout your

Social media is easy to run with right? It's so easy businesses give it to the new intern or the person from accounts to run and expect it bring in leads or generate business instantly, only for it to fall flat on it's face and be pulled a few months later. You wouldn't expect a novice to make a perfect cake would you? What are you talking about cakes for? I hear you ask, don't worry all will be clear! That business that now has dormant social media accounts didn't do the bas

Do you have two, three or thirty three members of staff? Do they engage with you on social media? Why not? Tap in to this underused commodity you have as a business. This isn't something you can force on staff, only encourage but if it is done correctly it can have a great deal of benefits to your business on social media. Not just limited to LinedIn, the professional of networks ;) this is on all platforms, if you have a great service or product or maybe you have a pretty co

We are really pleased to announce we have started working and supporting Bullies Out charity, the national charity helps and supports victims of bullying as well as offer training in the workplace. Bullying happens in all walks of life and increasingly online and social media in particular, we see it so much and want to stop it and help Bullies Out charity increasing their awareness. Established in May 2006, Bullies Out are one of the UK's most dedicated and ambitious anti-bu

Visiting businesses week in week out delivering workshops and training is great fun, delivering sessions on digital marketing, PPC and social media including social media advertising. When visiting a business to offer training we like to tailor the session to that particular business rather than use a generic session, looking at the clients website, social media and social media ads as well as any of their other marketing material. The success of the sessions is obvious from

Quick Social Media Tip - It may seem like a great idea and save you some time but automatic cross posting from social media channels to others doesn't work! So many businesses who contact me every day ask for the quickest way possible to post across all social media channels at once, why? It may save you 45 seconds or so by doing it but believe me it doesn't work, and worse still looks bad. Images from Facebook or Instagram won't appear correctly on Twitter, links may be lost

Going global: How online marketing helped a Welsh entrepreneur to secure international clients! Article from Wales Online. There is more to social media than meets the eye. It might seem to be just the odd tweet or Facebook post, but Damian Burgess used its power to transform his business, Red Squirrel Marketing , thanks to free advice from Superfast Business Wales . Red Squirrel Marketing was set up in 2015 by 32-year-old Burgess and the business has gone from strength to st

Businesses using social media to market their product, service or brand is common place, every business and brand has some form of social media presence whether it be one channel or over multiple channels; so how do you stand out from the rest in this noisy environment. You have to make the right noise of course, you have to be the noise that grabs peoples attention (and in the right way) you have to be the same but be different and unique to your brand. The first thing you n

Many businesses that I speak to every week in Cardiff or Aberystwyth have their social media accounts set up and ready, but they are either lost with what to post, type of content to share or how much to post. The first place they venture when setting up their social media channels is Facebook, creating a page, adding their logo and little description and then sharing their first post. After that, some more posts follow they invite their friends and family, 50 or so followers

It has been a busy year so far in 2018, in front of the computer and on stage.. This week I was lucky enough to come away with the Entrepreneur of the year award at the Bierkeller Awards in Cardiff. Up for two awards and up against some great companies it was a surprise to scoop the award and I would like to thank everyone who has supported me over the last two years. A massive thank you to my clients and a huge thank you to other business owners who have always given me time

Last week I met with Dan from UFIT in Cardiff, Dan is a flexible dieting coach and vlogger who has created some great content for his own social media channels and website as well as for Ufit. I spoke to Dan about the marketing side of things at Ufit, managing it in-house and what it is that works for them at the biggest gym in Cardiff to get new faces through the doors. There are quite a few gyms in Cardiff, what’s your biggest marketing channel that you use here at UFIT? So

Back in 2017 we entered a few different awards around Cardiff and South Wales as well as back in Aberystwyth, we were highly commended in some, didn't get the win at others but managed to win the Online Influence award at the Zokit Conference. Well this year we went and got the most votes once again, coming out head and shoulders above the rest. To influence an audience on social media is difficult, we try our best to do it day in and day out with our clients marketing, we tr

I have so many questions emailed in to me about what is next for social media or how a business can better use social media, the first thing I ask is if the business is using social media ads, and specifically Facebook ads to reach more and new people. So what now for social media?? Gone are the days of playing this social media marketing game for free, time to have a go at paid advertising. Many are put off by using facebook ads because they think it's complicated but also b

Are there any businesses that aren't on social media? Successful businesses? (This doesn't count if a business used to be on social media and then for PR reasons shut down their accounts.. cough cough Spoons!) If you were to start a new business today, a website, a business bank account, a logo, business cards and of course social media would all be the first things to sort out and then you're up and running. My guess is that you already have social media set up for your busi

As a freelancer and small business owner networking is key to growth and meeting new businesses and new clients, it is also difficult to find the time to fit in networking with all the creative and consulting work that one person can do in one day or one week. Managing time is the key to running a successful sole trader business, but networking and being better at networking is another key strength to have to maintain a successful business. I have never been one of these peop

Your a new business, you have a brand name and great new logo, you're thinking of having a new website, you've got the team uniform ready and you're now on social media.. it's one of the key elements of having a business these days. We speak to new businesses and business people every week in Aberystwyth and Cardiff and help them take their first steps in to social media and marketing their business. Now we all start at the bottom, no fans, no followers and no likes...GULP!!