On The Blog
10 Ways To Grow Your Email List
I've written many posts over the years on email marketing because it remains one of the most effective ways to market your business. As the pandemic changed how we work and live, the volume of marketing emails dramatically increased because marketers needed to explore...
WhatsWhat ie – Marketing Clinic
I've been a member of the WhatsWhat.ie business community for quite a number of years now, of the many business groups on social media I've found this to be a place you can make real connections. Over the past year there have been a number of clinics available to...
10 Blog Content Ideas For Your Business
When it comes to marketing your business online one of the most effective means of doing this is using your company's blog, a place on your website that doesn't necessarily need to conform to a template and is, therefore, available for you to update with content...
Social Media Content Ideas For June 2021
Almost at the half way point of the year and brighter days, even a little sunshine. And, for those of us in Ireland of course, a lovely long bank holiday weekend too. In this month's post in our series we've got, as always, a selection of dates to be mindful of or to...
Social Media Conversation Starter Ideas
Every one of us has sat in front of a blank screen at some point wondering what we can say? So, in today's post, we're sharing 20 ideas to get your conversation started on social media that are not related to any specific business, they're some very general questions...
Look Good Online – NEW from The Marketing Shop
As always we've got a blog post for a Tuesday but this week's is a little different, it's a post about a new offering from The Marketing Shop. Over the years we've worked with businesses from all sorts of very different industries on making the most of their presence...
What Can Be Shared On Social Media Or Other Marketing Channels?
You might say that the answer to this is just about anything and really there's no hard and fast rule other than it needs to work for your business, should tie in with your brand, and is something you believe will be of interest to your audience. Every month we post...
Marketing As You Get Set To Re-Open
There was a collective cheer of relief as the first re-opening dates were announced here in Ireland last week, even though not everybody knows exactly when they get to throw open the doors again we all know that it's on the way. We've been through unusual times so...
Social Media Content Ideas For May 2021
Brighter evenings, warmer days and businesses starting to re-open - finally it's feeling just a little like summer! And, as is always the case the beginning of a new month means a post from us with dates that are coming up in the month ahead. Our pick of dates for May...
10 Things Your Website Should Have – Part 2
A little earlier this year we wrote about 10 Things Your Website Should Have and at the time we promised that rather than giving you one lengthy list to implement we'd follow up with another post and today here it is. To recap, in our previous post we advised that the...
Thoughts From Ten Years Of The Marketing Shop
We marked a milestone here at The Marketing Shop this week, 18th April marked exactly 10 years since we first started to trade. It's been an amazing experience, once of the best decisions I've ever made and in that time we've worked with and met with so many different...
Goals – How To Set Them For Your Business
We all know we should do it both in business and in our personal lives as goals really are the most effective means of getting things done. If you're not a goal-setter do you know what you could be missing out on? If you do set goals how realistic are they? Goals...