Brightfire Blog
Make Your Website an Inbound Marketing production line…
by Rob McLeod on Mar.10, 2010, under Branding, Consulting, Interactive, Technology
Anyone engaged in sales and marketing activity will have made many cold calls in their time. But for us at Brightfire the number of cold calls we make and expenditure on mass media marketing have reduced dramatically in the past, yet sales have increased and business is much more interesting. Couldn’t you find a better use of your time and money? Think of how your life day-to-day sales routine could change if you were calling only prospects who you know actually want to buy from you. At Brightfire we know that many firms still – despite all the media noise and hype out there – have not realised it’s a digital world and the old rules have been thrown out the window.
So how would you optimise the online presence of your business to drive inbound enquiry for new customers and not have to cold call again or buy expensive mass media? Here are a number of strategic considerations to drive traffic to your ecommerce website, enquiries to your email inbox and make your phone start ringing: (continue reading…)
Britons are the biggest spenders online
by Rob McLeod on Feb.01, 2010, under Consulting, Interactive, Technology
News from the Independent today:
Britons are the biggest online spenders in Europe, making nearly a third of all internet purchases across the continent during 2009, a report showed today.
Consumers in the UK collectively spent an estimated £38 billion online last year, accounting for 30 per cent of total European internet sales, according to price comparison site Kelkoo.
Despite the recession, online sales grew by 12 per cent in the UK during (continue reading…)
6 in 10 Marketers Spending More on Content Marketing in 2010
by Rob McLeod on Feb.01, 2010, under Consulting
For the third straight year, marketers are planning to spend significantly more on their content marketing efforts. For 2010, approximately six in 10 marketing professionals surveyed plan to increase their spending on content initiatives. The January, 2010 findings came from a survey of 259 marketing professionals (continue reading…)



