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A Sideways Look at Marketing Strategy for Service Businesses in Cumbria
Marketing strategy for service business in Cumbria should be relatively straight forward. Often we make it too complicated... or we don't do a full strategy, but pick at some of the tactics and wonder why it seems to be a failure. It's not just digital marketing where...
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The Diversity Update – Nowt to Do With Orange Thing!
Here’s an update that will affect businesses with multiple locations in particular. One of the big American agencies, Sterling Sky, noticed a potentially useful change in the way Google shows Google Business Profiles and organic results on the same page for any...
Solving Google Business Profile Verification Problems for a 3PL Client in Kirkby Lonsdale
A new client who signed up with me in 2024 required some initial SEO work to improve the visibility of their website. Context and Background Copper Beech Trading are a small but very forward thinking order fulfilment and third party logistics business. They started...
Direct Messaging from Your Google Business Profile
Google has introduced or should I say reintroduced the ability to message your business directly from their Google Business Profile. This facility did exist previously, but the implementation was pretty hopeless. In the end it was removed from GBPS about six months or...