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Organisers for this year V Festival at Weston Park near Stafford, Staffordshire have announced that the tickets sold out within one and half hours.<h2>Essex and Staffordshire</h2>The festival is held annually at two venues, Chelmsford in Essex and Weston Park near Stafford in Staffordshire, on the same weekend and the acts play alternate days at each venue. This year Kasabian and Kings...
Poorly performing websites are costing retailers as much as £5.65 billion per year in online sales according to a joint press release from by Hostway and Zeus Technology where they detail research they have commissioned. The research reveals ongoing user frustrations with slow loading multimedia website contentThe survey used the abandon rate, which is where a customer starts to make a purchase bu...
A national survey of 3,000 people has shown that the British public is wasting £52 billion every year on gadgets that they don't know how to work. The study by Stuff Magazine reports the average annual spend on electronic devices is £3,065, but as much as half of the functionality is left unused. Unbelievably, almost half of those surveyed didn't realise that a HD TV needs to be connected to an HD...
Advertising often fails to deliver for companies with low marketing budgets, but small businesses keep asking about sources of cheap advertising. Advertising can be a useful tool but small business with a low or micro budget need to think in terms of free or low cost, effort based marketing. Marketing that doesn't need much money but does require effort.
Ultra Low Cost Effort Mark...
Numerous news sources are reporting that the Penguin News Website has a new design. The website was attacked by Argentinian hackers who put a new website design of the Argentinian flag on the home page with their national anthem playing. The Faulkland Island newspaper has a circulation of about 1500 so would seem to be pretty easy prey and wouldn't normally raise more than an ironic smirk from the...
Selfish fly tippers are ruining an area of natural beauty at Cannock Chase in Staffordshire. The situation is so bad that a reward is being offered to help catch those responsible after water tanks and other plumbing materials where being dumped by the side of the road for the fourth time in six weeks in Norton Lane, between Cannock and Norton Canes.
Many people from Stafford and C...
In line with our Social Media blogging focus for 2010, Rake Mark have launched a New Business Facebook Page. This will be used to keep you updated on company activities, new articles (both news and blogs), new products and information that will help guide you through the process of the change in your marketing mix.
From here you can participate in discussions, comment on posts and we ar...
A new study by iProspect has demonstrated just how effective using offline marketing to influence your online presence can be. The study states that 40% of online searchers make a purchase after being influenced by an offline channel? 'Offline marketing effects online sales', is npt an attention grabbing headline, but 40% is a newsworthy figure. While other studies and news articles around a...
A new study from ComScore has shown that there are winners and losers in the world of social media. Facebook again recorded the lion’s share of visitors with 23.8 million visitors, an increase of 57%. Twitter showed a modest 2.7 million visitors, but the exciting part of this is that Twitter showed an increase of over 3000%.
Bebo, MySpace and Friends Reunited all showed a loss of visito...
If you were wondering how important Twitter and Facebook are in your online marketing mix, a recent study by ComScore suggests that it could be a vital. With social networking becoming a mainstream online activity for all age groups, this is an opportunity to generate publicity for your product and engage with your customers like never before. Although the opportunity to engage using social media ...