When it comes to building up your social media, it’s important to utilise all the tools available to you. The best way to ensure your content has the best reach, engagement and impact is to be consistent and balanced with your content. The easiest way to look at this...
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Website Launches: February 2023
February was a busy month when it comes to our website launches, for clients from Beddgelert to Llandeilo! Take a look below: Greener Edge Sustainability This was a really exciting brief - go big, bold, have fun. A bilingual, WordPress website for Stu from Greener...
How to create a social media campaign
Creating a social media campaign can be a great way to engage with your audience, increase brand awareness and ultimately drive more traffic and sales. Here are a few tips to help you create a successful social media campaign: Set your goals The first step in creating...
How to up Your Instagram Game
Instagram is a great platform, and perhaps I’m biased as it’s my favourite platform, but it has a lot of potential if you know how to use it well. Many people are able to make their living off of Instagram and garner a lot of success from it – as someone who has been...
How Your Social Media is Going Wrong
Using social media as a part of your digital marketing strategy is essential when it comes to promoting your business in this day and age. Whether you’re an influencer, creator or a plumber, not taking advantage of social media puts you at a disadvantage when it comes...
The Importance of Video in Business
It’s no hidden fact that in today’s world of marketing and social media, video is indeed king. Statista’s data as of January 2022, listed the top six most popular social media platforms for business, and two of them, that’s a quarter, were video centric (yes, that’s...
Website Launches: January 2023
It takes time for businesses to get 'back to work' after the Christmas holidays, and so for us, January is not typically a busy month when it comes to website launches. We expect more enquiries and discussions on projects already on the go. So, for January 2023, we...
Banned Hashtags
Hashtags are an important part of business strategy on Instagram, as it allows you connect with wider audiences, trends and get seen. However, it is very important that you remain up to date with which hashtags you can use, and which ones you cannot, as using a banned...
ContentCal Alternative – Publer
Social media scheduling tool ContentCal is closing at the end of March 2023, much to the dismay of many businesses who have chosen to use this tool. There's a whole wealth of tools out there to use for social media scheduling, and I can tell you, we've tried a lot of...
Guestlink is Closing Down
The ability to take online bookings for holiday cottage owners and small B&Bs is essential - which is why news of Guestlink closing down is a real shock. We've worked with holiday cottages, B&Bs and hotels for over 10 years on their websites and digital...
The Bear and the Hare – Why it’s Still my Favourite Christmas Ad of all Time
Now that December is here and the yearly John Lewis advert has been out a few weeks, I felt like it was a time to reflect on Christmas adverts past and present. Whilst I do adore the most recent in the long line of John Lewis adverts, and Edgar the Dragon (2019) was a...
New Website Launch: Tir Canol
The new website for Tir Canol launched last week, and we've been really happy to work alongside them on the new design. Tir Canol is a community that's designing and providing positive outcomes for nature and people through their use of land and sea. The website works...
Is Your Website Responsive?
Websites have come a long way in their relatively short history. Since the early 90s, websites have gone from extremely simple information sheets to dynamic, vibrant works of art full of graphics and videos while providing plenty of information. It’s not just websites...
Mastodon: The “Twitter Alternative”
We’re all by now familiar with the current climate on Twitter – with Musk’s takeover having sparked huge controversy on the site amid mass bannings, firings and parody accounts since his new reign began. Whilst hashtags such as #TwitterMigration and #TwitterExodus are...
How to create a social media campaign for your small business
Small businesses are guilty of avoiding planning social media campaigns, and there really is no reason to. A 'campaign' might sound quite high level and scary, but in essence, they're just a clear plan of action to promote a single product, service or event. From...
Should your brand be on TikTok?
Everyone is talking about it - and they have been for a while. Perhaps you're now feeling more and more the pressure of 'should you be on TikTok'? Well, let's take a look. What is TikTok? TikTok is a video based social media app. While it gained huge popularity during...
How to Write a Blog…
Ah, the familiar sight – you’re staring at a blank document with lots to say and no way of saying it or, arguably worse, you have nothing to say at all. We’ve all been there, whether it was that 10,000-word essay due about six hours from now or trying to write that...
Should Social Media be “Owned?”
It’s no hidden fact that social media has an astounding impact on our lives. Back in the days of BEBO or MSM, none of us could have predicted quite how important platforms such as Twitter, Instagram or Facebook have currently become in day-to-day life, but they have,...
Welsh in the Digital World
The 21st century has seen astronomical growth in global internet users, from 413 million in 2000 to a staggering 4.95 billion by the start of 2022. That’s over 60% of the world’s population. Welsh, Cymraeg, a language that was first written down by the ancient Romans...
How Many Social Media Networks Should my Business Have?
So, you’ve finally got your business started and now you want to get your social media presence out there to promote yourself. But where do you start? Often when we first set up our presence online, it can be incredibly daunting…there are so many Social Media networks...
Google’s Latest Update: Helpful Content Update
If you didn’t know, Google and other search engines often tweak and change their algorithms to improve how search results are delivered, and for the most part, these search engines often don’t tell us when they do these changes. For the most part! Google is usually...