Monthly Archives: July 2012

Making Twitter work for your business

Back in 2010, René wrote a blog post outlining seven ways in which Twitter can work for your business. These tips still stand and help to set out how Twitter can boost your business’ potential. However, in the last 18 …
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How to write a winning entry for the Construction Marketing Awards

Part of our built environment team, Neil has written four winning entries at the Construction Marketing Awards (CMAs). It’s that time of year again when marketers in the construction industry and built environment begin frantically pulling together their entries for …
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BDB’S MD shortlisted for Young Director of the Year award

The Institute of Directors (IoD) has selected BDB’s managing director Olivia Kehoe as a finalist in the Young Director of the Year category of the IoD North West Director of the Year Awards 2012. These awards recognise the region’s best business leaders …
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Food science finds its feet at IFT 2012

Long thought of as the lazy cousin of pharmaceutical industry, food safety is now finding its voice within the b2b food sector. And nowhere was this more evident than at the recent IFT in Las Vegas. While the pharmaceutical industry …
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How to find the perfect communications agency

Finding the right agency – PR, creative, digital, media or anything else -  is essential. And can be difficult. Everyone I know in the marketing communications world, client-side and agency, has had at least one bad experience (and in most …
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BDB at ONS 2012

Meet us at ONS 2012, one of the world’s leading meeting places for the global energy industry. During the 38 years that it has been held in the Norwegian city of Stavanger, ONS has become one of the key events bringing …
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Engaging community leaders to build b2b online audiences

Having found time in between writing, managing accounts and trips to exhibitions, to watch a BrightTALK webinar entitled ‘Secrets of building online b2b audiences using social media’ I thought it useful to share the key insights with you. Quoc Dang, …
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BDB at Daresbury Business Breakfast Networking Event

Meet up with BDB’s Catherine Butcher at the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus Business breakfast network event on 13 July. It’s an opportunity to connect with the North’s most dynamic hi-tech entrepreneurs, corporates, universities, support organisations and funding and professional …
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How Google’s latest algorithm update affects your online marketing

Google’s ‘Penguin’ update came to effect on April 24, 2012 and for many digital commentators was a very big deal. The update significantly changed the formula that Google uses to rank web pages in its search engine results – in …
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Behind the lens

Part 1 – a look at studio photography At BDB, we love photoshoots. A break from brochure production, newsletters or eshots, a good photoshoot gives us something different to get our teeth into. With a shoot on the horizon for …
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The Power of PR

The success of every organisation is built on its reputation – and a corporate reputation that takes years to develop can be destroyed in an instant by an ill-advised Tweet or a spokesperson’s gaffe going viral.  With the explosion of …
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Superfoods, supermarketing

“My Supervitamin Chocolate contains huge amounts of vitamin A and vitamin B.  It also contains vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin F, vitamin G, vitamin I, vitamin J, vitamin K, vitamin L, vitamin M, vitamin N, vitamin O … …
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BDB at ONS 2012

Meet us at ONS 2012, one of the world’s leading meeting places for the global energy industry. During the 38 years that it has been held in the Norwegian city of Stavanger, ONS has become one of the key events bringing …
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