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It’s Friend’s 1st birthday today and we are celebrating!
It’s been full of the thrills and spills you’d expect from starting a business specialising in a relatively ‘niche’ area like social media and in the middle of a recession!
But life, and business, are about taking risks – and the risk paid off!
While introducing myself as the presenter of a social media training course, one of the attendees mused that he was expecting someone “considerably younger” than me to be doing the training!
Now its true, I’m no spring chicken and time hasn’t been particularly kind to my face, but age does not preclude a person from understanding social media.
Or even participating in social networking, as I’m about to prove.
Google is always fiddling, or ‘refining’ as it calls it, with its algorithm, the one that determined which sites we see at the top of our search results pages.
Usually you need to be a search engine optimisation (SEO) expert or a real geek to spot the changes, or follow Google’s official blog.
If you’ve no desire to go on Facebook, think Twitter is full of twaddle, haven’t got the slightest inclination to write a blog and ignore all invites from Linkedin, you’re probably the managing director of a successful company!
friend has released a no-nonsense ten-point guide in order to try to convince MD’s to embrace social media:
“If you’ve no desire to go on Facebook, think Twitter is full of twaddle, haven’t got the slightest inclination to write a blog and ignore all invites from Linkedin, you’re probably a director of a successful company!”
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Background
Headline Communications is one of Birmingham’s leading B2B PR consultancies.
As well as gaining national coverage, they have been getting their clients’ stories in the regional press for decades.
Given the movement of national press to online and the slow demise of the local newspaper, in the printed form at least, they needed to quickly transfer their [...]
