February 2012
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Intracom VAT Registry Scam
Starting a new business?
More and more people are incorporating their own businesses with companies house online when previously it was the role of your accountant. If you register your business at your own address (not your accountant’s as is the usual practice) you might find some interesting scam letters through your door.
If you receive a very convincing letter from Intracom VAT...
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Intracom VAT Registry Scam
Starting a new business?
More and more people are incorporating their own businesses with companies house online when previously it was the role of your accountant. If you register your business at your own address (not your accountant’s as is the usual practice) you might find some interesting scam letters through your door.
If you receive a very convincing letter from Intracom VAT...
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Domain scam from codero.com?
If you receive an email claiming to be an “important notice” regarding your domain name renewal, a domain service notice or a search engine submission notice don’t be fooled. Read the small print at the bottom. It is a solicitation (phishing) email designed to make domain owners panic and sign up to something they don’t need.
Do not reply to them just add them to your...
January 2012
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Google Search, Plus Your World
Google have now published a new initiative called “Search, Plus Your World”, which aims to bring you more personalised search results. Now, when you search for anything in particular, you have the option to include related data from your Google+ profile as well as those privately shared with you.
The change will also provide auto complete results from your contacts, so if you begin typing their...
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Five Reasons to Use Social Media for Business
Social Media is where you want to be when it comes to helping your business expand, as it is a priceless asset in the marketing world. Social media channels like Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin attract so much continual attention from Internet users, it has become a phenomenal and powerful venue for advertisers to create interest and traffic. Here are five reasons to use social media for...
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Revitalise your business for 2012
Assess your website: Websites are a fantastic way in drumming up business, and with the continuous ways of being able to advertise, it’s a great opportunity to obtain customers. But like anything, first impressions count, so make sure your website is impactful and accurately represents your business.It doesn’t matter what product or service you are selling, if someone takes a disliking to it –...
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Do you plan on Google+ing?
Google+ (Google Plus), Googles answer to Facebook, may not have the massive membership numbers that Facebook now enjoys, but it has just recorded its strongest-month ever and, according to Experian Hitwise, should reach 400million users by the end of the year.
Hitwise tweeted: “Google+ total US visits reach more than 49 million in Dec-11, biggest month to date & up 55% compared to Nov-11...
December 2011
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AsOne Christmas Party
Look out Birdcage Manchester, we’re off on our works do tonight! Dinner and dancing, just like the good olde days!
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Do you Check-in?
Do you check in on Foursquare, Facebook or another location-based app at least once a week? If so, you’re among just 2% of the adult population, according to a new US report.
Forrester Research surveyed 37,000 people with mobile phones and discovered that 70% no only didn’t regularly use location based check-in apps but didn’t even know what they were. On the bright side thats better...
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Selling online for an additional revenue stream
Think, what can you do in your sleep to earn you money?
Well if you have a ‘real world’ shop, if you make something, import something or in any way have items you can pop in the post; you could be selling online while you lie in your bed.
AsOne can build a fully featured eCommerce solution integrated into your existing social network for under £4000? Be up and running in weeks and...
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Commerce brought to you by the letters E, M & S
To complete the Commerce week today is all about the letter ‘S’ as in sCommerce. We have talked about eCommerce (electronic commerce) and mCommerce (mobile commerce, also electronic) and no it is the turn of sCommerce or social commerce.
It is to be expected that sCommerce is becoming more popular as the social media platforms it is driven by gain influence. Bit is sCommerce simply...
November 2011
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Have you used your phone to get a better deal?
Have you ever used your smartphone to check prices before making a purchase? Its quick and easy and ensures you are getting the best price. Because of this ‘quick check’ mCommerce is becoming big news.
While checking prices it is easy simply complete the purchase on your phone. In the Christmas shopping rush you might even complete the process before you get served. Its part of the...
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Online Sales Soar while High Street Suffers
Over the last few weeks the news has been occupied with the downturn in sales for high street stores. The Arcadia Group, which runs many of the well known high street chains such as Topshop, Wallis, BhS, Burtons, Evans and Dorothy Perkins, has announced that it will close 250 to 260 stores over the next few years when their leases expire, mostly on the UK’s high streets.
Retailers are...
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Ofcom recognises AsOne's Contribution to Radio...
The following is taken from the Latest Ofcom report for Community radio and reports the positive impact the AsOne designed and built Website and iPhone app has had on the station as well as how it compares favourably to the more wealthy commercial stations.
The launch of the new Tameside Radio website has been instrumental in driving traffic to the site. The site contains news and presenter...
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British Baker's Groupon Mistake
A Reading (UK) cake baker potentially lost up to £25,500 from its profits this year because of a poorly conceived collaboration with a discount voucher website Groupon.
Need a Cake in Woodley is run by Rachel Brown and has made a loss on over 100,000 cupcakes they made to fulfil a Groupon voucher deal. The US based Groupon is a ‘crowd deal’ website offering vouchers to subscribers on...
“”Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread” well said by...”
Are you writing a worthy blog post for SEO?
If you are writing a blog post to capture the interest of new readers in the hope of them becoming customers at some point, then there are a few things you need to think about other than simply writing an article to assist in search engine optimisation (SEO).
Here are a few basic pointers to help you on your way:
Think of a keyword relevant to your product or service that you wish to write...
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Sweet Innovation Club
AsOne would like to thank the support of Higgins Miller Solicitors, Stockport as the 1st Innovation Club member and all the early adopters of our newly launched Innovation Club. Already we have welcomed a number of clients into our membership, which provides bespoke reports and guidance on digital and social media and marketing.
After the launch of their new website, practice partners Sarah...
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Have you thought about having an online Shop?
Contemporary Clutter had that very question when they talked to us here at AsOne Design.
Taking the decision to have an ecommerce website opens up a whole new market place, a great opportunity to increase your reach whatever your product.
We are pleased to announce that newly created Contemporary Clutter’s website has been launched this week enabling customers to start buying their...
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New Innovation Club website launched →
Following the success of our Innovation Club membership launched in July, our new Innovation Club website has gone live today. Members of Innovation Club benefit from a host of services aimed at improving online performance to ultimately increase sales for those businesses registered.
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More Social Media Hype
Isn’t it funny how every man and his dog is offering seminars on social media in business? How many events must one endure to realise its not for the faint hearted. Yes, in theory everyone is capable of investing such time into engaging in it and yes, most people after sitting through the first event on the benefits come out with an understanding of how to do it. But let’s not kid...
October 2011
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Is Networking Becoming Clouded?
I believe I have earned the right to have an opinion on this given I have been networking in one way or another for the benefit of business growth for the best part of 25 years. I have experienced all kinds of networking environments and in the main have thoroughly enjoyed it but of late I just feel its becoming tiresome. At first I thought it was just me, that fact that I had been doing it...
September 2011
5 posts
5 Ways Facebook's New Features Will Fuel Social... →
Christian Taylor is founder and CEO of Payvment and developer of the number-one Facebook ecommerce platform for brands, agencies and merchants, and the world’s only Facebook Shopping Mall. Many of the new features introduced at Facebook’s f8 Developer Conference last Thursday, such as a cu…
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What can I do to increase business on the run up...
With Christmas here before you can say Jack Robinson, here are ten things you can do to increase your sales potential and boost your figures for a Merry Christmas.
Remember Your Customers
Reward Loyalty
Incentivise
Up Sell
Samples
Social Networking
Newsletters
eCommerce
Delivery
Understanding Your Numbers
1. Remember Your Customers
Many businesses think that a sure way of increasing...
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Join the Innovation Club
Let AsOne look after you with [link innovationclub site] Innovation Club [/link], our proactive members only club that gives you confidence and support for your business and your website.
What is Innovation Club?
Innovation Club is piece of mind. Piece of mind that your website, product or service is in good hands with the attention and expertise only 10 years of success can bring. Innovation...
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Social Media, who’s Online?
With so much focus on social media and the need to embrace it to improve and increase business the same hesitation continues to raise its head; “my customers don’t use Facebook”.
You know what? They are probably right, because those potential customers who do use Facebook are shopping somewhere else, Somewhere that does embrace social media. Lets look into who is using social media.
The Office...
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Build your own Business Website?
You have seen the adverts, had the emails and will probably have been told that you can get cheaper websites online than going to a website design agency … well its all true, with one big BUT!
You will no doubt want to appear in the search results on Google? You probably want the best chance of a high position? Well if you go down the template route from the large suppliers your website...
July 2011
3 posts
Showing support to culture in Tameside!
Last summer’s proms in the park in Tameside was a huge success, not to mention a great evening of entertainment for all the family. As hundreds of others found their spot, we staked our claim on a little area on the hillside facing the stage and set out our picnic of goodies. Its that time again - you can offer your support and join us in buying tickets to this years fab event; view full...
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Google Panda Update
There has been a lot of talk about the ‘new’ Google Panda update. This is a change to the Google filtering used to rank sites. The update is designed to hurt the sites that try to cheat or use what is called ‘black hat’ techniques to get to the top. The people it is affecting badly are the sites with traditionally high traffic and rankings. If they have used sneaky methods to inflate...
May 2011
4 posts
Are You Location Aware?
Have you stamped your mark on Google Places? Got a Facebook Place? What about a Yelp account? If not you could be missing out on some new customers who are using these and other location aware services.
Marking your business location or locations available to find on the major location services could see your companies brand reach new audiences and influence the ‘holy grail’ of Google ranking....
What kind of cookie can’t you eat?
The Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK is responsible for upholding public information and privacy rights. In a recent update it announced a change to the law on how websites can use cookies coming into force on 26 May 2011. [ external link to ICO website ]
The cookies it is concerned with are not the edible kind. They are small data files that contain information about your movements...
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AsOne Shortlisted for Pride of Tameside Business...
AsOne have been shortlisted and are in the final three in the category Innovative business of the year. We are proud to have our years of innovation and creativity in Tameside recognised. Good luck to all those shortlisted in all categories.
March 2011
6 posts
As One creates caring identity for Salvere | News... →
Titanic advice about eNewsletters
eNewsletters are a great way to promote your company and website but are you aware that the promotional exercise they perform is just the tip of the iceberg?
The data that lurks beneath the informative e-newsletters you issue to your customers and clients is huge – and can help you market your business more effectively.
e-newsletters can be tracked closely to build up a profile of your market...
The Third Sector needs commercial marketing!
SOCIAL Enterprises might be not for profit organisations but they still need to promote and market themselves through clever branding, on-line marketing and websites.
AsOne Design has just completed the brand creation for one of the Government’s new pathfinder mutuals – a Cabinet Office initiative designed to promote the Big Society principles of communities taking control of services.
AsOne...
Top tips for getting bums on seats!
We love it when a good marketing plan comes together – especially when it’s one of our own!
We staged a free social media event to show businesses how to use social media and why they should be using it – and we were massively over-subscribed.
We set ourselves a target of getting 30 people there and ended up with 48.
We’ll share the marketing secrets behind how we did it – and how you could do...
Radio station launches AsOne iPhone app
WE’VE put our iPhone app expertise to use on the streets of Tameside.
We’ve upgraded an app which we originally produced for Tameside Radio last year and added some fabulous new features.
Tameside Radio asked us to create an IPhone app so that their listeners could hear their station broadcast on-the-go live through their iPhones.
We did. And the app met with a huge response after its launch –...
February 2011
3 posts
Why pay to have an SEO analysis of your website?
When starting an SEO project, many people like to jump straight in and begin optimising their website immediately in order to see results as quickly as possible. After all, search engine optimisation is all about results. However, how can you expect to see results when you have no benchmark or plan for moving forward with your optimisation? This is where an SEO analysis can come in very handy...
Are you allergic to Social Media?
Get ready for an event not to be missed!
If you were at our last event last year you will know we are passionate about Social Media. At AsOne we know Social Media inside out and back to front – and we love it! But we know there are businesses who are missing out on many opportunities to do business and expand their client base simply because they’re not using Social Media to boost their marketing...
December 2010
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It's Christmas
Hopefully you got our Christmas email to wish you a merry Christmas and Happy New Year. If not you’re probably not on our mailing list, sorry. Anyway you also missed a shameless plug for our SNOWi app FREE for you to download as a little thank you and to help spread a little winter cheer.
Over the Christmas period our office will be available for emergency technical support only. From today...
Facebook and MySpace Together AsOne?
First it was the news that Facebook would become the killer of Gmail early last week, now Facebook are in the headlines again as they announce their new partnership with MySpace. It seems we can’t go more than a couple of days without mention of the online behemoth, let alone the hundred odd times we check it a day.
MySpace, who recently under went a radical overhaul of their user interface and...
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Press release!
The SNOWi app has been a huge success so far and we are very grateful for all the feedback we have been receiving.
SNOWi has been making guest appearances in different places of late but we are particularly happy to announce that SNOWi has been published on the official how do website as well as the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce site. Please check it out and let us know what you...
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Christmas!
“The Storm Is here.”
The SNOWi app is now available to download free, on the official Apple iTunes store. It’s a great app for the kids and keeps the adults entertained as well, so why not try it out today?
In two days we are already close to reaching 100 downloads, so please keep them coming.
This is only the start!
Your feedback is always very welcome, if you would...