Are you fed up wading through Analytics to find the most popular pages on your site or Search Console to see your ranking in Google?

Ben share’s his method for consolidating your data into one place to enable you to easily track progress and follow how successfully your marketing goals are going.

During this week’s webinar we will be joined by Claire Walmsley-Moss who will help us find ways to make our business marketing more environmentally friendly and sustainable. No ‘greenwashing’ here!

We are joined by WordPress Security Expert, Tim Nash, who will talk through a recent security and performance audit on our website sharing advice on how we can protect and speed up WordPress.

Ben and Clare dive into our grab bag of questions we have received from clients and club members.

It’s your chance to put us in the hot seat and get your own marketing questions answered. If you would like to submit your own questions please contact Clare at [email protected].

Ben guides us through a checklist he uses on our client sites to make sure they are fast, secure and ready for action.

PR marketing is a great way to increase brand visibility, website traffic and is also a key element for SEO. In this webinar Heidi Chamberlain-Jones shares her method on how to perfect your PR marketing strategy including how to build relationships with key journalists.

We are joined by Bespoke By Laura and Poppins Tutoring to see how they are getting on with the improvements we gave them last month. Together we will run through an SEO Review of their website and offer tips and advice on how they can optimise their pages and get more traffic to their website.

Catherine Every shares her step-by-step process on how to write good web copy. Her presentation touches on how to decide on the structure of your website, how to research keywords and guidance on how to write great copy for your website.

We like working with Catherine on web projects as she understands how good copy can engage a reader and stimulate them into action.

Ben shares his method for developing a blog and content strategy which will help get your business found online.

We take a dive into Pinterest with Jonathan Pollinger and discuss how it could make a huge difference to your business particularly if you have a very visual product.

We invited SEO Expert, Chris Richard to review our new RI website! We don’t know exactly what ideas Chris will come up with but he always has insightful advice to improve our search ranking through his proven methods.

This webinar is ideal for those who are looking to tighten up page titles, tweak meta descriptions and trim the sitemap. It also fits neatly between our other webinars #6 SEO Strategy and #17 Google Search Console (GSC) walkthrough.

We have invited social media trainer, Jonathan Pollinger to introduce us to TikTok and share how it can build awareness of your business, help you to attract more customers, as well as boost sales and profits.

During this session we will look at a selection of different landing pages and check to see whether they are giving the right message, are user friendly and share some advice on how to improve them.

It’s important to take that step back and see your homepage through your customers eyes to make sure it is working in a way you intended.

Ben revisits LinkedIn Essentials to discuss some of the key ways people use it to get new business. This is an updated version of the 2019 presentation ‘Get more out of LinkedIn’.

In this episode we are joined by IMC Club Member Dave Hargest from Selmach Machinery. During this episode he shares how he used 360 Matterport to create his own 3D Virtual Tour to showcase the companies showroom and boost audience engagement.

Ben and Clare revisit the importance on gathering Five Star Reviews and discuss the best ways to get feedback for your business.

In this episode we take stock of our marketing, discussing the importance of evaluating the year before and why you should set goals for the year ahead.

Ben is joined by Club Member Nicky Ayers from Ecl-ips as they both dive into their marketing strategies and share what went well, what is still a work in progress, what goals we’re working towards and how we’re going to tackle them.

Ben is joined by Tom Balmont and Sirco to discuss why video is important in video marketing.

How to improve your websites usability to appeal to the widest possible audience.

Notes

Related content

• Every design has the potential to include and exclude customers
• Dieter Ram’s 10 Commandments of Good Design

From logging in to editing a page and posting a blog article Ben takes you step by step through setting up your WordPress website.

Notes

Related content

• #25 WooCommerce walkthrough – Inventive Marketing Club (GROUP) for Members
• #9 Blogging & Content Strategy – Inventive Marketing Club (GROUP) for Members

Why WordPress?

• Can get started for free on WordPress.com
• Completely flexible when self managed
• Plugins give it flexibility
• Best control over SEO
• Powers over 40% of the worlds websites
• Used by global brands
• Active community

How to use Instagram in your business, grow your audience and track progress.

Notes

Why are small businesses using photo sharing apps in marketing?

• Increasingly in popularity
• Businesses of all sizes and sectors are using it
• A great way to bring a visual element to your social media activity
• Reaching new audiences easier and quicker
• Sell products or services through the platform

Instagram as Marketing tool

• Who should use Instagram?

How to post

• Can only post using app
• Photos
• Video
• Importance of Stories & Reels
• Hashtag research

Planning Content

• Use your social media strategy for inspiration
• Variety is essential
• Post regularly
• Find inspiration from other accounts
• Consider including video

Tracking Progress

• Set Objectives to monitor progress
• Audience growth – size & quality
• Interaction – likes, comments, reach
• Performance on paid ads
• Sales of products
• Traffic to your website

Commit to action

What one action will you achieve over the next 30 days?

In this marketing webinar Ben shares how to use Facebook in your business to grow your audience and win customers.

Ben is joined by Benjamin Catley-Richardson (Brand Clear) to share how to be clear on your business brand. We walk through how to be easier noticed, easier to remember and easier to choose.

Ben shares three ideas that could help grow or even kick start your social media engagement. He has been developing the ideas over the years so you may already have heard a few of them but it’s always good to have a refresher.

Notes

Be Remarkable

How to create remarkable content that spreads further by working with others 

• Choose a social network you like 
• Where your audience hangs out 
• Reach out to your audience 
• Be remarkable 
• Be consistent
• Connect on a personal level 

Be the First to Follow

Understand how to attract people and create a movement 

Start a Social Tribe

Local businesses promoting local businesses on the web and through social media 

• Find your tribe 
• Follow your tribe
• Spend 15 a day minutes engaging 
• Recommend what you love 
• Feedback to improve 
• Don’t talk about yourself