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Three is the ‘Better’ Number!
Date:: 27/09/2011

Three certainly is a better number for award winning local brand agency, Better as it celebrates both its third birthday and three years of solid growth.

Since its formation in 2008, in the midst of the economic recession, the Stokesley-based agency has gone from strength to strength. Offering brand, creative, marketing and web services it is now regarded as one of the leading agencies in the North East. This year has seen Better win a number of high profile contracts with clients such as Five Lamps, Business & Enterprise Group, Northumbria University, The Trout Hotel, The Assembly Rooms, Cleveland Fire Brigade and Gentoo. (more…)

Social media, mobile marketing, SEO, CRO, web analytics…get up to date on it all and more at ‘Marketing: the art of’ 2011.
Date:: 21/09/2011

Date: 10 November 2011
Venue: The Sage Gateshead
Time: 9.00am – 4.15pm

This year’s ‘Marketing: the art of‘ conference will give give you expert insights into how to dramatically improve your digital marketing strategy.

A number of keynote speakers will be there to inspire you throughout the day, and local marketing experts (including our MD, Mark Easby) will help you to explore how you can develop your own digital marketing strategies effectively to win new customers, build brand recognition and grow your business, in a series of interactive workshops. (more…)

Fighting Fit Conference, The Hilton, Gateshead 2011
Date:: 15/09/2011

If you know me you’ll know fighting fit doesn’t refer to my personal training plan! Following the success of the popular “Keep your Business Fighting Fit” workshops, Business Link hosted a one day conference, “Fighting Fit 2011″ yesterday at The Hilton, Newcastle Gateshead.

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Researcher can Explain rise in revenues
Date:: 18/08/2011

A RESEARCH specialist is set to pass the £1m turnover mark for the first time after picking up new public sector and financial services contracts despite the widespread cuts.

Newcastle-based Explain Research said revenues in the first quarter of the year – which are based on fees – leapt by 44%, largely on the back of contracts with the Yorkshire and Skipton Building Societies. (more…)

Keep Your Business Fighting Fit Conference
Date:: 03/08/2011

Many conferences make the claim that they are designed for their audiences, but -Business Link has literally asked attendees at the popular “Keep Your Business Fighting Fit” series of workshops “What do you need to be Fighting Fit?”, using the feedback to design this year’s Fighting Fit programme.

Over 50% of delegates attending the workshops answered “Social Media”. With such interest in this area, the programme was put together to include a Master Class on the subject delivered by Stokesley based brand & design agency, Better. Declan Metcalfe, Marketing Director is delivering the master class which will give the big picture on Social Media, looking at strategy, case studies of successes and how to make Social Media really work for your business and include Better’s own story of success. (more…)

Winning New Business: Developing your Digital Footprint through Social Media
Date:: 02/08/2011

Date: Thursday 13th October 2011
Time: 8:30am – 11:30am
Location: Gateshead College , NE8 3BE

Tweeting, hash tags, mashable, SEO, tiny URLs – these are all terms that a few years ago didn’t even exist, yet today they play a fundamental part in organisations’ marketing strategies. Due to the popularity of this workshop in 2010, Service Network is repeating (and enhancing!) this event which will take you through the step by step process of developing a digital footprint for your business. A digital footprint is a collection of activities and behaviours recorded when an organisation interacts in a digital environment. It includes the recording of activities such as clicks on e-newsletters, visits to a web-page, tweets and Facebook updates. (more…)

Embracing openness and transparency
Date:: 17/06/2011

How transparent should companies be? There’s an argument that many brands aren’t getting it right.

Sometimes the amount of information released to it’s customers is more than they need or want whilst others hold too much to themselves. A glut, feast or famine, getting the balance and tone right is vitally important as Martin Thomas, author of Loose suggests, social media needs only three actions to work well: be human, be responsive and be open.A great post written by Amy Duff in Director Magazine explores the challenges faced by businesses and governments in this age of enlightened, connected consumers. (more…)

Pia Melin, CEO, SAPSA (Swedish SAP User Group)
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Even though it came with a bit of travelling it was worth the hours. Better have proven their name and we are now another happy client added to their list. Knowing exactly what we wanted to obtain, but not how, Better guided us to a suitable solution for our new website. (more…)

James Brown, Media Director, Crafters Companion
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Working with Better is so refreshing. Their natural enthusiasm is evident from day one and throughout any project, you really feel like Better are giving your brand the same level of love and care as you would. Better have clearly invested a lot of time an effort into their workflow and project management, both of which are exceptional. (more…)

Thinking about Thinking Digital Conference 2011
Date:: 27/05/2011

It’s like when the fair leaves town or your favorite show finishes on TV, the come down is always hard in the days immediately after something momentous finishes. And so it was with Thinking Digital 2011. (more…)