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If You’re Not First, You’re Last – The Online Battle to be Number One

In case you are unfamiliar with Will Ferrell’s character Ricky Bobby, in the movie Talladega Nights, and his ever endearing catch phrase “If you’re not first, you’re last”, it is now quickly becoming the motto for our online marketplace. Where once the prime real estate on the high street resulted in the bulging bank balance, it is now the position on search engines results pages where the battle for dominance has continued.

Due to the massive explosion of the web and in particular online shopping, those top positions on Google can … Read on »

Starting a business and Social Media -Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust

Edinburgh based Social Media marketer Greg Kelly of Inventive Management speaks in front of Microsoft Vice President Bob McDowell and Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust about Generation Y and starting a business by leveraging Social Media

There goes the neighbourhood: how the cultural gatekeepers of mass media have lost their mojo

There was once a time, not very long ago, when the power the media held over the common man was as far reaching as the Roman Empire. With a flick of their golden quills, they had the ability to bewitch the masses into packing out cinemas across the country, and the unyielding influence to make novels fly off the shelves and onto every man, woman and child’s bedside table. However, thanks to our very own rebellious leader, the social media revolutionary Che Zuckerberg, we are now able for the first … Read on »

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Laura McGregor
Alistair Robinson

In 2009 we decided to leave the corporate world and set up on our own. We wanted to be our own bosses, not so that we could sit at home in pyjamas, but because we believed that our skills were under-utilized, and we wanted to work with passionate, hard-working people who were not just cogs in a corporate machine.

We find the freedom and variety of small business life endlessly exciting, and we believe that the passion and hard work that prevails amongst small businesses contribute great value to the community

We also feel that services such as email marketing and quality web design have until now been targeted mainly at big business.

The proliferation of free and reasonably-priced quality software and web services means there is no reason why small businesses should not be able to make use of the best of modern web technology.

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