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We were big advocates of Vida/TSO for years - but in all honesty speed and reliability issues have crept in. Support has slowed to a crawl. It now makes sense what with Heart being involved, we moved from them originally because of the above issues. Glad we're not in the hosting clients game any more! - Ed

Thanks Tim! And thanks Teo for posting.

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Personally I think UX is less important here - what do you want the visitor to do? Are you fielding calls or do you prefer email etc? Serve the option that suits your model.

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Facebook ada are not expensive. Boosting your post is expensive. Boost = burn your money. Custom audiences can be as cheap as 1pence per engagement! The only way you'll get organic reach is by others contributing via likes, comments and shares aka popularity! Without these triggers Facebook will not show your content. One of our retail clients gets more impressions for (certain) posts than they have total likes. So it can be done. B2B is different sure, stick to the 90/20 rule. 90% unique, interesting and valuable content, highly targeted to your audience. At the very most 10% content promotional. B2B arguably takes more time to build engagement but it's worth it - in fact I've hired a fulltime Social Media manager and we're rolling out social all day everyday very soon. Currently, like many, we overly automate and I don't like it.

Hello folks, long time no post. I'm currently in the process of hiring an assistant marketer to support my core staff, the assistant's primary focus for the last two quarters will be Social Media. Can anyone recommend online training course that focus on Social Media, perhaps you completed one yourself and have first hand experience? I don't mind paying, in fact I'd prefer to pay for a 'tutored' course as opposed to freebie self-learning. Appreciate any thoughts and experiences of this as I'll admit I've never personally done any 'online' training.

We use ActiveCollab hosted on a VPS. Software was £400 and the VPS is £50 per month with SSL. It's not the prettiest software but the feature set is comprehensive and our clients haven taken to it.

We listen to Radio 6 in the office - although I can't really hear it in my office. But then I like my own head space. Sometimes I run in and switch it to Jazz FM, because I'm a maverick.

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It's also negative SEO territory!

It's a London client (finance sector), I'm not going to bad mouth the previous agency publicly - all I will say is we'll do a better job. It looks like we'll be removing a good third or so of the links. Loads of 'SEO' directories and the like i.e. sites built with a link and nothing else in mind. The fact is you can't rely on placing links alone and that's why true SEO costs are rising. More time, effort and skill is required to meaningfully rank and maintain a websites footing (traffic). We use keyword ranks as a barometer not the end goal. I feel sorry for SEO freelancers in a way, there's five of us working on our accounts!

Doesn't surprise me, we've just inherited an account with a 5 figure spend and we're having to strip out the majority of the 'work'. Big reputable agency... who we discovered have more sales staff than technical.

Odd. DeepCrawl and Linkdex are completely different products serving different purposes.

Thanks to all who voted for us!

Hey, I'm just replying to the discussion and points being raised.

I made dramatic changes to the business end of last year to ensure quality and customer satisfaction. Our USP is 100% transparency. ALL projects now run through our central PM software and clients have FULL access to their project. How many agencies do that? We have no room for complacency, if anything the above USP increases our productivity, accountability and therefore quality. We punch way above our weight and I'll stand by that, every time. edited: because I broke then quote!

I didn't mean to misrepresent or suggest we were. The team isn't young. Sure the grads are fresh but they are there as trainees. The core roles are served by guys that have considerable experience. One of my SEO's has years of agency experience for one of the larger agencies and with a great track record. My PPC the same and my digital marketer used to work for one of the biggest phone networks. Trust me, it's a very experienced team! ... and of course, I know some stuff too.

It's a team effort and therefore a team incentive.

I put a whiteboard in the office to track monthly progress too.

Or just do what I've done, introduce a profit share bonus scheme - it's one hell of a motivator!

ActiveCollab (branded and hosted on a VDS) and loving it!

Exactly. What a degree shows (and to a lesser extend proves) to me as an employer is that the candidate has applied themselves. The assumption is a certain level of discipline and aptitude, particularly in the case of a 1st. I also like core subjects such as maths and languages, to me they are worth more. My personal opinion of course. Now it must be noted that outside of Law, Medical and Engineering (or similar degree-led professions) I don't hold degrees in much high-regard. I left school at 17 and yet I've never struggled; I've been a employer, hirer or firer since I was in my early 20's. A degree is a way in for people whore aren't like me and took a different path. Neither is particularly right or wrong of course, however most of the people hiring in my experience are the ones without degrees and have a mix of experience, drive and raw talent/capacity. That said, I appreciate certain professions are degree-led and it's a requirement to even get started.