Author: Rebecca Page

 Website Accessibility is a critically important area that every business owner with a website should be aware of and prioritising.  What is Web Accessibility?  Accessibility means that a disabled person can access or benefit from your website, and it is about ensuring that your website is inclusive, accessible and mindful of all users. Ultimately, you need to make sure that your website can be used by everyone - regardless of permanent or temporary disability.  Not only does this mean...

With online video surging over the past few years, it is now a fundamental part of building brand awareness with potential customers throughout every stage of their journey.  How Can YouTube Help Your Marketing Funnel?  It Will Motivate People  Video is a great resource for people that want to learn new skills, with 4 in 5 people saying that video allows them to do this. People like to watch videos for self-improvement, and being able to see real experiences...

LinkedIn is known for being one of the best Social Media platforms for B2B marketing - but what if you want to market B2C? Should you still use this platform?  The answer is yes. With over 260 million active users on LinkedIn - and 40 million of those being in decision-making positions - there is a large opportunity to connect with individuals.  Below are 7 ways to use LinkedIn in your marketing strategy.  1. Use Visuals   Drive traffic to your...

Building positive relationships with your target audience is key to building trust and boosting your reputation. It is essential to continuously build and maintain customer relationships. 4 Ways to Build Relationships With Consumers 1. Listen to Feedback Feedback can help you improve your marketing efforts. Gaining data driven insights can aid you to improve products and services, which in turn will help to increase conversions. A great way to do this is by looking at social media channels and review sites...

The hype around blogging may make you think that it is useful but not essential, but it is in fact critical for businesses. Below, we discuss some of the benefits of having a blog for your business.  Benefits of Having a Blog  1. Increase Traffic to Your Website  A blog gives users a reason to visit your website if you post quality content that gives value. Once users are on your website, they are likely to continue navigating across...

The purpose of an Ad is to be seen by your target audience, to make an impact and build brand awareness. But how do you know that your ad has been seen?  Viewability is a measure of if your ad has had chance to be seen, and provides metrics on the number of times the ad was actually seen by users. This helps marketers to identify campaign effectiveness, allowing them to improve the campaign to increase its...

Team meetings often get bogged down with the all familiar question of ‘what are you working on today?’, which although may be helpful, can be very time consuming. What’s more, your team should already know what the rest of their colleagues are working on, and Kanban is a great way to do this.  What is Kanban?  Kanban is a visual method for managing work and tasks, to maximise efficiency. When your team uses Kanban, it helps to reduce...

Along with lots of other businesses in the country, Siren Search has transitioned to Work From Home, to help keep our team, and others, safe and healthy. For us, it’s a chance to show how we trust the team, because unfortunately a lot of businesses don’t feel they can do this. What’s more, working in Marketing and using tools online to operate, means that we can operate 100% capacity remotely as we would in the office through...

When setting up a Google Ads campaign you set the average daily budget. This determines how much the campaign will spend on a daily basis. Sometimes Google will spend more per day and sometimes will spend under the daily budget but over the month it will even out. How Google spends the budget depends on which delivery option is chosen. Previously there were two choices: Standard Delivery The budget is distributed evenly throughout the day, therefore the budget...