JDR Group's 'Digital Prosperity' Blog

HubSpot is an award-winning software platform created to help you manage your online marketing, your sales and customer service. You can think about it as a one-stop-shop for everything related to lead generation, customer acquisition, CRM, digital campaign management, and customer service.

So you have decided to set up a website for your business – congratulations! Now that you have started to visualise how your business website will look and all the benefits it will bring, chances are you’ll also want to know when it will be up and running. So how long should you expect your new website to take?

In the digital economy we live in, having a business website is a must. However, having a website alone is not enough: customers will not flock to your site just because you have it; they will browse around and choose the company with the most compelling online presence, and not just through Google either. B2B enquiries now frequently come through LinkedIn or Facebook as well as the company website, so if your website isn’t delivering the results you expected, it’s time to check how it fares when compared to your competitors.

Marketing automation is software that tracks visitors to your website, and can send emails or texts, create CRM tasks or create internal alerts automatically based on predefined rules. Common marketing automation platforms used by SMEs include Sharpspring, HubSpot and Infusionsoft, and they can be used in a number of ways:

As business growth specialists with more than 10 years of experience with search engine optimisation (SEO), we're often asked if there's any benefit to buying a number of keyword-based domain names and automatically redirecting people who visit them to a single, main website. The short answer, in terms of SEO, is no – but that doesn't mean the tactic can't be advantageous in other ways. Let's examine the issue more closely.

This B2C home improvement company were no strangers to digital marketing but had become disillusioned after their experiences with a PPC agency who failed to deliver. This client had built themselves a website in-house, and employed a team member to maintain it but decided to give outsourcing their marketing one last chance, with spectacular results...

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As a business owner, you’re surely doing your best to keep up to date with any technologies that can boost your sales. But sometimes it may feel like you’re navigating a never-ending maze of unfamiliar names, acronyms, and products. In your research, you may have come across CRM and marketing automation software, which can be an invaluable tool helping you achieve business growth goals.

Diversifying can be the road to success when it comes to business growth, whether that's in terms of introducing new products, services, or even brands. Do you really need a separate website for each of your SME's innovations, however, or should you promote them all on a single domain? Let's take a look at some of the things you'll need to consider in order to work out which approach to take.

A management buy-out is often an opportunity to take a company in a new direction and can also be a chance to raise the value of your business. However, management buyouts don’t come without their challenges and they can be turbulent.

Facebook advertising can be a powerful lead generation tool for both consumer-focussed AND B2B companies. However, with more than two billion people actively using the platform, it's vital to target the correct members if you want to get results.