Brainstorm Design Blog

With many of us working full schedules, we know how difficult it can be for you to get out of the office. With this in mind, Brainstorm Digital are proud to announce our first online social media seminars.

Like a real seminar, you'll be able to interact with me, ask any questions you have and even talk to other delegates. All you need is an internet connection and a webcam. To give you a taste of what we have in store for you....

• Wed 9 May: How to engage with customers and build loyalty on Facebook
• Thu 10 May: Using LinkedIn groups to connect with potential clients
• Mon 14 May: How to convert Twitter followers into clients
• Mon 14 May: How to develop a Twitter strategy for your brand
• Tue 15 May: How to use LinkedIn to get introduced to new clients
• Fri 25 May: How to promote your brand on your LinkedIn company page
• Tue 29 May: Optimising your LinkedIn profile to get you noticed
• Thu 31 May: How to promote your brand on Facebook
• Tue 12 June: How to convert Twitter followers into clients
• Thu 14 June: Developing a Twitter strategy for your brand
• Thu 14 June: How to use LinkedIn to get introduced to new clients
• Tue 19 June: How to promote your brand through your LinkedIn company page
• Thu 21 June: How to use Youtube to promote your brand

If you would like to view our full list of seminars, click on the button below (site requires registration). Alternatively, please call us on 020 8953 8820 or email us at info@brainstormdesignltd.com.

This guest blog has been written by Tim Watson

There are many excellent social media blogs providing great content to keep you up-to-date with the latest social media marketing trends and advice.

SocialMediaExaminer is one of these sources of great information. So its no surprise they have 47,513 followers on Twitter and 76,391 people have liked them on Facebook, however they have a secret weapon.

In fact this same secret weapon is used by the top 7 of the top ten best Social Media experts as judged by SocialMediaExaminer themselves that they picked from over 600 nominations.

So, what is the secret weapon? Email communications! Whilst their Twitter and Facebook stats are impressive, their email following is bigger at 129,329 people.

They are so keen to have you as a subscriber that the email sign up gets the prime real estate on their home page.

In the world of social media, a few months is a long time, so it may come as something of a surprise if I told you that Pinterest is the next big social media phenomenon, and that it has already celebrated its 2nd birthday.

Help, what's Pinterest?!

Pinterest is a social photo sharing website. It allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections of photos of any subject. The sites mission statement is to "connect everyone in the world through the 'things' they find interesting." 

Development of Pinterest began in December 2009, and the site launched as a closed beta in March 2010. By February of this year, Pinterest had over 10 million users. The majority of Pinterest's users are women.

It’s finally been announced! – the Facebook Timeline will be rolling out for Facebook business pages over the coming months.  This will give your business the ability to showcase your history, events & content in a more visually attractive way.

From today, if you manage a business page on Facebook you’ll be able to preview your new Facebook Timeline & begin making changes. You can already see this on our Facebook page! A major feature of your Facebook page will be the new ‘cover photo’ – This is a great opportunity to introduce users to your brand and/or campaigns.

With the recession continuing and bank loans ever harder to come by, even firms lacking a marketing or sales budget can attract new clients.

Straightened economic times may seem to constrain business opportunities – yet there are solutions around, and one is to get on LinkedIn. Not only is it (mostly) free but it enables you to make direct contact with your target audience. Described as the “Facebook for business people”, LinkedIn has over 100 million users in more than 200 countries, and it enables you to get introduced to new clients without having to make cold calls or advertise.  

Want to learn more about how to use social media to promote your business?

Our 1-day training seminar will show you how to promote your business on social media and why it takes as little as 15 minutes of your time each day. 

This hands-on workshop will show you how to set up and use the main social media tools, focusing on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. We will show you real-life case studies of how social media can be used to engage with potential as well as existing customers.

And for a limited time only, you have the opportunity to attend one of our courses worth £199 for free!

Click here if you would like to be entered for our prize draw

With London 2012 less than six months away, do you have a strategy to exploit the likely business opportunities? Here are just a few random examples of services that spectators will be looking for:

• Tours of London
• Accommodation near the venues
• Umbrellas for spectators
• Food for spectators that have special dietary needs e.g. Kosher or Halal food

We are excited to announce an important change in our company. From now on, Brainstorm Design is going to be known as Brainstorm Digital.

This reflects the new and exciting direction in which we have evolved over the past few years. From a beginning purely designing websites, we now focus on helping clients with a broader online strategy, showing them how to use digital marketing to bring in new business.  We have become experts in search engine optimisation, pay-per-click campaigns, email campaigns, and social media such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. And of course, the websites that we build are designed with one purpose in mind: converting visitors into paying clients. 

Brainstorm Design will be closed between Christmas Eve and New Years Day. We close on Friday 23rd December at 2.30pm and re-open on Tuesday 3rd January at 9am.

In the event of an urgent enquiry, please call our out of hours emergency number, 07958 358793.

We wish our customers a Merry Christmas and a successful new year.