Category Archives: Strategy

Musings about agency life, the client agency relationship and the market

Digital Britain?

About 9 or so years ago I attended a conference in the USA where BT ‘proudly and confidently’ announced from the platform that they were not going to invest in installing another single km of fibre optic cable into the ground because … Continue reading

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IT v Marketing

Convergence is with us as technology takes us into a new era and the Internet starts to make its mark. This sets a real challenge for business as we need to quickly adapt to the new techniques and technologies for … Continue reading

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How to track the ROI of your digital marketing – perfectly!

ROI, ROI, ROI! it is the battle cry of the digital age isn’t it..? the perfect marketing medium, measurable to the last penny!? Well at least it should be.. however in my experience and in the experience of many of … Continue reading

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Why SEO agencies shouldn’t exist! And why their days are numbered?

Controversial I know.. but before all you SEO’s out there leap down my throat, please bear in mind I have said shouldn’t implied in this is the acknowledgement that you do and indeed I run my own SEO agency so … Continue reading

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Taking Advantage of the Internet ….. Now!

Credit crunch, recession, economic downturn, media frenzy, fear …… pain!! This is what ‘almost’ every business is now experiencing and the associated ‘pain’ is a great teacher! Nothing new here … BUT …. What this often forces is knee jerk responses … Continue reading

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Impact of the Internet on Client/Agency engagement?

A Chairman’s perspective ……… An internal debate at a recent BM Board meeting revolved around the frustration experienced by our management team regarding delays then being experienced with certain clients that were impacting both our ability to deliver AND particularly … Continue reading

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Email Marketing – Doing it right!

Email marketing is not about a single mail shot which you send from time to time in the hope of achieving meaningful results. As with Search Engine Optimisation trust and relevance has to be created with your recipient base to … Continue reading

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Time for a new agency model?

Hi all and welcome to the Bloom Media blog! I’ve invited all the team here to post and would welcome our peers and clients to also share their thoughts on all things digital and beyond. I thought i’d get stuck … Continue reading

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