Posts Tagged ‘marketing’

0205.13

Pipex px – Effective business to business websites: ‘giving the user what they want’

Posted by Lisa in Design

Pipex px is a company dedicated to ‘producing excellence’. This is no less the case when it comes to the organisation’s marketing and communication activities. It is important that all aspects of the Pipex offering infer quality in the mind of the audience and this is certainly the case in the way they market themselves online.

Sarah Raynor, Marketing and Communications Director at Pipex px, says she considers a successful online brand to be one that ‘makes your experience enjoyable and easy’. For Sarah concerns over user experience stem from dealing with confusing navigations, poor site performance and inadequate onsite information.

Any website that is promoting a product or service in the B2B market needs to carefully consider the nature of the majority of visits to the website. A B2B website will typically be used as a reference tool for those that have been referred to the business through an alternative channel. With the nature of the majority of visits to the site in mind, the journey a user takes on the website needs to be carefully mapped out. As one can see from the Pipex example, a good B2B website is one that really does make its calls to action prominent and accessible.

It is in this way that the Pipex team have ensured they give users to their website ‘what they want’.

0305.12

Introducing Olly and Optixmail

Posted by Amanda in Company News, Online Marketing

Hi there,

My name is Olly Harrison and I have just taken the reigns here at Optixmail, an exciting new business from the team at Optix Solutions. I thought I’d take a moment to tell you a little bit about myself and Optixmail.

Originally from Bath, I graduated from Exeter University in 2008 (Philosophy and Politics) and spent 4 years working my way through the ranks of the Sales and Marketing division of an IT corporation based in Oxfordshire. Outside of work I can be found surfing the North Devon coast (probably the finest surf in the world… probably) walking with my dog across Dartmoor or covering myself in tile adhesive as I continue my campaign to finish the bathroom.

On to business…

In my previous position I had been a keen advocate of driving customer engagement through online channels. A chance email encounter with Alastair at Optix Solutions led to a discussion about email marketing, which in turn led to many more discussions (not a surprise if you’ve ever met Alastair!). We both agreed that when done well, email marketing was an integral part of any organisations marketing toolkit, capable of delivering an exceptional return on investment, but it had to be done well.

As a Design and Online Marketing agency, Optix Solutions had developed Envirosend to cater for their clients email marketing needs. However, as Envirosend gained popularity it was clear that two things needed to happen;

1. The email marketing branch of Optix required additional focus and resource. (Me)

2. With a shift in focus it also made sense to create a separate business, structured specifically for the requirements of email marketing clients. (Optixmail)

So after much planning, preparation (and more discussion) we are very pleased to announce the launch of Optixmail, an Email Service Provider providing client’s with the most effective means of creating, deploying and analysing their email campaigns, resulting in a greater return on their marketing investment.

I think it’s good to talk, so if you’d like to go through your email marketing strategy or just get to know a little more about Optixmail then please do get in touch.

Thanks for reading,

Olly

Talk - 07850 312995

Email - olly@optixmail.co.uk

Twitter - @OptixMail

Web - http://www.optixmail.co.uk/

0202.11

Why you need to know about the changes to Website Regulation

Posted by Amanda in E-Commerce, News, Online Marketing

From the 1st of March 2011, marketing communication on websites will be regulated by the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority), the UK’s independent regulator of advertising.

According to the CAP (Committee of Advertising Practice), the ASA’s online remit has been extended to cover communication on organisations’ own websites (“regardless of sector, type of businesses or size of organisation”) as well as other non-paid-for space (such as profiles on Social Networks like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter) under their control. User-generated content will, however, fall within the remit if it is adopted and incorporated in any marketing materials.

What does this apply to?

Advertisements and other marketing communications that are directly connected with the supply or transfer of goods, services, opportunities and gifts, or which consist of direct solicitations of donations as part of their own fund-raising activities.

In practice, “directly connected with the supply or transfer of goods” could relate to a page on a site which markets a product which is available for sale. To comply, organisations must take care to ensure that the price matches that of the product depicted, and availability and delivery claims are correct.

“Directly connected with supply of service” is in relation to any statement made about the service, therefore claims such as “The fastest…” etc. will now be subject to these regulations.

 Explicitly excluded, according to CAP, are the following types of communication:

-       Press releases and other public relations material

-       Editorial content

-       Political advertisements

-       Corporate reports

-       Natural listings on search engine or price comparison site

-       “Heritage” advertising where the advertising is not part of the advertiser’s current promotional strategy and is placed in an appropriate context

The purpose of these new regulations is to ensure that all advertising is legal, decent, honest and truthful whenever they appear.

 For full details on the ASA’s online remit, please visit: http://www.asa.org.uk/Regulation-Explained/Online-remit.aspx or call us today on 01392 667766.