After an absence of some 18 months, dating back to August 2020, it felt appropriate to relaunch our Marketing Matter blog (and our social media feeds) with an explanation. When Covid-19 first flared up in the UK almost two years ago, on 16 March 2020,...
It’s fair to say that marketing terms are often misunderstood. Just to be clear, PR is a subset of marketing. It is not a different discipline. However, it is a bespoke skill that requires specific expertise, just like any specific marketing medium. PR covers a wide...
Some digital marketing agencies will tell you that SEO planning is primarily a technical activity, inferring that clients are unable to provide any meaningful input into their search engine optimisation strategy. Whilst it is undeniably true that SEO is a technical process to some degree, it’s...
Data is useless without insight. There, we said it. As blunt as that. But we know it, and deep down you know it too. It’s one of the most significant pain points we face as marketers. Collecting so much data that we can’t actually tell...
How to Brief a Marketing Agency The purpose of this blog is to help businesses to brief their marketing agency better, in order to end up with the best possible outcome. As an integrated marketing agency which works with clients of varying levels of marketing knowhow, the...
Are you looking for a marketing agency as passionate as you? At Abacus Marketing, we pride ourselves on providing a professional, transparent and high quality service to companies of every size. Not only do we work with lots of ambitious SMEs and start-up enterprises, but we...
Marketing Review The New Year has well and duly arrived, and it’s time to get back to work. It’s quite understandable to want to throw oneself straight back into the deep end – especially if you have taken a fair amount of time out (quite rightly!)...
With the new year fast approaching, it’s time to get ready for 2020. And from a marketing perspective, it always helps to be aware of any trends that are likely to have an impact on how you market your business to prospects and customers. So,...
Introduction What is PR? Public relations refers to how a company communicates with people who are stakeholders in its business. This includes everyone from prospects and customers, to shareholders and corporate partners, to journalists, influencers, bloggers, vloggers and of course the general public. PR is so...
What is event marketing? Event marketing can encompass a whole host of different types of events – but, in short, event marketing is the promotion of a product or a brand through in-person interactions with your target audience. Trying to successfully navigate the world of event marketing...