2012 is looking great following a strategic acquisition.


In December 2011, Generate UK were delighted to complete on the acquisition of Web on High, an 11 year old digital marketing agency based in Newbury, Berkshire. Following this announcement, Generate UK will be moving to new premises at Read more

Instant Flood Sandbags : The latest technology


Generate UK recently purchased the rights to Instantsandbags and in doing so designed and developed a new website called Instantfloodsandbags. The product itself was not only innovative and new to the market but it's ingenious space saving design and it's Read more

Digital Marketing Tips

We all hate doing it, but know it’s important – Allocating Website Content

Posted on by Mike in Digital Marketing Tips, Internet Marketing | 6 Comments

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Excerpt: High quality informative and original content is the key to encouraging readership and valuable response to your website. We advise our clients that the best designed site with graphics and interactive features will fall short to provide professional results if it is devoid of content. You have heard the adage that “Content is King”. It has never been more true for web marketing than it is today given changes to analytics and their impact on page rank. There needs to be substance to your site to make it one worth bookmarking and visiting. It needs to have content that is reflective of your authority in the niche. There are many different types of content to consider when building your website. Text only copy is important however it should not be the only source of information on your site. There are a variety of multimedia options to incorporate that will inspire reactions or propagation of your information through social media channels. But how much multimedia on a site is too much? What is effective versus distracting to your customers? Where do you allocate your valuable content as a resource? Website Copy Creating static and informative subpages that discuss your product or service is the first stop in your allocation plan. These pages are important because they provide a framework on the purpose the site as well as the key selling features of your business or organisation. The articles should be flawless organic content which is engaging and intuitive to your marketing and brand objectives….


SEO Tips for Social Media Sites

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Excerpt: A 2011 report on social media use was released in December by comScore which is an analytic agency headquartered in Virginia, United States with more than twenty five locations in North and Latin American, Europe and Asia Pacific.  It is a global authority on the metrics of the digital domain and a valued source for “marketing intelligence” worldwide.  By utilising surveys and analysing web analytics and net usage it is a tremendous resource for business, advertising and digital marketers. The white paper published “It’s a Social World: Top 10 Need-to-Knows About Social Networking and Where It’s Headed”  is a must read for any e-commerce professional business stratifying social media for 2012. Some interesting social media statistics from 2011 include: Networking sites now reach 82% of the worlds Internet population (aged fifteen and up) There are currently 1.2 billion regular internet users around the world Microblogging sites such as Twitter and Tumblr reached 1 in 10 Internet Facebook accounts for 1 in every 7 minutes spent online worldwide SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is the science of improving the visibility and traffic of a website in organic search results to raise ranking in search engines. This enables the content of your business site to be placed in the fast lane of internet traffic for maximum exposure.  SEO techniques can be applied to a variety of types of searches including video and image content.  If you are comfortable with the importance of SEO in the success of your website you may not have considered that it plays an important function…


Shifts in the PC Market suggest changing times for Digital Marketing

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Excerpt: Last week Hewlett Packard, the PC and netbook maker purchased Cambridge based server company Autonomy for £6.7 billion. The move signals a change of direction for the PC giant away from creating PC’s and netbooks, and into providing services for business, a signal of a decline in growth of the PC market in the light of a rise in the numbers of mobile devices, including tablet devices means that demand for PC’s is not quite what it was. HP themselves have been aware of this decline for quite a while. Back in May, HP CEO Léo Apotheker said that, “The consumer PC market has continued to be challenging. Even though our consumer PC expectations had been cautious, the steepness of our Q2 decline is greater than what we expected.” Added to this, was the poor PC sales announced last week, with an 18.9% decline in sales from this point last year. These stats also declared that HP are the largest seller of PC’s in Western Europe, shifting 3.2 million units, though this was still a decline of 6.1% of sales from 2010. Meike Escherich, an analyst for Gartner who carried out the research, claimed that, “The much anticipated uptake in the professional segment, in the wake of migration to Windows 7, was subdued by the negative economic outlook. PC shipments in the professional segment declined 9 percent in the second quarter of 2011. The biggest decline continued to come from the consumer segment which decreased 27 percent year on year.” So…


Working with your audience and boosting site traffic – How it’s done

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Excerpt: The following article has been contributed by Martin from The Goon Blog, one of the most popular and successful Arsenal blog sites online. At first I had no idea how to become one of the big writers in the Arsenal blogging world. Other websites weren’t so much rivals, more like icons, sites that you just could not get near. Fast forward a year or two and now regularly people leave comments on my website and Twitter that my site is probably one of the best around for Arsenal news and opinion. It is humbling and the rise of the site has far exceeded any expectations I ever had for it. The keystone to getting good traffic is getting on the best news feeds. The boss when it comes to football related news is NewsNow, the worlds biggest news portal for all issues, international affairs, sport, politics, environmental issues, it really does have it all. Once your site is on there, your foundations have been built. Now comes the tricky bit, but without it you don’t stand a chance on getting onto the news feeds that will give your website the readers to thrive on. Content. Not just any content. Good, informative content that will leave readers wanting to come back for more. Your website has to fill a niche that hasn’t been touched. I managed that by blending in opinion and cold hard information that I got occasionally from a couple of well-placed contacts that I had met, both online and various functions. That…


Digital Marketing Seminar, Berkshire

Posted on by John King in Digital Marketing Tips, Events, Seminars | 4 Comments

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Excerpt: At Generate UK, we love to impart our knowledge. It helps other businesses with their online marketing and it demonstrates all of the great services that we provide. June 30th saw us present yet another of our locally renowned seminars at the beautiful Donnington Grove Country Club, this time in the Kennet suite. Around fifty delegates from companies spanning a whole variety of industries attended, including people from CSC, Hyperbole, Verbatim and many, many more. We kicked off the seminar with some light refreshments and networking and with the excellent weather, the mood was fantastic. Once much of the coffee had disappeared, our attendees were ushered into our very own Mr Joe Baily’s introduction and presentation. Joe discussed the way in which we here at Generate UK operate and work with clients, as well as discussing the underlying foundations and technologies that should support a business’ online marketing activity. Will your CMS grow with your company, or will it stop working as soon as your growth explodes? Does your marketing roadmap include the latest social media platforms? Are you missing out on any key marketing activities, like e-mail marketing for example? This helped open some eyes and hopefully encouraged our attendees to look at the road ahead, why update your strategy now… When the wheels of the underlying vehicle will fall off in the near future? You might as well get both right now to save a lot of heart ache and expense in the long term! Michael Robinson then took the…


Online Marketing – B2B or B2C?

Posted on by Ian Fergusson in Digital Marketing Tips, Internet Marketing | 1 Comment

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Excerpt: Online marketing for businesses and marketing to end customers is different. A person buying a product for their company has different “buying standard” compared to a person buying something for himself. There are profound differences and one of them is the emotional experience. These points should be remembered when developing online marketing activities. B2B and B2C marketing is used to differentiate the internet commerce business. There are companies that sell primarily to businesses while others sell primarily to end customer. Marketing programs are the same for each type of business but they differ in executions and the outcomes of the marketing activities. B2C (Business to Consumer) marketing campaigns are concerned with the transaction. They are usually shorter because they need to capture the customer’s attention immediately. These campaigns usually offer special deals such as discounts and vouchers that can be used both online and in the store. Their goal is to get their customers to buy immediately. B2B (Business-to-Business) marketing process is longer and is more involved. Although its goal is to turn prospects into customers, a B2B company needs to focus on building long-term relationships with their clients. They use marketing to educate their customers about their products. In an email campaign, you usually see contact information for offline transactions and contain more information on the features of the product, benefits and the prices. This marketing strategy is usually the first step, and it usually includes direct mail, telemarketing, and newsletters and follows up by a sales representative who will discuss…


Five Advantages Of Internet Marketing

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Excerpt: The internet became increasingly popular in the late 1990s and turned into a mass marketing medium. The online advertising industry grew from nearly 1 billion in 1997 to a projected $147 Billion in 2012. Advertising through the internet has proved to be an effective marketing strategy for a lesser cost compared to the conventional ways of advertising. It revolutionised how businesses reach out to their potential customers as the number of internet users from around the globe continues to rise and connection speeds continue to go faster and faster. Marketing online is a cost effective way to market efficiently and effectively. Some of these benefits can be seen right away while some tend to happen further down the line – benefits that build upon those that are already in place. Listed below are some of the benefits of online marketing; 1. One advantage of marketing online versus the traditional marketing such as placing advertisements on the television, radios, magazines and newspapers is that you can change them anytime. By keeping track of your ads’ progress, if it is effective or not, you can decide to change a part of the ad, any wording or graphic, or the whole ad altogether, without any problems. 2.  Marketing online gives you real time figures and statistics. This can help you in determining your marketing campaign’s performance to help you in making key decisions that could mean the success or failure of your business. Although there are ways to track performance of traditional marketing efforts, results could…


The Social Media Revolution

Posted on by Ian Fergusson in Digital Marketing Tips, Internet Marketing, Social Media | 2 Comments

Is Social media just a fad that has developed in the last couple of years, or is it the biggest shift since the industrial revolution?  To get a grasp on how huge Social media is think of Facebook as a country. If Facebook were a country it would be the 4th largest in the world just behind the United States of America. Watch the video below to try and get a grasp of just how huge this phenomenon actually is. If you would like to further discuss how Social media can help you and your business please email us. We also have a white paper on Social Media which is available to download for free here.


Myth, legend and lore… With so much of it out there, what exactly is e-marketing?

Posted on by John King in Digital Marketing Tips, Events, Keywords, Link Building, Seminars | Leave a comment

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Excerpt: Tell me… Could you describe and explain social media and online marketing to your grandma, in such a way that she could confidently use it to potentially better a business? I know I couldn’t. I did however go to a seminar today on this very subject that did exactly that! No the room wasn’t full of ‘grandmas’, but it did break down the mysterious lore that is social media and online marketing into easily digested nuggets of knowledge. This seminar was hosted by Generate UK at the spectacular Donnington Grove in their ‘Cloud Suite’. The ‘Cloud Suite’ is a luxurious room lined with lovely old paintings, overshadowed by a fantastic painted ceiling. There was free tea and coffee, there was glorious sunshine and there was a friendly buzz as attendees began to arrive. We were all seated in some rather fancy chairs and we covered a variety of things from e-marketing myth busting to the fundamentals of the ‘twitterverse’. I already knew some of the basics that were covered but it was nice to see that all the fundamentals were explained so that everyone else understood the more advanced things that were to follow. Overall it was very well presented and it left no one guessing. Over the course of the morning I mentally noted a number of clever marketing devices for later use. I learned that no more are the days where one could simply post a few thousand identical links all over the Internet to rank their page from ‘unheard of’ to…


Ten Reasons why I like Sitekit Content Management System

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Excerpt: I’ve personally been involved with 3 fairly sizeable Sitekit projects in the last few months and I have to admit that the more I use it, the more I like it. I don’t always feel that Sitekit gets the recognition it deserves though. Strangely, you could not call Sitekit a cool product, it’s not web 2.0, it’s not built by a community, and it does not have a vibrant following….. Yet it does what it sets out to do, it is a really great content management system. I am now on a mission to make Sitekit the coolest CMS out there…. especially the latest version 9. Ok, the title suggests 10 reasons why I like Sitekit, so here goes: 1. As a project manager, it’s nice to know that my back is covered when it comes to support. With the best will in the world, it is impossible to know everything about a piece of software. So it is reassuring that you’re only ever a step or two away from the chaps responsible for building and maintaining the software. 2. The audit trail functionality is very powerful. It is one of those features that appeals to larger organisations with extensive publishing processes. However, the ability to roll back to previous versions of content is a great feature for medium sized organisations too. Also, it’s always nice to know who made that fatal change! 3. We’ve built Sitekit websites with version 8 and version 9 and it is no surprise to know that version 9 is an improvement on…