Press & Media for David Howlett & Search Marketing Services
Recent press coverage of David Howlett or Search Marketing Service Ltd...
Companies band together to form Coalition Media Salisbury Journal November 12 2006 This is about how nine West Country firms have joined together to form a consultancy called: Coalition Media.
Based in and around Wiltshire the member offer a diverse range of skill to companies large and small. Members include: Anya Yeatman, Mark Hockings, Andrew Redman, David Howlett, Greg Hill, Jack Ozanne, Amanda Wakelin-Smith and Fritz Curzon.
The main subject for discussion was the importance of not tying small businesses up with red tape, otherwise they can become uncompetitive and find difficulty with competing in the international marketplace.
Search engines should be first consideration Wiltshire Times Business News 18 December 2005
This piece is a short case study outlining the importance of considering search engine marketing and how it can effect the success of a business.
A wildflower seed website called Meadowmania had a great website but had not left any funding for search engine marketing.
David Howlett show the business owner how he could do this work himself, leading on to a 45% growth in the business and an increase in the range of products.
A
rural revival is on its way Business Link website news page16 December 2005 In the first major study of the rural crafts sector for 80 years
it is evident that crafts such as saddlery, wheelwrighting and thatching
could soon overtake farming as the biggest contributor to the rural
economy.
In this piece I visited a vineyard and talked to the owner about
the importance of getting access to the right information.
Five steps to more effective websites Wiltshire Times & Business News 28 July 2005
According to research by software company Macromedia, two thirds of businesses in the UK have no idea whether their website offers any value to their company.
In this piece I go through five steps businesses can take to get their websites working effectively and profitably.
Rural businesses get on the web of growth Salisbury Journal (Business Section) 12 May 2005
This is about workshops I developed specifically to help rural businesses to make better use of the internet.
Subjects included: planning designing and running a website, website marketing and promotion, starting an eBay store to sell your products and setting up a wireless network.
Countryside report says rural firms are growing Wiltshire Times Business News 5 March 2005
Rural businesses employ 5.35 million people across the country, in areas beyond the traditional farming and tourism sector.
This story goes into just how important training is for rural firms and gives examples of businesses that have benefited such as the Longleat House and Safari Park and Anthony Wilson, a sculptor from Knook near Warminster.
Develop
your own business website Wiltshire College Website News 28 October 04 This piece is about the website workshops I ran in conjunction with
Wiltshire College.
The training offered a complete hands-on training package to help
people develop an effective website for their businesses. People
attending learned how to use a simple browser based tool that enabled
them to build and maintain their websites.
Farmers
urged to go online to boost growth Bath Chronicle October 15 2004 This is a story about the website skills workshops I ran for rural
businesses in Wiltshire. These have been very popular as they cost
very little to attend and offered a good grounding in the subject.
Topics covered included: website marketing and search engine promotion,
developing an e-commerce website and setting up in business on eBay.
Rabbit
is the key to fast communication Wiltshire Times Business New 12 September 2003 Broadband
is much more widely available now than it used to be. This is a
story about a grant that was available for people living in rural
areas who wanted broadband but found it was not available from BT.
In this piece I talk to
rural businesses who benefited from the grant.
Grant
scheme available for rural satellite link Swindon Business News2 July 2003 This is another angle on the grant that was available for anyone living
outside a broadband service offered by BT.
Up to £700 was available. All people
had to do was sign-up, get the equipment installed by a provider
and then apply for the grant.
In the article I mention that people do have other options if they
can't get the services from BT.
At the time a popular way to get broadband was with technology
called Broadband Wireless Access. This enabled people in small villages
or hamlets to benefit from this technology long before BT would
enable their local exchanges.
"I found the SEO training very helpful. It was at a time when we were looking at changing the look of our website and didn't realise how important even the text on the home page was until I learnt about search engine optimisation.
Jackie Cole, Longleat.co.uk
