That is right, the blog which none of you have been waiting for is now open.

This marketing information blog is going to be a place where a whole range of information and resources are going to go, all related to marketing, plus other useful and interesting business information.

Some of the main topics that we are going to cover are:

• Internet Marketing
• Web design – for profit, not just prettiness
• Web Hosting
• Graphic design
• SEO – Search Engine Optimisation
• PPC – Pay Per Click advertising
• Copywriting
• Local business marketing
• Local and national concerns about running businesses
• Using Video in marketing
• Programming – mainly HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, and other web based technologies
• Software – Take a look at our computers, and you will find a whole host of software for different tasks, and we will be sharing these with you to make your life easier
• Online software – We also use a lot of online programs for various tasks which we will be reviewing and passing on.
• Other things!  Let us know what you would like to know more about in the comments

So who are we to talk about things like the above?

Well, we have employees all over the world, but the main contributors of this blog will be:

Alan Marks
(The person writing this post)

Occupation: Internet Marketing Consultant

Marketing experience: About 4 years working with Global HQ on copywriting, SEO, PPC – in fact most of the above list.

Hobbies: Amateur Dramatics, computer games, reading, T’ai Chi Chuan, working out more efficient ways to do things.
David Westwood

Occupation: Internet Marketing Consultant / manager

Marketing experience: Been working online in all fields since 1996, with other experience in sales and estate agency.

Hobbies: canoeing, cooking, gardening, socialising, and working too many hours.

Why are we writing about marketing information?

Do a quick search, and you will find millions of sites about marketing and SEO.  So why are we bothering to do another one?

There are a couple of reasons.

The main one is that we don’t think that there are many UK companies that are doing the kinds of things that we are, to the level that people in other countries are doing.

Secondly, even the companies that are doing it properly are missing something: they are only really looking at the larger companies.  While this does make some kind of sense, small businesses also have something to offer.  In fact without local builders or electricians, the country would collapse.  These small businesses need someone to look after them in the marketing.

This is something so amazing, not even Superman can do it.

So we will be aiming to have a regular weekly blog post, and start off with one post on each of the topics at the top, and then take feedback, and go from there.  With 12 topics there, that should keep us busy for a while.

Let us know what you would like to know about.

Have fun, and make money!

Cheers,

Alan Marks.

Edit 06.04.2010: just added webhosting to the list of things to cover.  Quite important for Internet marketing really.