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We are required more and more often to come up with new passwords, most recently with ebay and the Heartbleed bug problems. Learning a new password can be a real…

At present 600,000+ Facebook accounts get hacked daily (Sophos 2014). This includes all your personal information, pictures and just about anything you put online. This is not only personally embarrassing,…

Last year we at Curve Interactive decided it would be a good idea to offer free digital marketing advice to local businesses every day for 30 days in what we…

Simple Local SEO Strategy If you're a small business owner you've probably become frustrated with the huge amounts of customers you're missing out on a daily basis due to the…

Do we need to choose? Everywhere you look on social media sites and groups there is lots of talk about Google+ taking over from Facebook. Princeton has published a paper…

How great email marketing can grow your business The growth of social media in recent years has led many people to believe that email marketing is in decline. However, this…

We are into day 3 of our challenge and so far have supplied 4 businesses in Tunbridge Wells with detailed reports on how they can increase the amount of sales…

Local SEO Case Study - The Barn, Tunbridge Wells The Barn is a beautiful restaurant, bar and wedding venue based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. We started working with The Barn…

As of August 27, 2013 Facebook changed their policy on how competitions on their platform can be held. Promotions may be now administered on Page Timelines as well as in…

There are hundreds of 'on-page SEO' best practice guides online, but none are quite as comprehensive as this. We've worked hard to pull together all the best on-page SEO advice…

Hi everyone! Today marks the 20th day of our #30daychallenge to help every business in Tunbridge Wells with their digital marketing strategies. We have attended several networking events in TW…

This blog post summarises some of the views of Paul Adams in his 2011 book ëGrouped; How small groups of friends are the key to influence on the social webí…

Search engine optimisation in Tunbridge Wells Looking back over the first 8 days of our #30DayChallenge to help every local business in Tunbridge Wells with their digital marketing strategy we…

Free marketing advice continues in Tunbridge Wells As we draw close to the end of day 8 of our marketing challenge the number of business's we have been helping has…

The "Subject Line Best Practice" Article of Your Dreams The most important part of an email is making sure it gets opened! And as they say, you don't get a…

As of April 8th 2013 our account manager, Josh Hamit, will be embarking on a challenge like no other. The aim of the challenge is simply "to get every business…

Facebook (March, 2013) has announced in that it is set to change the design of the News Feed page (again!). However, unlike other drastic changes to the Facebook layout, this…

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the practice of improving the position of a website within search engines results pages. Its ultimate aim is to get a website or webpage placed…

In its simplest terms there are two main factors that contribute to your websites position in the search engine results page (SERPs). On page SEO this relates to all the…

Often business owners ask me ìHow can I increase the number of ëLikesí on my Facbook page?î My standard response to this question is always amongst the following lines: ìThe…

As a specialist digital marketing agency we send out emails every month for our clients. Along with measuring the standard statistics such as open rates and click through we pay…

New Research Shows SEO is the #1 Channel for Driving Leads The latest research from the ëState of Digital Marketingí survey shows that SEO continues to be the leading channel…

We are at an exciting transition point. Will the masses of social media indulgers migrate to Google+ for potentially more value? Or will they stay in the comfort zone of…

The International Data Corporation has predicted mobile internet usage will surpass that of PCs and other wireline services by 2015. In the UK, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has…

Why do we feel the AA have the right approach? The AA has hit the right note with their approach to social media. They have a very clear balance between…

6 bars, 24 hours, £10,000, GPS, and a Helicopter! The latest Kit Kat marketing campaign is fantastic. In fact, it is remarkable, and that is precisely why it has been…

The Google Panda update has been designed to target web pages that do not offer great quality in terms of content. Its aim is to reduce the rankings positions of…

Most organisations have finally realised the potential of social media marketing and have found themselves hopping on the social media bandwagon. However, just being present on the main social media…

Did you know that over 40% of people searching on Google click on the #1 ranked result from the results page? How many keywords does your business rank #1 for?…

As with the release of every Google Search Algorithm update the latest Penguin and Panda updates have caused a bout of ëSEO non-believersí to claim (once again) that ìSEO is…

Executive summary This report is based on the ëPower of Likeí research series conducted by comScore and Facebook on the effectiveness of social media marketing. This report will summarise the…

5 Simple Ways to improve your websites On-page SEO In part one of this guide to SEO mastery we will be describing 5 quick ways to improve your On-Page SEO.…

Although for some time now consideration has been given to how websites are viewed on mobiles and indeed in many cases websites are built specifically for the channel, this has…

Top 4 Twitter Competitions of all time After hours of scouring the internet in search of fantastic examples of Twitter hashtag competitions I must say I didnít come across many…

Discover how one restaurant used Social Media to double their revenue AJ Bombers burger bar was founded in March 2009 by Joe and Angie Sorge. With massive franchises (Burger King,…

The very latest industry research predicts that by 2014 that over 80% of all web traffic with be made through video. If you're not using video to market your company,…

The performance a website has in natural search results (e.g. how highly it is positioned) on Google is dependent on three main factors. Or as Johnson and McGee (2009) like…

As the Internet Revolution continues traditional models (TV, radio, cold calls) of marketing are losing their appeal and new, less intrusive methods of marketing (social media, SEO) are gaining momentum…