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Email marketing has long been a contentious subject, ever since Gary Thuerk sent the first unsolicited commercial bulk email in 1978 to just 400 people. For his troubles Gary earned himself the nickname, ‘The Father of Spam’, not quite the legacy most would like to leave behind. Theurk actually prefers to think of himself as…

Once upon a time, we were inundated with marketing messages in the post, and then along came email, a cheaper and faster alternative. However, in recent years we’ve seen direct mail start to enjoy a revival as marketers observe an increase in response rates that rival those of its digital cousin. In 2016, direct mail…

Repeat after me, ‘my logo is not my brand’. Right, now we’ve got that out the way we can crack on and talk about what a brand is and why it’s so important to your business. Have you ever met someone so devoid of personality that you glazed over and started daydreaming the moment they…

Quite often, we get people questioning the purpose behind writing regular blog posts and creating content for their website. Sure, blogs may have started out as a way for angsty teenagers to vent their frustrations anonymously in online diaries, but they have come a long way since those days. Creating regular, engaging content for your…

I’d hazard a guess that the only people who haven’t heard of Coca-Cola live in the deepest depths of the jungle cut off from all civilisation, and even then I bet a lonely can has come floating downriver. They have a huge 44% market share in the soft drinks sector, more than one and a…

One of the oldest adages in the advertising and marketing community is, ‘features tell, but benefits sell’. Essentially, it means that if you want to sell something, you should focus on how your product benefits the customer, not the features it has. Of course, features are still important, they’re just not the driver for most…

The very start of a client and agency relationship is important, it can set the tone for how any future projects will go and ultimately whether it will be a long and productive partnership. At Workhouse, we dedicate a lot of time to improving our relationships and the way we work with our clients. However,…

You type a search query into Google or any of the other search engines and look through the options it fires back. Your business isn’t there. Your competitors are, but you’re not. You keep clicking through the pages and finally find your business on page 3, 4, 5 or even worse. It’s actually irrelevant which…

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is a complicated business that takes a lot of skill and know how (and we must admit, sometimes a bit of dumb luck). SEO practices can be split into two categories: on-page and off-page. On-page strategies refer to anything you might do to make a web page more attractive to a…

The key to any great marketing strategy is to make sure you never get stuck in a rut and constantly review your practices. However, it’s easy to get bogged down in all the new technology and buzzwords! You might be wondering which things you should be focussing on in the upcoming year. Does a groundwork…