About

I’m here to help with your web and graphic design needs. I offer website design,  domain name and hosting set up, leaflets and business cards, album artwork, online shops, blogs and lots more. Whatever your budget, just drop me an email outlining what you need, and I’ll get back to you with a quote. I also run a clip art and graphic resources site and shop, which can be seen here

If you are a first timer with any of this, don’t worry – I won’t blind you with jargon or technical stuff, i’m very down to earth and understand that it can be daunting setting up a site or commissioning designs!

I’m based in Stroud, Gloucestershire, but can offer my services to anyone, pretty much anywhere thanks to the miracles of communication nowadays. Work can all be done via email and phone if need be, although of course its always nice to sit at your place or mine and mull it all over with a cup of tea..

Mel

Digital Marketing services

I can help with your online digital marketing, working and planning campaigns to expose your brand online.

Services and strategies – what I can offer

- Researching your target demographic and identify the sites and pages where the most current and public discussion takes place.
- Build buzz and discussion across the web, using social bookmarking and networking platforms to increase brand awareness and drive positive engagement.

- Twitter page creation branding and design, then regular tweets and follower building.
- Facebook page or group creation. Then posting regular updates – engaging, responding and chatting with ‘fans’ on a personal level.
- Link placement throughout facebook on groups and pages to selected audiences.

- Link placement via forums and blogs, done in a subtle on-topic way.- Multi–media management including video and image editing, uploads and    subsequent promotion. I can sort your photos and upload and promote them on facebook, flickr and twitpic. Likewise with videos on sharing sites such as youtube or vimeo.
- Seeding forum discussions.
- Viral video editing and promotion. I can create ‘fan’ videos or Youtube mashups to seed around the web.

The results

Increases your web traffic.
Positive brand engagement – a very large amount of people are exposed to your brand or product, a proportion of which will get involved and pass the message on.

Creates a natural buzz which feels spontaneous and organic (this can happen prior to a products or brand  release)

The formula for a good online campaign
A successful viral or word of mouth marketing campaign begins with the content. People will are happy and eager to pass on something that is original, funny, shocking or free. The public are very savvy to online advertising and spamming nowadays, and anything perceived as an attempt at direct advertising is not received well! The trick is to create excellent content, be it a web site, article, photo, video or real life stunt. If you wouldn’t pass it on to a friend yourself, then why should anyone else?

With strong content in place, I can step in and work the message over the web in a subtle but powerful way. This creates a pyramid effect, with friends of friends passing on the brand, with thousands more being exposed to it along the way.