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More interesting news on Facebook’s growing role as a marketing tool for businesses. A recently published report found that, of the people surveyed, nearly a quarter wanted brand information via Facebook.

According to the report by digital consultancy Beyond, nearly half of those surveyed said that they follow brands and companies through a social network, with Facebook the most popular source: 23% of participants said that they would prefer to receive information on brands and companies through Facebook, ahead of a company’s own website and a company’s own blog.

The report also found that half of the participants said …

I recently talked about Google Places and its usefulness as a business tool in terms of optimising visibility through a location-based Google search. Well, another Places has been launched – this time Facebook Places. It’s only available in the US at the moment, but it won’t be long before it’s here.

In short, Facebook Places allows users to make their location known to friends and goes up against existing location-based social network rivals such as Foursquare and Gowolla.

In terms of Facebook’s growing importance as a business tool – something I blogged about a couple of weeks ago, Facebook Places …

Following on from my post on the growth of Facebook company pages and the use of this social network as a business marketing tool, I want to discuss digital marketing in a bit more detail.

Search engine optimisation and social media marketing, which I talked about in relation to Facebook company pages, are elements of digital marketing, which is essentially marketing carried out on the web. As you can imagine, this type of marketing is becoming increasingly important as more and more business is carried out online.

You can read more about search engine optimisation and social media marketing in …

I’ve mentioned the growth of social media marketing in this blog before, but the fact that I’ve read a lot recently about how more and more businesses are using Facebook to promote themselves means it warrants some further discussion.

In my experience, Twitter and LinkedIn have been the first points of contact for businesses in the world of social media. They’ve led the march so to speak. Facebook has been able to accommodate it for quite some time, but all the same it has remained in the shadow of Twitter and LinkedIn.

Well, until now that is. Thanks to a …

Web design and development is our speciality, but we also offer a wide range of complementary services. However, finding the space and time to explain what the likes of web hosting, digital marketing, Google AdWords and social media optimisation are isn’t always easy.

So, that’s why I’ve created the Chichester Design What We Do series. Using our blog, I’m going to describe these services in a bit more detail so that you will be able to better understand how they can benefit your business. First up is social media optimisation.

Social media is no longer merely the preserve …