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Crianlarich Hotel – AA 3 star Scottish Hotel

Business News, Client News | Posted by Gavin
Apr 10 2010
3 star Scottish Hotel at Crianlarich

3 star Scottish Hotel at Crianlarich

One of our new clients, The Crianlarich Hotel have recently been awarded 3-stars by the AA.  Situated in Crialarich, ideally located near to Loch Lomond, The River Tay, Glencoe, Oban and the Western Isles, the hotel has also just  installed a new kitchen, totally transformed the reception and opened their new restaurant.  It is also rumored that the AA may return to inspect their food with a view to awarding them their first Rosette – our fingers are firmly crossed for them.

This great 36 room Scottish hotel, in a perfect situation is well worth a visit and we wish them all the best in gaining true recognition for all their hard work.

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Read Guest Reviews on: Trip Advisor (97% of travellers recommend)

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How to get followers on Twitter – theory & practicality

Business News | Posted by Katie
Apr 05 2010

twitter birdThe heading of my post suggests that I am just about to give you a ‘how to’ guide – I wouldn’t be so presumptuous to say that I know how to get quality followers!  What I do know is that I have read some really good articles and blog posts and have also been subject to sales pitches from less than scrupulous companies telling me how, for the price of a small country they will get me a gazillion followers in 5 minutes.

So, whats the point of 1000’s of followers if they are following for the sake of it?  What we all want are followers who are interested in what we have to say, are keen to learn from our experiences or are just being nosy and want to keep a gossipy eye on what we are doing – I fall into that category I think!  Many of us have both a business and a personal Twitter account some of us link them both together but still the big question is how do I get more people to follow me?

So, this is the theory:

1.  Who is the most influential person/business you are following on Twitter who is in the same line of business as you and who you would consider a mentor in their field?

2.  Start following the people that are following your mentor.  Do this is blocks of 50 per day.

3.  After 3 days, anyone who has not followed back from your first 50, unfollow them.

4.  Repeat the process every day, unfollowing people if they havent followed you, and start following 50 more people. (A good tip here is to create private lists in order to keep track of when you initially followed them, so as not to repeat)

5.  Anyone who has followed you back, make sure you interact with them – not just an automated tweet saying thanks for the follow – actually go and look at their posts and find something that you can associate with.

OK, reality check – have any of us got the time to do this every day?  I know I haven’t!  So, in our business we have taken this theory and put it into practice but with a much longer time frame associated, but, I am pleased to say it is working and we are closer to doing more business with more people.  We are starting to build our followers up and I would like to think they are following us because they think we might have something interesting to say – of course they might stop following us next week because they are bored with us but then that is completely out of our control!

Are you a quality follower?  Well then you can follow Aviemore Business and we will speak soon.

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New Google Ad Innovations – PPC with a twist

Business News, Client News, SEO Scotland, Technology | Posted by Gavin
Apr 01 2010
Google Ad Innovations

Google Ad Innovations

Google are currently testing a new type of paid advertising, specifically geared towards e-commerce websites.  Much the same as traditional AdWords, the new innovation will incorporate a CPA (cost per action), whereby the advertiser only pays for the ‘click’ when the user click on the ad and completes a purchase on the website.

This new type of PPC, called Google Ad Innovations, integrates with the Google Merchant Centre account and is still only in early Beta testing – only a few advertisers have been given access to it’s developing functionality, but more will follow over time until it is rolled out within the Google service portfolio.

This could be major development in how many and how often e-commerce businesses utilise Google products for selling products online.

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New From Google – AdWords Search Funnels

Business News, Client News, SEO Scotland, Technology | Posted by Gavin
Mar 24 2010
AdWords search funnels

NEW! AdWords search funnels

True to Google’s tradition of constantly adding new stuff, AdWords search funnels have now been added to Google AdWords (found under the reporting tab > conversions).

AdWords Search Funnels are a set of reports describing the ad click and impression behavior on Google.com that leads up to a conversion. In addition to a Top Conversions report, Search Funnels consist of 7 reports including Assisted Conversions, First and Last Click Analysis, Time Lag, and Path Length. For an overview of these new reports, see the intro video

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Tweetdeck v Hootsuite – the great debate!

Business News | Posted by Katie
Mar 22 2010

pink-boxing-glovesWhich would you use and why?  Its as simple as that – the one question that is floating around our work table at the moment.  Completely and utterly undecided and before I plunge further into investigating I thought I would ask the population.  I like simple, clear, quick to use – I hate confusion, looking good but doing nothing and generally failing to do what it says on the tin.

So if anyone can help out here at all I / we (must include husband who doesn’t like change at the best of times) would be eternally grateful.  Thanks!

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