We like to think we charge a fair rate for a fair amount of work. Most of our clients make a viable return on their investment with us, and that’s what keeps them coming back. However, if I had £1 for every time someone has said, “You...
Happy New Year! I hope you had a nice break over Christmas. So here we go again. A brand-new year and a brand-new lockdown. The latter, of course, brings its own challenges. Worse for some than others. My personal situation is that I’m back working from my bedroom the...
Quite often, a client will ask me something along the lines of: “How did my campaign perform?” “How are the results looking?” “Looking at the report, are these figures good?” I always take it as a compliment that clients (generally) respect my knowledge and experience. That they look to me...
“All I hear is doom and gloom, and all is darkness in my room.” – The Rolling Stones, Doom and Gloom Whilst the lyrics to this song are somewhat abstract, I do find myself singing this song in my head quite often when catching up on...
As well as the very targeted campaigns we run whereby we identify your audience from our database of over one million records by industry, geography and size, we also run campaigns for around 30 of what we call our “mass-market” clients. These are our “bread and...
So, for the majority of us, we’re heading into another lockdown tomorrow. You cannot help but compare this to last time. My mind instantly jumps back to that fateful Sunday night in March when the announcement came. A mad dash to the office, grabbing everything we needed for...
Having not come up with any great ideas or decent analogies for this week’s blog, I thought I’d share a brief history of Merrehill and how we got to where we are today! We, the founders, previously worked in reselling software, predominantly MS products. When changes were...
It was our birthday last week. 15 years of Merrehill! I only noticed when I started receiving ‘Happy anniversary’ messages on LinkedIn! ‘Lee Shore is celebrating his 15th anniversary at Merrehill.’ This coincided with an interesting post that I got involved with on LinkedIn. A connection of mine was talking...
One of the many, many, many benefits of email marketing is longevity. Believe it or not, people keep hold of emails they consider they may need in the future. We know this because we see it time and time again. Replies to emails starting, ‘You emailed me x...
Want to know if email marketing works? Offer something free of charge. If you’re targeting the right audience with a product that they can make use of at literally no expense to them, you will be inundated with replies/enquiries. We don’t recommend this, of course, but it does...