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Is your eMarketing Mobile Friendly?
Categories: marketing + digital
Perceived wisdom (and hard evidence) tells us that increasingly emails are being read on the move. Many sources suggest that around 70% of email traffic is now accessed on a mobile device – a…
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A problem shared
Categories: digital
Just taking time out of the day to day ‘busy-ness’ of running a business, to actually think about the business, is never a bad idea. Finding that time isn’t easy though, especially in a deadline…
Work in Wigan? You must be joking. Actually, it’s full of surprises.
Categories: bd2 + wigan
Insider North West held one of its excellent breakfast events earlier in the month with a panel comprised of Martin Ainscough – Chairman of Ainscough Group; Phil Clarke – former GB and Wigan rugby…
Deliver Conference 2017
Categories: bd2 + events
bd2’s Project Manager, Rory Clarke and I, attended the ‘Deliver Conference 2017’ hosted at the Comedy Store Manchester drawn by an excellent line up of speakers and some interesting subject matter.The…
Effective tactics to engage your email subscribers
Categories: marketing
Email continues to be one of the fastest-growing marketing channels and is arguably one of the biggest drivers of customer acquisition and customer retention. It provides a cost-effective medium to…
Bread and Butter
Categories: bd2 + Brand
Last week I attended the second Trustee Meeting of The Bread and Butter Thing, a new charity which works closely with food redistribution charity FareShare to provide parcels of assorted food items to…
WW tested & turned over at MM testimonial by Leigh, but Micky Mac turns out to be the real winner.
Categories: bd2
True to form and in line with the way that last season turned out for him, ‘bitter sweet’ continued to be the theme for Michael McIlorum’s most recent RL related endeavours…..at least on the pitch.The…
“Excellent morning”
The feedback from one of our first Launchpad digital workshops, from a very successful £20M+ turnover Wigan based business, has been very positive with an ‘excellent’ rating of the workshop’s overall…
Two hugely important email triggers you should be using
More and more companies are using email marketing in both b2b and b2c channels. At bd2, we now provide most of our clients with a range of email marketing services; from concept, design and…
We back Micky Mac
Last year was an odd year in many ways. Arguably a year that many people would say they were glad to be ‘out with the old and in with the new’.That said, locally at least, and for one group in…
We made it.
Categories: design
Regardless of, or despite, or perhaps even because of, the blood, sweat, tears and stress (mainly stress) involved when delivering a project on a Sunday due to a very tight deadline, there’s an…
2016
2016 was a fairly seismic year really, what with the Brexit vote and the election of one Donald J. Trump. Both events create a sense of uncertainty and leave us all looking at 2017 through slightly…
2016 SEO in review
The end of the year is a time to reflect and look back on how things have changed over the past twelve months. As the world of SEO continues to evolve at lightning speed, keeping abreast of the latest…
Medals on Friday
Categories: wigan
Last Friday began for me dodging fierce showers to get to Wigan Youth Zone for seven thirty and another of their excellent Business Breakfasts. The headline speaker was Olympian Darren Campbell and…
bd2 on g-cloud
Categories: bd2 + digital
The g-cloud is the government’s online portal designed to help public sector organisations engage with and procure services from small to medium sized businesses, often referred to as SMEs. The…
Collaboration
Following last Friday’s blog about the Launchpad, our new workspace for collaboration, exploration and creativity that is opening.…
T-minus…
We’re about to start the countdown to the opening of the Launchpad, our new workspace for discovery, innovation and collaboration.We recognise that many digital projects require diverse teams with…
Aldermore Conference
Categories: Brand + design
When we won a pitch to design and deliver Aldermore Bank’s annual conference back in April, it seemed like a fairly relaxed timescale to sort everything out for mid-October. Sure enough the event has…
Wigan Business Expo
Categories: bd2 + wigan + events
bd2 was once again delighted to take part in this year’s Wigan Expo. Over the last 6 years the event has grown from one small lounge in the DW Stadium, to fill all the lounges across 2 floors, then…
#NUX5
Categories: design + events + user experience
This year’s UX and design conference, NUX5, took place in the Theatre Room of the Royal Northern College of Music and was opened by Boon Sheridan – whose job description ranges from site producer to…
