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The top 100 global brands
Categories: bd2 + marketing + Brand
Technology brands continue to dominate the top 100 with over half of the top 10 brands being technology businesses and Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft taking the top 4 positions according to Interbrand's latest annual report…
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What is design worth?
Categories: digital + design + user experience
How do the the best design performers increase their revenues at nearly twice the rate of their competitors?…
Does Wework work?
Categories: digital
The ups and downs of the new breed of digital and technology companies, the ‘disruptors’ and the ‘unicorns’, are fascinating…
Improving Customer Lifetime Value
Categories: marketing
Customer lifetime value is one of the most important metrics to understand. So how do you improve it?…
Encouraging the digital and creative skills of the future
Categories: digital + creative + education
The demand for digital skills sometimes feels overwhelming but we can't moan about it and then not take any opportunities we get to help address it.…
User Experience in Business to Business platforms
Categories: digital + design + umbraco + business to business + user experience
Ux, which stands for User Experience - and I’ll apologise now for the use of these kind of abbreviations and acronyms as there’s lots of them coming up - has always been critical to the success of any…
bd2 meet up with Datel's Account Management team at Sherrington's
Categories: bd2 + digital + ecommerce
There's been a lot happening, some exciting new projects in the pipeline along with some new additions to Datel's Account Management team, so it seemed like a really good time for a catch up and a chat over a few pints, pies and peas - we are in Wigan after all - at our very own craft beer bar Sherrington's.…
What is a headless CMS? And what are the benefits?
Categories: digital + umbraco
A headless CMS comes into its own when an organisation needs multiple websites, The benefits are complete flexibility, efficiency and total control to manage any number of websites with any number of different Ui designs and all content in a single platform.…
Content is still king.
Categories: social media + marketing + video
The idea of content marketing isn't a new one. Back in 1996 Bill Gates was one of the first people to coin the ‘Content is King’ mantra.…
Greater Connected Amplify
Categories: bd2 + digital + design
It started with a study trip to Copenhagen and finished with a very nice buffet and a few drinks in Manchester's Corn Exchange. The Amplify program has been 9 months of training, learning, mentoring and strategising…
Connect 2019: bd2's e-commerce partner Datel's Conference
Categories: bd2 + digital + ecommerce + events
Datel are the largest Sage business partner in the UK and are widely recognised as the 'Rolls Royce' at Enterprise level - Sage X3, Sage 1000 and Sage 200 implementations and support. bd2 has been Datel's approved e-commerce partner for over 20 years working with them for clients such as Yokohama Tyres, Caudwell Group, Burberrry, Bunzl Group, Ralawise, Wax Lyrical, LG Harris and Boodles.…
Digital Futures - Manchester Digital's 'Tech Talents Schools Engagement Program' for educators and careers advisors
Categories: bd2 + digital + wigan
Speaking at Manchester Digital's 'Discover Digital Careers' event to educators and careers advisors from Wigan and Bolton.…
Fintech North Conference Whitworth Hall Manchester University
Categories: events
Fintech North Conference, Whitworth Hall, Manchester University.…
The Government publishes its 'Online Harms' white paper
Categories: social media + digital
"Voluntary actions from industry to tackle online harms have not been applied consistently or gone far enough." Jeremy Wright, Secretary Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.…
As ever, Hegarty talks sense.
Categories: social media + marketing + digital
The ultimate adman, Sir John Hegarty of BBH, rails against the monopolistic behaviours of Google and Facebook - ‘they’re sucking money out of the economy.'…
Insider Business Breakfast review
Categories: digital + wigan + creative + events
We were delighted to be one of the panelists at an Insider event focused on Wigan's regeneration strategy.…
Sherrington's (the video)
Categories: bd2 + Brand + design + wigan + video
The Sherrington's story in video form - for those who haven't got time to read the posts!…
Video case studies for Fiswal
Categories: social media + marketing + digital + creative + video
A series of video case studies for commercial catering specialists Fiswal…
Social Video Marketing
Categories: social media + marketing + digital + video
More and more brands are turning to video to execute their advertising and brand messages, as the chosen way to reach new and existing audiences.…
Unsocial media (part 7) a new code of conduct
The Digital Minister, Margot James, will today launch a code of conduct for social media companies.…