Sizzle Online – web design trends for 2015
At Peppermint we pride ourselves in being one of the prime web design agencies in Marbella and on providing our clients with sparkling websites that reflect current web design trends. Whether our clients are in Spain, Gibraltar or the UK, we take great care to make sure a website stands out online and that it supports an online marketing strategy. We also supply website copy for a many of our clients’ websites: this ensures that the visual impact and the language have a coherent emotional impact. Our design team keep a close eye on graphic design and web design trends,
A Peppermint Christmas Guide To Twitter Tools
Sitting in southern Spain, on the beautiful Costa del Sol, we wondered what kind of ‘stocking filler’ we could give our readers this Christmas. Then we realised that one topic we haven’t touched on much is Twitter. Plus we’d just read the news that Instagram has knocked Twitter off the social media top spot, so it seemed like a good opportunity for a bit of Twitter TLC. There’s no doubt that Twitter skills are pretty different to the ones we use on Facebook: short and attention grabbing tweets are not always easy to compose and you certainly can’t do things like
Tips for Creating Social Media Graphics that Fizz!
What makes you read a blog post or anything for that matter? Writers would love to think that it’s the attention-grabbing headline, but really it’s the picture that every reader looks at first, and if that’s enticing enough, then your blog is more likely to be read. It’s sad, I know, for writers who have spent time crafting stunning content, but you need a compelling graphic to make sure readers get to that amazingness. If you get the right combination of image and text, it’s like a one-two knockout punch. So here are a few tips to make sure your graphics
Three Tips for Turning Your Subscribers into Social Fans
It’s standard for a business website – whether B2B or B2C - to ask its customers to subscribe to a newsletter. Gathering customers via a subscription to news is still a great way to engage with them and keep them loyal. However, you should really take advantage of this engagement by inviting them to also follow you on social media channels. This maximises customer loyalty and allows you to communicate with them in a range of different ways. It also minimises the chances of your news being lost. How might your message get lost? Well, let’s say a customer has subscribed to
Junk the Jargon in 2015
We all know that marketing loves its buzzwords. But, as David Ogilvy, one of the world’s greatest ad men once said: “Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.” Some of us might pretend we’re above the use of jargon, but few of us can truthfully claim to never having used one of the many buzzwords that are uttered around the corridors of advertising agencies and marketing departments. Here are a five terms that Peppermint thinks the marketing dictionary should junk in 2015. Agile – we haven’t actually heard this one used by marketers on the