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Social media best practice for business
Social media advice for businesses looking to set up, evaluate, manage or improve their social media campaigns across a range of channels.
Online advertising
Cost-effective ideas for advertising on the internet including advertising through your own website, other websites and through search engines.
Outdoor advertising
The advantages of outdoor advertising such as billboards, posters, buses and ambient to reach your target audience in key locations.
Search engine optimisation: links strategy
Building incoming links to your page is a valuable way to improve your search engine rankings, find out effective tactics to get high quality backlinks.
Ten tips for using social media
Some tips to help make your social network work for you, including choosing the right platform, planning and measuring performance.
Print advertising
The advantages and disadvantages of press and print advertising, the options and types of publication you can choose to advertise in.
Evaluate advertising spend
How to plan and research your advertising to make best use of your advertising budget and evaluate and measure the success of your campaigns.
Advantages and disadvantages of face to face sales
The costs and benefits associated with selling in person such as building personal relationships and persuasion.
Choosing a search engine optimisation agency: checklist
Use this checklist to determine whether an SEO agency is a suitable partner for your website, including avoiding unrealistic claims and checking references.
Voice search optimisation
How to optimise your website to answer smartphone and digital assistant voice search queries.
Working with a search engine optimisation agency
Learn how to work with a search engine optimisation (SEO agency), what they may be able to help you with and what to look for in a new SEO contract.
Advertising
Why every business should consider the possible benefits of advertising, how to get the most from it, types of advertising and the pros and cons of each.
How to write an advertisement
The key requirements of a print advertisement - a targeted headline, well-written text and clear design, follow these guidelines to write a quality advert.
Product safety and metrology - Northern Ireland
Guides on specific product safety and metrology regulations for businesses placing goods on the market in Northern Ireland
Hatching eggs and chicks marketing standards
Overview of the marketing standards for hatching egg and chick producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.
Business contracts and fair competition
Forming contracts with other businesses, resolving disputes and competing fairly
Product safety
Laws and guidance for businesses on product safety in Northern Ireland
Promoting our business through Instagram - Ivory & Pearl
Kate Speers, owner of Ivory & Pearl, explains how they promote their business through Instagram
Understanding social value in public procurement
What social value is in public sector procurement, how you demonstrate it in a tender submission and what resources are available to assist your business.
The Consumer Rights Act
Understand the implications of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and the responsibilities you have under it to the consumers who buy your goods or services.