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How to promote diversity in startup programmes and communities
Diversity is becoming increasingly important for UK businesses. Here’s five ways we’ve promoted inclusivity for startup programmes and communities.
Six tips on how brands can use content marketing to sell to startup founders
Does your company sell products or services to startups? Content marketing plays a crucial role in helping brands create awareness, demonstrate expertise and build trust. It’s one of the most effective marketing tools to reach founders and their teams.
Nine tips for starting and building online communities for small business owners
If you want to create communities – vibrant, engaged peer-to-peer networks – then precision and effort is required. There is no “right” way, of course. It can be in-person or the more modern incarnation of a Discord group.
Online, in-person, or hybrid: How should you run your events?
There’s no doubt that the pandemic changed the business world. Several lockdowns meant many businesses had to adopt flexible working options for employees – and similar approaches had to be taken to holding events.
Four tips for marketing to people who are about to launch businesses
Targeting pre-launch businesses is an opportunity to sell startup services and build loyalty. Here are four practical tips about marketing to this audience.
Four emerging trends startup founders are tackling in 2022
Based on the 500 applicants and 60 finalists of The Pitch 2021, here’s our roundup of the four key trends that emerged as ones to watch in the coming year.
Stop marketing to “SMEs”: Refining your personas is essential to effective marketing
Don’t make the mistake of lumping “small businesses” together. Marketing to groups within the SME segment is essential to cutting through the noise.
Inkwell’s marketing manager shares her favourite time-saving tools
Meet Inkwell’s new marketing manager Talicza and get recommendations for marketing tools that will save you time and effort.
The eight most common issues we see in content marketing audits
Over the last two years, we’ve completed dozens of content audits. Here's everything we've learnt on the journey.
How often should we be updating blog content to make sure it performs well?
Updating a page is a great way to capitalise on content that’s performing well, plus making updates can improve the page’s search engine ranking.