The 5th of June marks Wiltshire Day. As a business in Wiltshire, we just had to mark the occasion with a blog post! This blog post will highlight the significance of the county flag, as well as some cool Wiltshire facts!
Here at O’Brien Media, we use Timeular to help us track time. It means that we can track time efficiently and easily. It helps us both professionally and personally, and we don’t know where we’d be without it!
An Atlantic frontal system looks likely to bring rain into parts of southwestern Britain on Wednesday according to The Met Office. As this moves further east into colder air there is a chance of this rain turning to snow.
You’ll notice when you “Google” a shop or restaurant, you’re often presented with a map showing results in your local area. What you might not know, is that this is entirely free – and is a way of advertising your business quickly and easily to people searching. It’s not only for people with something physical to sell, either!
A fifth of SMEs bank with fintechs such as Tide, ourselves included, which are significantly underrepresented with regards to the Government’s CBILS and the Bounce Back Loan schemes.
When your business has an irregular schedule, like holidays or special events, you can enter special hours in advance to let customers know when you’re open via the special opening hours option on Google My Business (and Google Maps).
Google is temporarily removing some features from Google My Business as a result of limitations caused by the COVID-19 situation. “During the unprecedented COVID-19 situation,
Google is asking businesses to update its Google My Business listings if the business is affected by COVID-19. Google posted a new help document describing that businesses can update their business hours, phone numbers, business descriptions and/or use Google Posts to share more information.
Prompted by the GDPR and its headline-grabbing fines, businesses have worked hard to ensure that they have a proper legal basis for their email marketing. This usually means consent from users, although in some circumstances “legitimate interests” may also be an option. In addition to establishing a proper basis for marketing under the GDPR, businesses should include certain other information in their emails.
O’Brien Media’s Senior Developer and Creative Director shares his experience of living with mental health conditions to coincide with World Mental Health Day 2019 in the hope that it might help others feel more able to discuss their own mental health.
