Branding & Marketing

Live Chat app tawk.to can increase engagement

If you're looking for a great way to engage with your website visitors then tawk.to should be at the top of your list. tawk.to is a 100% FREE live chat app that lets you monitor and chat with visitors on your website.

Gain valuable insight when you monitor your website visitors in real time as they browse your website.
Stay connected anywhere, be in touch with your customers from your computer, or your smartphone.
Live Chat is convenient for your customers, helping them through pinch points and as a result helping you generate better customer support and achieve higher conversions.

Chris O'Brien 26th May 2017 2:42 pm

Branding & Marketing

Blogging helps you and your brand be seen as experts

When your business has a blog, you’ll have the opportunity to provide more in-depth information on your range of products and services; information that typically wouldn't appear on the main pages of your website.

For example, too much content surrounding a certain product or service can make your business website look awkward and messy. A blog, however, gives you the ideal opportunity to post detailed material and expand on the information you make available about your products and services.

Jenny Howell 3rd May 2017 5:04 am

Branding & Marketing

CMS update notifications for our customers

Starting from the 16th January 2017 if you host your WordPress or Drupal website with O'Brien Media you'll notice a change to out enhanced CMS software reminder service. We hope these changes will help you to keep your site updated (and secure!) by sending notifications out within a few hours of release by WordPress and Drupal developers.

Chris O'Brien 16th January 2017 3:14 pm

Branding & Marketing

We’re rolling out Client Connect to all customers!

We're rolling-out Client Connect, our new customer account management portal to our customers. We've gone way beyond just giving our customers access to invoices and payment receipts – some of the main features are listed in this blog post and will be accessible to all of our customers in the coming weeks.

Chris O'Brien 22nd February 2016 5:54 pm

Branding & Marketing

Announcing our new project status tracker – keeping you informed every step of the way

We’ve been busy over the past few months developing our new Client Connect system, the first phase of this exciting project to go live is

Chris O'Brien 3rd February 2016 12:17 am

Branding & Marketing

Our top 4 reasons to own more than one domain name for your business

Over the years we've owned quite a large number of domain names, from variations on our business name such as obrienmedia.eu, common misspellings like obrianmedia.co.uk, and even for specific products and services we offer such as smsmessenger.co and tasknow.co.uk. This isn't to play to our vanity but to protect our business and brand from others who might – either intentionally or accidentally – decide to register a similar domain name, at which point we would run the risk of customers looking for us finding another business.

Chris O'Brien 24th February 2015 5:07 pm

Branding & Marketing

Have you secured your new shorter, sharper, .uk domain name?

On 10 June 2014, Nominet (the organisation that manages UK domain names) made .uk domain names available for the first time – alongside .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk and so on. If you want to register the shorter .uk version of your UK current domain, get in touch and we'll register the domain name for you (subject to your right to the domain name).

Chris O'Brien 30th December 2014 8:45 am

Branding & Marketing

What does your choice of colour say about your business?

Colour plays a big part in how we react to every aspect of our environment, from the space we work in to the products we buy. Taking colour into account when designing your business' branding, product packaging, promotional materials, and even your office or retail space can have a massive effect on the impact your business has on you and your customers.

Chris O'Brien 22nd July 2014 11:23 am

Branding & Marketing

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