Happy New Year, I hope everyone had a nice relaxing Christmas break. We had a lovely time in the UK with family and friends and are now back at work and looking forward to an excellent 2011.
Please get in touch if you are looking for some inspiration for how to promote your business this year. Remember we’re still offering our free 30 minute brainstorming session to generate some ideas and put you on the right track.
Tonolito means little barrel
If you want a fun place to start a night out in Marbella which is very authentic Spanish, Tonolito is an excellent choice. It’s a little place in the back streets off Orange Square which offers a free tapas with every drink you order. They have a choice of 50 to choose from and it’s fun to try out a good selection to accompany your drinks.
Shaw Marketing Services will be closed from 23/12/10-03/01/2011 inclusive. We shall be spending Christmas in the UK and not checking our emails during this time. Please feel free to send us an email and we will get back to you on our return. Have a very Happy...
Continue ReadingBusiness 1st is a networking group which holds weekly breakfast meetings at Mijas Costa (El Chaparral Golf Club), Nueva Andalucía (Terra Sana), and now Estepona at El Paraiso Country Club. I have attended a few of their meetings and found them very useful so it will...
Continue ReadingThanks a lot to the website Marbella Family Fun for compiling an excellent list of Christmas Events taking place in Marbella. The ones that particularly catch my eye are ice skating in the Palacio de Congresos, which sounds very unlikely, but great fun, and free churros and...
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Hacienda Patagonica is where we go when we fancy steak but don’t want to break the bank. For me, it has the rare combination of great atmosphere, lovely service, delicious food and reasonable prices and we love it.
We listened to a great webinar from email marketing providers Constant Contact last month all about Social media marketing. This is a new and exciting area and is becoming an increasingly important part of the marketing mix. It's great to be able to listen to social...
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Back in 2009, a client asked me to research and write an article about how businesses can effectively use Twitter to promote themselves and I must say I was very skeptical. All I’d seen of Twitter up to then was people telling you every detail of their boring lives from being tired, to going to the shops, so frankly I didn’t think the article would be easy to write.
As part of my research I set myself up with a Twitter account and started to have a look around for business related information. To my surprise there was loads of excellent “Tweets” from businesses which linked to an informative article, made people aware of an event or promoted a special offer. I realized that actually Twitter holds great business potential and works in tandem with the other key social media tool, the blog, to expand your content and drive people to your website.
Marbella Town Hall have informed us that there's an event taking place on the Dia de Santa Lucia in the Plaza de Iglesia. It's a mulled wine and ginger biscuit sampling in the main square outside the church and is being held by the Swedish College in...
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I am very excited as the ski season has finally started up in the Sierra Nevada! They have been using the snow cannons to make sure there are ski-able areas and thanks to some early snow there’s a record amount of runs open. I always feel better about it pouring with rain here if I know that it’s snowing up there!
If you want to see for yourself what’s going on up there, you can take a look at the Sierra Nevada webcam – it looks like there’s even some snow down to the village which is brilliant so early in the season. According to the website there’s 9 lifts open, 22 pistes open and over 17km of slopes which are good to ski on. It’s a sweet little resort which I’d recommend for beginners and intermediates. There are some good runs for the more advanced skiers too, but these are limited.
