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Combing customer centricity and commerciality
Categories: marketing
What is customer centricity?Customer centricity is a way of doing business with your customers in a way that provides a positive customer experience before and after the sale in order to drive repeat…
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econsultancy's 2019 digital trends
Categories: social media + marketing + digital
Key highlights from econsultancy's 2019 trends and predictions for digital marketing…
New Umbraco site for Amspec launched
Categories: bd2 + digital + design + umbraco
Our new website for Amspec, a leading North West based design and build business, demonstrates the versatility and capability of Umbraco's CMS, a strong user interface and an involving user experience.…
The bd2 Christmas do!
Categories: bd2
The Low Wood Hotel Windermere - the bd2 Christmas Do!…
The bread and butter thing eat and greet
Categories: bd2 + digital + design
eat and greet event at Inspire Levenshulme to thank our community hub volunteers…
Rebrand or refresh?
Categories: bd2 + Brand
We always approach rebranding a mature business with caution as there is often a lot of value built up within the brand identity, especially when it’s a successful business.…
Freedom, flexibility and cost effectiveness - choosing a CMS
Categories: bd2 + digital + umbraco
A quick summary of the key issues to consider and the options when looking at a new CMS.…
Wigan Expo 2018
Categories: bd2 + Brand + digital + wigan + events
Another year another Wigan Business Expo, the ninth in fact, and we’ve been delighted to exhibit at each and every one of them.…
Digital Revolution Conference
Categories: bd2 + digital + events
Manchester Digital Revolution Conference…
Amplify study trip to Denmark and Sweden
Categories: bd2 + marketing + digital + design
Along with several other creative and digital agency owners I've just been on a study trip to visit some best of breed practitioners from Scandinavia.…
Festival of Marketing 2018
Categories: bd2 + marketing
bd2 joined hundreds of marketers attending the Festival of Marketing 2018 at Tobacco Dock in East London, for two jam-packed days of content, marketing workshops and interactive activations.…
Sherrington’s (part 3) the journey’s end, or start, depending on how you look at it.
Categories: bd2 + marketing + Brand + design
This weekend saw the culmination of months - many, many months - of hard work, blood, sweat and tears, when ‘Sherrington’s Bar’ opened its doors to the public for the first time.…
e-commerce live @UKfast
I've been to my fair share of sponsored conferences and events over the years and admittedly set off with a somewhat skeptical fear about being sold to again. However, I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised with some inspiring talks and ideas coming from this half day conference at UKfast.…
Sherrington's (part 2)
Categories: bd2 + Brand + design + wigan
The journey continues... the end is almost in sight!…
Unsocial media (part 6) - book review: 'Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts' by Jaron Lanier
Categories: social media + digital
'Social media is supposed to bring us together - but it's tearing us apart' so says Silicon Valley sage Jaron Lanier whose book proposes that by liberating yourself from social media you might become a calmer, nicer person.…
Welcome to Team bd2
We've grown again! Learn all about about our latest recruit Alex...…
My week at bd2
We recently had graphic design student Luke from Wigan College in the studio for a week’s work placement. We asked Luke to tell us about his week at bd2.…
Bulletproof Agency Conference
Categories: digital + events
A conference promising to help agency owners 'take control' of their businesses through effective processes and planning…
Prepare to be elevated
Categories: bd2 + digital + creative + events
Business Growth Hub launch the new Elevate programme to an invited group of 15 digital and creative agencies chosen from the 150 who completed the Greater Connected Programme.…
International Business Festival 2018
Categories: marketing + digital + design + events
Creative Industries day at The International Business Festival 2018 at Liverpool's Exhibition Centre on the banks of the River Mersey…