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Salamander appoints Skyron for brand refresh and to drive effective digital communications

by Yannis Marcou |September 8th, 2010

Salamander are an award-winning company offering Enterprise Performance Governance solutions and software to the Defence, National Security and Private sectors. Salamander has a number of requirements: a refreshed visual identity, more clarity in its brand communications and a website and other digital channels that fully exploit the company’s extensive intellectual capital for marketing and lead generation purposes.

Salamander is a specialist B2B company doing very clever stuff and run by talented people with immense knowledge and an uncontrollable desire to share it. A niche offering and valuable thought leadership are great foundations for effective B2B digital communications.

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Migrating content from your old website? Here is a simple, yet über-effective tip…

by Yannis Marcou |August 28th, 2010

Thousands of pages, countless sections and subsections, hidden forms, forgotten PDFs and a global navigation buckling under the weight of 5 years worth of constant updates and additions. And now it has to be you in charge of migrating this unruly mess to your organisation’s brand new website and CMS.

It took years of hard work for the content to come together and everyone agrees there is some good stuff in there. But where do you start? Here is a trick to help you develop some criteria by which you can decide what to do with all this content.

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SharePoint 2010: The perpetual user journey on tap

by Yannis Marcou |June 16th, 2010

Had a hands-on session with SharePoint 2010 yesterday and experienced the vast amount of cross-linking that dominates the new version. Documents, people, knowledge, expertise, actions, disciplines, locations, are all weaved together into a (what appears to be) seamless network that can easily transform a quick intranet visit into a never-ending journey.

For years now we have been removing dead ends from user journeys in intranets and B2B websites. Each confirmation page invites further involvement, each content page features strong calls to action and cross referenced information and even the whole website is not a dead end, but it links to Twitter, blogs, LinkedIn, Skype or mobile downloads (I looked into this process in an earlier post about the “engagement cycle“). The objective is of course to make each journey even more valuable to the individual and to strengthen their relationship with the brand.

Numerous community websites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Wikipedia have achieved stellar success on the back of this simple principle of inter-connectivity that leads to the perpetual user journey. SharePoint 2010 puts this amazing functionality “on tap” for any organisation ready to make a transition into this brave new world.

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Montagu Private Equity appoints Skyron and To The Point to take message to market

by Yannis Marcou |June 14th, 2010

Montagu LogoOffering full support to management teams is how Montagu Private Equity creates strong partnerships that lead to successful deals.

Montagu hired digital B2B agency Skyron and branding consultancy To The Point to take this message to its diversified group of audiences, by creating effective digital touch points through a new corporate website and an appropriate digital communications strategy. A targeted tone of voice, video testimonials, portfolio news aggregation and an introduction to the unique Full Potential Plan, will form components of the communication strategy that will help Montagu find new opportunities and secure management backing.

Together, Skyron’s results-driven approach to digital communications and To The Point’s brand expertise will ensure that Montagu receives maximum value from this partnership.

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RingRing Media appoints Skyron to push proposition with new website

by Robert Anderson |April 25th, 2010

Ring Ring Media logoRingRing Media, the fast growing international mobile media agency, has appointed  Skyron to shape and promote their brand, proposition and services to a global audience with a new website. The website will convey the company’s ethos, global reach, multinational clients  and focus on delivering value via a visually rich interactive experience.

RingRing Media manages international multi-million dollar mobile campaigns for some of the world’s largest brands.

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Analytics help News International uncover the lead generating power of their B2B website

by Yannis Marcou |April 16th, 2010

NIC HomepageThe website of News International Commercial (NIC – the trade marketing arm of NI)  is a typical B2B exercise. It promotes the brand, showcases products and features case studies, news, insights and contact information. And like a lot of other B2B websites it could easily be left to its own devices  condemned to a sad life of brochureware insignificance. Such neglected B2B sites, and there are quite a few around,  act like a black hole where an unspecified number of users go in and out, but nobody knows what they get up to – and consequently nobody has with any idea how to make any money from them. So when the strategy behind the NIC website was drafted, Skyron advised the marketing team on the commercial benefits of analytics. Everyone agreed that to extract maximum value from the effort and money invested, a closer monitoring of the website’s performance would be the way forward.

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Baker Tilly International get a new global website

by Yannis Marcou |April 7th, 2010

Baker Tilly International HomepageBaker Tilly International, a leading worldwide network of high quality, independent accountancy and business advisory firms, just launched their new corporate website. Skyron conceived, designed and built the website as part of a strategic rethink of the corporation’s global communications.

The new website represents 147 firms in 100 countries and aims at achieving the following:

  • Refresh and strengthen the Baker Tilly brand
  • Capture new business interest and direct it to local firms and offices
  • Attract new partners
  • Become a strong corporate communications hub

Skyron will be closely monitoring the website against the above goals to ensure that its performance always remains optimised. The website’s lauch will soon be followed by the launch of Baker Tilly International’s new global extranet bringing together 26,000 Baker Tilly professionals from around the world.

Visit: http://www.bakertillyinternational.com

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Do you need a mobile website yet?

by Yannis Marcou |April 7th, 2010

Unless you just landed from outer space, it is very likely that you have been following the media obsession with the iPhone (and now with the iPad). You are probably wondering if thousands of fingers, styluses and makeshift pointing devices trawl through your content, case studies and event registration pages every day. We asked the same question about our clients’ websites: is there enough mobile traffic to justify the cost of developing a mobile website?

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