Dehra Sweet - Digital Marketing

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟

I will be finishing up a long term contract at the end of the Summer and will be available to take on new clients! 🙌 If you're a small business owner feeling overwhelmed or struggling to move your business forward, I'm here to help.

💼 Services I offer:

✨ Social Media Marketing

✨ Website Design

✨ SEO Ranking

Let’s work together to take your business to the next level! Reach out today and let's get started! 🚀

👍 Thanks for visiting my page. I am currently lucky enough to have a full complement of long term clients but if you are looking for help with a shorter term project I may be able to help so please feel free to message me.

Thank you, Dehra

Have been a bit MIA here over the last few months, and this sums up why! This is the current state of my home 🚽. Have had lots of work on, with some wonderful new projects including a wedding venue, a wedding planner, an author and a hotel.

At the same time we have been living in a (very lovely) caravan in Annsmuir Caravan Park since the week before school broke up. I've been working there with two kids and a beagle while the other half spends every second he isn't working at the house, and we still don't have a roof or walls, so we may be here some time.

So there hasn't been a lot of time for posting, but will try and get back in the game!

Need a bit of SEO help but a bit lost with it all? Maybe my updated download can help. With these 8 simple steps you can massively improve your website's visibility on Google and the other search engines, and help your customers find you.

Just visit https://www.dehrasweet.com/downloads-to-help-your-business/

Had a wonderful, if freezing, visit to Willowgate Activity Centre today. If you are local to Perth, get along and take advantage of their brilliant facilities. Kayaking, paddle boarding, archery, team building activities plus the most brilliant cafe in a log cabin!!

Thank you to the lovely Ed for featuring me on this week's Featured Freelancer. For any of you that are self employed/freelance the Freelance Heroes group is a fantastic resource and support, and had been invaluable to me over the last 18 months.

http://freelance-heroes.com/featured-freelancer-dehra-sweet-freelance-digital-marketer/

Featured Freelancer: Dehra Sweet, Freelance Digital Marketer - Freelance Heroes Each week, feedback tells us that these Featured Freelancer interviews are inspirational, and that they inspire freelancers to feel better about the decisions they make, as well as the reassurance that they’re not alone in how they feel about themselves and their business. I’m now going to do so...

What is my number 1 tip for getting an immediate SEO boost for your business? Set up your business on Google My Business.

This is the number one place to get a FREE listing for your business on and for Google Search in your local community. It was formerly known as Google Places and as the most popular Internet search engine in the UK you must get yourself listed here.

For more tips on SEO visit https://www.dehrasweet.com/blog/2018/1/16/8-ways-to-improve-your-sites-seo-and-rank-higher-in-google or to download my full guide click for more details.

How much trouble would I get into if I popped this baby goat into my bag??? * just kidding....

It is the second day of the school holidays here in Fife, and the children have already gone feral....

If you live anywhere near Dundee, or plan to visit soon, you must get yourself along to the new V&A Dundee. The building is amazing and I could have bought EVERYTHING in the gift shop.

I mean, how cute is this??? I'm trying to have a strategy meeting with a client and their adorable CED (Chief Executive Dog) is distracting me.

By the way, for any yoga fans out there, these yoga mats from Placemat are INCREDIBLE!!! Non slip, amazing quality and every time someone buys one they give a donation to a children's charity in that country. 🙏

During the process of setting up my own business, as well as helping lots of other people to set up their new businesses, I have come across a few companies that I think are brilliant and now use myself. They all have affiliate schemes, so have provided me with discount codes for new people who sign up with them. I generally get a discount from their service myself and the new sign up gets a discount too - so it works for everyone!

https://www.dehrasweet.com/discounts-that-will-save-your-business-money/

Did you know you can now link to # pages and other links in your profile??

See what this means at https://instagram-press.com/blog/2018/03/21/introducing-hashtag-and-profile-links-in-bio/

My final SEO TopTip is Write a blog.

I know, I know, its painful and no one ever reads them anyway – so why bother? Google, that’s why. Google needs to be offered freshness, and once you have your website as you like it, it is hard to keep adding new content. So instead provide freshness through your blog.

For tips on blog writing download my full guide https://buff.ly/2nrsHbL

Wow - so Instagram have released some exciting news today, especially for those of you with ecommerce websites. Thanks to Digital Bon Bons for the heads up!

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/03/20/instagram-introduces-dedicated-uk-shopping-channel

Instagram introduces dedicated UK shopping channel Instagram has launched a dedicated UK shopping channel in which businesses, led by test partners Marks & Spencer, Heidi Klein and mahabis, will be able to tag products within organic posts and purchase the item directly from the brand’s website.

So delighted to have been at Lindores Abbey Distillery tonight and learning about their very first release ~ . It's the most incredible place and as the spiritual home of whisky it's a place that every whisky lover must make a pilgrimage to. 🥃

http://lindoresabbeydistillery.com/shop/aqua-vitae/

For any fans visiting Falkland, you must check out Fayre Earth Gift Shop and these Sassenach bracelets 😍

All stocked up again with our beautiful rings and bangles for those sassenachs amongst you 🤩 by Holly Silver Jewellery made specially for us all 🧡 photo knicked from Rebecca 😉

This weeks SEO is regularly check when the last time your website was crawled by the Google bots! 🤖

It's important to keep checking this as you may then need to go back and re crawl 🕷️ your website through Google Search Console.

For steps on how to do this download my full guide https://buff.ly/2nrsHbL

New blog post up about how to stay productive and actually get more business when things are a bit slow!

https://www.dehrasweet.com/blog/tips-for-freelancers-when-you-are-quiet

Tips for freelancers when it’s a bit quiet on the work front Is your business a bit slow at the moment? Are you slightly panicking or do you see this as an opportunity to grow your business and focus on some admin? In this blog I give you some tips that will help you to be productive and bring in more work.

Good haul from Bowhouse Food Market today 🌶️🍸 (ate everything else). At what time on Mother's Day is it acceptable to open the Darnley's Gin?

Allan's Chilli Products

This weeks SEO TopTip is List your business on Business Directories

To improve your Google Page Rank, it's important to get good quality links to your website. A simple and very cheap way (free, except your time) is to add your site to various business directories. There are hundreds to choose from and you need to make sure you don’t end up on any dodgy ones, as you will be penalized by Google if they are not relevant, but I have listed some good ones on my download https://buff.ly/2nrsHbL

This is my actual face at the end of DAY 4 of the kids being off school due to . ❄️

If you too have had Giraffe face in the last week and have realised you need a bit of help with all the tasks on your small businesses To Do list 📝 then get in touch at buff.ly/2D031YN

Hope you have all enjoyed your snowday? I gave in and had a couple of hours break from work to do some sledging and snowman building and now can't feel my toes ☃️

This weeks SEO TopTip is Set up your business on Google My Business

This is the number one place to get a FREE listing for your business on and for Google Search in your local community. It was formerly known as Google Places and as the most popular Internet search engine in the UK you must get yourself listed here.

For more tips on SEO visit https://buff.ly/2namxvO or to download my full guide https://buff.ly/2nrsHbL

❄️ S N O W D A Y ❄️
Just received the dreaded text from the Council to say all schools are closed tomorrow.
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Trying to be all zen and joyful about an unexpected snow day but also wondering how on earth I'm going to get any work done!!!

Anyone have any tips for keeping two hyper boys entertained inside all day???

Wondering how to use or sign up for Vero? This article gives some great advice.

Vero wants to be the new Instagram. Here's how to actually use it Vero might be the new Instagram. But it's rather more complicated. The app has taken off over the last few days, with many hoping that it will solve the problems people have been having with the Facebook-owned app. Artists, celebrities and others are flocking to the new app – which isn't actually ...

In for a social media penny, in for a pound! I've joined the new app Vero that everyone is talking about. Anyone else using it yet?

This weeks SEO TopTip is set up Google Search Console

Another vital bit of free software from Google – without this set up, you are in trouble. Google Search Console helps you monitor and maintain your website’s presence in Google Search results.

Google effectively “ranks” your website by visiting it occasionally and giving it its own “score”. No one except for the top-secret developers at Google will be able to 100% tell you how this score or algorithm is worked out, but there are things you can do that will definitely help. The MAIN one though is to be set up with Google Search Console.

For more tips on SEO visit https://buff.ly/2n9IoTW or to download my full guide https://buff.ly/2nrsHbL